Posted on 10/26/2009 4:26:22 PM PDT by SJackson
(IsraelNN.com) Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has sent multiple messages to United States President Barack Obama threatening to quit, Channel 10 news reported Monday night. Abbas blamed Israel and the U.S. for pushing him to desperation, saying negotiations with Israel were at a stand-still and Obama had “abandoned” him.
Abbas also mentioned the serious hit to his popularity caused by the delay of a United Nations vote on the Goldstone Report. The report accused Israel of war crimes in connection with the three-week Cast Lead counterterror offensive in Gaza.
Obama responded to the threats by calling Abbas and calming him, according to the report.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's spokesman said Monday night that Netanyahu could in no way be blamed for the standstill in Israel-PA talks. “Netanyahu has taken a serious of steps aimed at renewing the peace process, as the American government well knows,” he said. Unlike Netanyahu, Abbas and other PA leaders have taken an increasingly tough stance and added previously unheard-of preconditions to talks, he said.
"The prime minister calls on the Palestinians to renew negotiations immediately, without preconditions,” he concluded.
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Check the golf course...I’m sure you can find ObamaWoods out there somewhere.
"Abbas Threatens to Quit, Obama Steps In IT"
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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The prime minister calls on the Palestinians to renew negotiations immediately, without preconditions
Not fair, preconditions, aka Israeli concessions, is what Obama was about.
Let him quit then.
This one’s funnier. Has a kick due to the issues with the Swedish newspaper that published a blood libel against Israeli Jewry.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22CGlF7l5MI
Now this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG93iKvB1iM&NR=1
is all about Rahm Emmanuel (and it’s a doozy).
NObama probably wants the job- he needs Abbas to hold out until Jan 2013, when NObama will be looking for a new job.
NObama probably wants the job- he needs Abbas to hold out until Jan 2013, when NObama will be looking for a new job.
Really sad when our foreign policy activities come across like a bad sitcom script.
I thought that the normal way out of that job was feet-first.
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