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“What happened is a crime by all means. We cannot sit idle and silent [after] this crime,” Abbas said on PA TV. “for that, this leadership is meeting now to decide what it wants, and I say honestly all options are open for discussion and for implementation. … We don’t have any other solutions.”
It is very possible that Abu Mazen, as he is known among Arabs, has been waiting for just such an opportunity for a long time.
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How else could he disentangle himself from “previous agreements and commitments” to cooperate peacefully with Israel, which he signed on behalf the PA under U.S. pressure for so many years?
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