Shalom slams Abbas' stances, compares them to Arafat

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Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom Monday slammed Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, saying Israel could not ignore the "harsh statements" Abbas made at campaign kickoff speech at the weekend, and comparing his views to those of the late Yasser Arafat.


Shalom said Israel would do all it could to foster January 9 Palestinian elections to elect a successor to the late Palestinian Authority chairman, but that it would expect immediate action from an elected Palestinian Authority government in curbing terrorism and incitement.

In a Ramallah campaign speech on Saturday, Abbas declared that peace will not come until Israel takes down all settlements, returns to the pre-1967 war borders, accepts a Palestinian state with its capital in Jerusalem, accepts the return of Palestinian refugees and releases all Palestinian prisoners including Marwan Barghouti.

"At a time when there is perhaps a great atmosphere of hope here in the region and in the world as a whole, harsh statements such as these are not encouraging," Shalom told Israel Radio. "This speech does not bode well."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/519199.html
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Soooooo....let us review...Israel

takes down all settlements
returns to the pre-1967 war borders
accepts a Palestinian state with its capital in Jerusalem
accepts the return of Palestinian refugees
releases all Palestinian prisoners including Marwan Barghouti

The PA ????.....:shrug:

I was wrong...Abbas is not a jerk...he's psychotic.