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In character, despot Abbas distances himself from upcoming US peace initiative

Ignoring that Russia was the first to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, Palestinian autocrat Abbas tells the French President in Paris that Palestinians can no longer accept any US-led initiative, since President Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

By Reuters and Elior Levy

 

The United States has “disqualified” itself from the Middle East peace process due to its recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, said Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday.

“The United States are no longer an honest mediator in the peace process, we will not accept any plan put forward by the United States because of this partisan spirit,” said Abbas, speaking through a translator at a joint news briefing in Paris with French President Emmanuel Macron. Continue Reading »

Abbas tells French Senate: PA may end Security Cooperation over Israel’s ‘colonization’

 

In yet another display of frustration, PA autocrat Mahmoud Abbas delivers another of his dramatic threats, this time to his closest supporter, the French government.

BY REUTERS

 

PARIS – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said on Wednesday he could be forced to suspend security cooperation with Israel if the ramp-up of Israeli settlements continued.

Francois Hollande and Abbas – Arab media

“If the colonization continues, I would have no other choice, it would not be my fault,” Abbas told France’s Senate during a visit to Paris.

On Tuesday, he met President Francois Hollande, who voiced concern over a law retroactively legalizing about 4,000 settler homes built on privately owned Palestinian land in the West Bank. Continue Reading »