PA Chairman Abbas: "If all of you [Arab States] will fight Israel, we are in favor. Palestinians will not fight alone because they don't have the ability."Just what part of the word peace doesn't Abbas understand?
The official Palestinian Authority daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, reports that PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas said that he supports negotiations with Israel today because it is the only option. However, as to the military option, Abbas said: "If you [Arab states] want war, and if all of you will fight Israel, we are in favor. But the Palestinians will not fight alone because they don't have the ability to do it."
The PA daily reports that Abbas said this at a meeting with writers and journalists in the home of the Palestinian Ambassador to Jordan.
The following is the transcript from the official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida:
"'We don't accept the statement [of Hamas]: a [Palestinian] state of resistance and refusal. What we hear from everyone is that the basis is negotiations, at a time that the entire world agrees about this, despite the absence of other options, we either have negotiations or no negotiations, what has put Israel in the corner.[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida (Fatah), July 6, 2010]
We are unable to confront Israel militarily, and this point was discussed at the Arab League Summit in March in Sirt (Libya). There I turned to the Arab States and I said: 'If you want war, and if all of you will fight Israel, we are in favor. But the Palestinians will not fight alone because they don't have the ability to do it.' He [Abbas] said: 'The West Bank was completely destroyed and we will not agree that it will be destroyed again,' in addition to 'the inability to confront Israel militarily.'"
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The Palestinians have not changed their core philosophy. The reason as Abu Bluff admitted, they don't carry it out is because they lack the means and the strength to do it.
It only underscores the reality there is no Palestinian peace partner.
It only underscores the reality there is no Palestinian peace partner.
But the mentality of the US--and the world--is that some kind of movement, any kind of movement, is necessary.
The thought of postponing talks till there is someone who has the authority to deal is anathema to them.
And so the only concession demanded from Abbas is not to do something, but to stop doing something: stop inciting hatred against Israel.
And he can't even do that!
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