Abbas’s shameful behavior

Standing alongside Condoleezza Rice, the American Secretary of State, during their joint press conference in Jericho, Thursday, 30 November, Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas, declared that efforts to form a national unity government with Hamas reached a dead-end. He added in a threatening tone that he would soon take measures toward the formation of a new government, in lieu of the present one headed by Ismael Haniya, whose main task would be the lifting of the American-led, Israeli-enforced financial and economic blockade on the Palestinians. But Abbas’s really scandalous behaviour was his reported reference to a speech by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in southern Israel a few days earlier as "positive."...

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