UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas declares that he is no longer bound by agreements signed with Israel.
In a speech before the United Nations General Assembly, he says that as Israel’s refusal to commit to the agreements signed “render us an authority without real powers.”
Given that, Abbas says, “we cannot continue to be bound by these agreements.”
It was Abbas’ most serious warning yet to Israel that he might walk away from engagement with Israel and dissolve the Palestinian Authority. He stopped short of accompanying his threat with a deadline.
He had threatened to drop a “bombshell” in the speech — prompting speculation he would sever ties with Israel over its settlement expansion and other hardline policies.
Here we go again.
I can just see the take on this now by the US State Department and AIPAC. “This gives support for our decision to violate the the agreement that we never had any intention of complying with from the beginning. We just can’t reason with these radical regimes!”
ISRAEL took a LaND without a PEOPLe, a deSERT, and MADE it BLOSSom. PALEstinIAns, WHO are ACTUALLY JOrdaNIAns wanted a PIECe of the aCTION aND INVAded ERETz ISRAEL in DROVEs anD INTIMIDate ISraeLIS with TERRor ROCks and their Menacing swARTHiness PROVING YOU Can’t bargain wiTH SHIFTY MUSLIn aRAbs!111!!!one!!1!!!
Approx 1950 or thereabouts, the late Field Marshall Montgomery said this conflict would go on for 50 years.
Clearly, he was an optimist.
Or forever.