Abbas Calls Oslo Accords Dead and Blasts U.S.: ‘Damn Your Money!’

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Abbas Calls Oslo Accords Dead and Blasts U.S.: ‘Damn Your Money!’
cess is dead, as suggested by Abbas, it would follow
that the Palestinian Authority and its leadership are irrelevant." "It’s time," Mr. Revivi said, "to find alternative Palestinian leaders and alternative peace plans that focus on building bridges between real people on the ground instead of making people like Abbas rich and famous." that If the Oslo pro
He said, ‘We will not pay for the Palestinians because they stopped the negotiations.’ Where are the negotiations?" Mr. Abbas also confirmed a recent New York Times report
that the Palestinians had been told they would be offered the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Abu Dis, which they already control, as the capital of a future state.
14, 2018
RAMALLAH, West Bank — President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority said on Sunday
that Israel had killed the Oslo Accords and angrily assailed the Trump administration over its handling of the conflict.
This is what they’re offering now: Abu Dis." Mr. Abbas said
that Mr. Friedman, a staunch backer of Israeli settlements on the West Bank before becoming ambassador, had objected to the word occupation out of a conviction that Israel could not occupy its own land, and had asked the State Department to avoid using the word.
that I hope she hears me,
Testing his audience’s attention, Mr. Abbas also gave a lengthy history lecture reaching back to the 17th century, saying
that Oliver Cromwell had first proposed shipping European Jews to the Holy Land, before tracing the beginning of Zionism to what he called the 19th-century journalist and activist Theodor Herzl’s efforts to "wipe out Palestinians from Palestine." "This is a colonial enterprise that has nothing to do with Jewishness," Mr. Abbas said.