Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas is continuing to try to retreat from comments he made last week indicating that the Palestinian right of return only extended to the 1967 borders, a comment which has sparked angry condemnations and Hamas a chance to score political points by lashing him.
Today Abbas disavowed his own comments, insisting “I have never and will never give up on the right of return,” and that his comments that he doesn’t have a right to live in Safed, the town inside Israel where he is from, is “a personal stance” that doesn’t mean anything.
His comments were seen by analysts as an attempt to be conciliatory with Israel, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has criticized Abbas for the comments at any rate, so it doesn’t seem this was successful.
Former Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, in comments aimed at criticizing Netanyahu for his position, seemed to make matters worse for Abbas, insisting the Palestinian leader has held essentially this position about the right of return since at least 2008.
Netanyahu and Lieberman will never cede an inch of land for national sovereignty for the Palestinians. They are totally opposed to the Palestinians upgrading their status at the UN.
The Palestine Papers made it perfectly clear that Abbas was abandoning all but a tiny token of return, and that was a headline then. It left the Israelis unmoved, specifically Livni unmoved, as per her comments recorded and reported in those papers.
Abbas has been compromised he? is not a leader at anything, not since he was in the shadows of the Fatah movement. Unwanted by the outside world and hypocritical towards his own people – what the F word is wrong with this kind of a person?
Israel wants to annex all of Palestinians land, if not Jordan and Syria as well, with their partners in west, like Tony Blair, Bill Clinton and other Neo Liberal Fascism in Europe including the Swedish vulture capitalism system helping out Israel to have Palestinians as their slaves, like the Europeans do with immigrants and war refugees all over Europe, they have had this plan from a long time ago and they are not going to give it up just because of…,