The PA president responded with egregious lies and hostility in response to Prime Minister Lapid's call for peace talks that would culminate in a two-state solution to the conflict.
To read any of the reports by The NY Times, BBC, The Guardian, Washington Post, Reuters or AP, one could be forgiven for thinking that Palestinian worshipers were severely mistreated by Israeli security forces.
'After canceling the Palestinian elections because his Fatah party faced certain defeat, Abbas was at his lowest popularity ever... He was desperate to redirect Palestinian wrath from him to Israel.'
With polls showing a lack of faith by Palestinians in their leaders, PA leader Mahmoud Abbas is expected to use Jerusalem as the excuse to cancel the long-awaited elections.
The message the Palestinian leadership is sending to its people is: A Palestinian convicted of financial corruption is nowhere near as worthy of public office as one who murders Jews and masterminds terrorist attacks.
Jibril Rajoub, Israel's potential future Palestinian 'peace partner', claimed Israelis 'have exploited the issue of the Holocaust' and 'what is happening in Palestine is a second Holocaust.'
Human rights violations are regularly ignored by the international community when they are perpetrated by Palestinians against Palestinians and lack an anti-Israel angle.
For over a decade there’s been great internal strife among Fatah and the Palestinian Authority as to who will succeed current PA President Mahmoud Abbas.
Palestinian rivals Hamas and Fatah are gearing up for their first contest at the polls since 2006 — a vote on October 8 for mayors and local councils in 425 communities in Judea and Samaria and Gaza Strip.
Instead of calling for a two-state solution, the world should demand that Abbas and his Fatah faction get their acts together and include Israel in the show.
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