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(68,868 posts) Tue Sep 29, 2015, 12:07 AM Sep 2015

Abbas adviser suggests US pressured Palestinian leader to nix UN speech 'bombshell' [View all]

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is planning no surprises in his speech before the UN General Assembly on Wednesday, a senior Palestinian official said on Monday.

Mahmoud Habbash, Abbas’s adviser on religious affairs, hinted that the PA president has come under pressure from the US to refrain from making dramatic announcements during his speech.

Habbash said that Abbas and US Secretary of State John Kerry held “difficult” talks in New York last weekend during which they discussed the PA president’s threat to drop a bombshell at the end of his speech.

http://m.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Abbas-adviser-suggests-Palestinian-leader-pressured-by-US-to-nix-UN-speech-bombshell-419328#article=6017ODQ0QzNFODI2QjZCMTcxMEQzREFFQTkwOEJFQzlCNEU=

That's code for "the US threatened Abbas if he did anything other than continue to serve faithfully as Israel's rent-a-cop."

He's Netanyahu's poodle.

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Abbas adviser suggests US pressured Palestinian leader to nix UN speech 'bombshell' [View all] geek tragedy Sep 2015 OP

Abbas is Netanyahu's poodle? oberliner Sep 2015 #1

That presumes the existence of Palestinian leaders. geek tragedy Sep 2015 #3

The Palestinian Legislative Council has 132 members oberliner Sep 2015 #10

No, none. geek tragedy Sep 2015 #12

Do you mean Marwan Barghouti? oberliner Sep 2015 #17

a man who refused to conduct his own defense and who has repeatedly and publicly geek tragedy Sep 2015 #22

That's a lie oberliner Sep 2015 #26

the language you quote does not support your claims nt geek tragedy Sep 2015 #29

"So civilians are targets? If they are part of the occupation, yes." oberliner Sep 2015 #34

he's not in prison for acts directed against settlers geek tragedy Sep 2015 #36

That's true oberliner Sep 2015 #42

Here is what Marwan said about attacks on civilian azurnoir Sep 2015 #35

Wikipedia to the rescue! oberliner Sep 2015 #44

here is the interview Marwan was speaking solely of settlers ya know the civilians who sport M-16's azurnoir Sep 2015 #49

In your world Marwan is a pacifist and Bernie is anti Israel? King_David Sep 2015 #60

I've said neither have I? but I see you've taken this opportunity to misrepresent what I've said azurnoir Sep 2015 #61

The New Mandela Israeli Sep 2015 #62

yep and Mandela wasn't strictly a pacifist either azurnoir Sep 2015 #63

As Geek mentions, lead to where? Scootaloo Sep 2015 #5

There are dozens of democratically elected Palestinian legislators oberliner Sep 2015 #11

Palestinian leaders have two possible paths: geek tragedy Sep 2015 #13

The Geneva Initiative is a third path - partnering with their Israeli counterparts who seek peace oberliner Sep 2015 #15

not a single Israeli on that list has an ounce of authority to do anything geek tragedy Sep 2015 #18

Big change usually happens from the bottom up, not from the top down oberliner Sep 2015 #21

We're past the "clap louder for Tinkerbell" stage. The rightwing in Israel has won, the debate is geek tragedy Sep 2015 #24

Nothing that you've written here is correct (thankfully) oberliner Sep 2015 #37

the two-state solution is a pollitical dodge at this point--a way for people to avoid geek tragedy Sep 2015 #38

Weird that I have to argue Bernie Sanders's positions with someone who has a Bernie Sanders avatar oberliner Sep 2015 #41

I'm not going to agree with any candidate on every issue. geek tragedy Sep 2015 #43

On what other issues do you disagree with Bernie Sanders? oberliner Sep 2015 #45

I don't know what he really thinks about I/P what he says is mostly platitudes. geek tragedy Sep 2015 #46

He says exactly what he really thinks about I/P oberliner Sep 2015 #47

his sentiments are noble, and the two-state solution would have been a good idea to pursue geek tragedy Sep 2015 #48

So the answer is to just give up and let the extremists win? oberliner Sep 2015 #50

the extremists won. it's past tense. geek tragedy Sep 2015 #51

Do you remember when George W Bush was president? oberliner Sep 2015 #59

this is about facts on the ground. geek tragedy Sep 2015 #64

Netanyahu barely squeaked out a win oberliner Sep 2015 #65

so you think SoS Kerry threatened Abbas? Mosby Sep 2015 #2

Yes, and yes, and yes, ideally. nt geek tragedy Sep 2015 #4

Probably Scootaloo Sep 2015 #6

your comparing prayer to killing an animal Mosby Sep 2015 #7

Modern blot does not involve animal sacrifice Scootaloo Sep 2015 #8

Jews and Christians are not asking to pray inside the alaksa mosque. Mosby Sep 2015 #40

Yes, sometimes faiths share space Scootaloo Sep 2015 #53

sure, but the Temple Mount is only administered by the wakf Mosby Sep 2015 #54

That's some tortured logic right there. Scootaloo Sep 2015 #55

I don't agree with most of what you wrote Mosby Sep 2015 #56

Semi-related subject change... Scootaloo Sep 2015 #57

Jews are not asking to walk into a mosque oberliner Sep 2015 #23

Praying outdoors is easy. Scootaloo Sep 2015 #58

I can't keep up with the "memes" of the day.. King_David Sep 2015 #9

It's really pretty simple: America is the Great Satan, Israel is the little satan. Fozzledick Sep 2015 #14

Yes , I think that sums it up... Nicely. nt King_David Sep 2015 #16

Seems like it's the other way around for most folks oberliner Sep 2015 #19

The strategy is to focus on the smaller, more unpopular target Fozzledick Sep 2015 #27

so now you're smearing everyone who criticizes Israel here as anti-American? geek tragedy Sep 2015 #20

"Team Cheney/Netanyahu" - Excellent example! Fozzledick Sep 2015 #25

Well, no, unlike you I view those two as representing the very worst. geek tragedy Sep 2015 #28

It's not that I have nothing bad to say about you. Fozzledick Sep 2015 #30

all you do here is insult opponents of the rightwing agenda. geek tragedy Sep 2015 #31

I find your claim that peace is a "rightwing agenda" most revealing Fozzledick Sep 2015 #32

no one here is "promoting a terrorist agenda" geek tragedy Sep 2015 #33

I think you've demonstrated my original points very well. Thank you! Fozzledick Sep 2015 #39

Indeed, they have. grossproffit Sep 2015 #52