“We have frankly said, and always will say: If there is an - TopicsExpress



          

“We have frankly said, and always will say: If there is an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital, we won’t agree to the presence of one Israeli in it,” Abbas says. Mahmoud_AbbasThis approach is not only dangerous; it also nullifies any possible good that could come out of the negotiations, observers maintain. “Abbas’ vision of peace in the Holy Land is duplicitous and repugnant and only serves to undermine Secretary of State Kerry’s peace initiative,” says Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder and dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. “The bitter irony is that Abbas has made a career out of rejecting Israel as a Jewish State, yet has the audacity to claim for himself that the future Palestinian state will be cleansed of Jews.”
Posted on: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 17:36:17 +0000

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