JERUSALEM—Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority, but again delivered a stridently anti-Israel speech at the U.N. on Thursday, the place he also praised the anti-Israel protests all around the U.S. and condemned Washington for its give a dangle to of Israel.
Abbas, who supplied a 12-level knowing for a put up-war Gaza that requires a permanent dwell-fire, accused the Jewish remark of committing genocide, whereas calling for its expulsion from the U.N. and taking neutral at the Biden Administration for vetoing Security Council resolutions on the trouble, whereas supplying palms to the Israelis.
He charged the U.S. “furnished Israel with the lethal weapons that it frail to ruin thousands of innocent civilians, younger of us and ladies. And this further encouraged Israel to proceed with aggression.”
Abbas began his speech by questioning Israel’s legitimacy: “We is no longer going to trot away. We is no longer going to trot away. We is no longer going to trot away. Palestine is our remark of foundation. It is a ways the land of our fathers, our grandfathers. This can dwell ours. And if any person were to trot away, it’d be the occupying usurpers.”
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“Abbas spoke for 26 minutes and did no longer scream the word ‘Hamas’ as soon as. Since the bloodbath of October 7, Abbas has failed to sentence Hamas for his or her crimes in opposition to humanity,” Israel’s U.N. Ambassador Danny Danon charged in an announcement following the speech.
Yet whereas leaders from spherical the enviornment watched his UNGA speech, some critics whinge the 88-year-frail’s rule and domination of Palestinian politics in the West Monetary institution (known in Israel by its biblical identify of Judea and Samaria in Israel) has accomplished cramped for the Palestinian trigger.
Abbas was as soon as born Safed duing the British mandate length (now in Israel). His household fled to Syria when Arab armies invaded Israel to stop the establishment of the Jewish remark.
Abbas has been accused of rewarding Palestinian terrorism by skill of the gruesome “pay for ruin” machine that supports financial stipends for convicted Palestinian terrorists and their kinfolk.
He has also garnered a recognition over the decades as an anti-American agitator who stokes wild antisemitic conspiracy theories. Trusty last month, Abbas delivered a speech to the Turkish parliament, the place he launched that that “The US is the plague, and the plague is The US” and “We implement Shari’a law: victory or martyrdom.”
Asaf Romirowsky, govt director of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME), told Fox News Digital that “Mahmoud Abbas aka Arafat’s appointed successor after two decades has accomplished what Arafat hoped he would, that’s withhold a Palestinian stasis whereas at the same time refusing to root out the corruption all the blueprint thru the PA or fight terrorism. Extra, as he has shown all the blueprint thru his most recent speech in the Turkish Parliament, a clear allegiance to Hamas and an endorsement of 10/7, underscoring the consistent antisemitism of his leadership.”
Romirowsky added “And not utilizing a inheritor apparent, Abbas’s legacy, as was as soon as Arafat’s, is that of self-inflicted victimology whereas placing forward wealth on the assist of his get of us in the identify of the so-known as Palestinian battle.”
Fox News Digital reported quickly after Hamas slaughtered just about 1,200 of us in Israel on October 7, collectively with over 30 People, that the Abbas’ PA would possibly perchance per chance compensate convicted Hamas terrorists for his or her characteristic in the attack.
Kobi Michael, a senior researcher at the Institute for Nationwide Security Stories in Tel Aviv, told Fox News Digital the PA and Abbas “reproduction all the corruption, nepotism, and inefficiency of the Palestine Liberation Group” that was as soon as created by Arafat.
He mentioned “Abbas would now not settle for the final factual of the Jewish of us to self-choice, and therefore he doesn’t survey the factual of the remark of Israel to be a nation remark of the Jewish of us in any borders.”
Michael, who is affiliated with the Misgav Institute persevered, “He has no longer educated the younger know-how and has no longer educated PA officials for peace. On the contrary, Abbas has led and enabled the indoctrination toward hatred and toward delegitimization of the remark of Israel.”
Now not like the U.S.-designated terrorist movement, Hamas, Abbas and the PA are knowing to be to be slightly realistic, in line with about a Mideast observers.
In 2022, Fox News Digital reported Abbas issued a surprising diatribe in opposition to Israel in the German capital of Berlin, the place the Holocaust – the mass extermination of European Jewry – was as soon as organized, claiming that the Jewish remark has utilized “50 Holocausts.”
Abbas refused to make an apology (or assist in a skilled inquiry) in Berlin at the time of the Palestinian Murky September bloodbath of 11 Israeli athletes and a German police officer all the blueprint thru the 1972 Munich Olympics.
Fox News’ David Hammelburg contributed to this narrative.
