web analytics
May 22, 2013 /13 Sivan, 5773
At a Glance ▼
News
Sponsored Post
The Tosfos Yomtov was convinced that the death of 300,000 –600,000 Jews during the Chmielnicki massacres of 1648-49 were because of improper Tefila. Communicated: Tefilla

Chillul Tefila Bifarhesia, as well as halachicly challenged verbiage and dress, are external manifestations of a critical lack of personal yiras shomayim which has lethal consequences.



ONE MAN TWO VIEWS

A Flip-Flopping Mahmoud Abbas Fails to Insert 2-State Solution in Israeli Elections (Video)

For all intents and purposes, the president of the PA was giving up on the Palestinian right of return to pre-1967 Israel.

Latest update: November 6th, 2012
tell a friend
PA President Mahmoud Abbas speaking to Channel 2 TV.

PA President Mahmoud Abbas speaking to Channel 2 TV.
Photo Credit: Screen shot

It began with the fact that no one in Israel’s election campaigns has been talking or even mentioning the 2-state solution and the Palestinians as a serious part of the national debate. Everyone, including left wing parties like Meretz and Labor, are talking about social justice, equal share in the national burden, Iran – the Palestinians are all but forgotten.

In an attempt to reignite this topic in the Jewish marketplace of ideas, slogans, and points of contention, PA President Mahmoud Abbas sat down to a serious, no-holds-barred interview with Israel’s Channel 2 TV’s Udi Segal, which was broadcast Friday night.

In that interview, Abbas declared that, as long as he is in charge, there won’t be an armed third Intifada, and, even more striking, that, as a native of the city of Tzfat (Safed), he would love to visit there, but does not expect to return to live there – it is strictly Israel.

We’re enclosing the video, in which the anchorman’s intro is in Hebrew, Segal’s questions are in English, and Abbas starts off with answers in Arabic (with Hebrew subtitles) but then switches to English. I recommend that you endure these language difficulties, to see for yourselves just how emphatic the Palestinian president is about those points.

On the question about living in Safed, Abbas tells Segal: “I visited Safed before once. But I want to see Safed. It’s my right to see it, but not to live there. Palestine now for me is ’67 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital. This is now and forever … This is Palestine for me. I am a refugee, but I am living in Ramallah. I believe that the West Bank and Gaza is Palestine and the other parts are Israel.”

For all intents and purposes, the president of the PA was giving up on the Palestinian right of return to pre-1967 Israel. It’s huge, since the right of return was one of the issues that broke the 2000 Camp David deal between Ehud Barak and Yassir Arafat.

That was on Friday.

Israeli President Shimon Peres was ecstatic in praising Abbas as a courageous partner for peace. He told the press on Saturday that Abbas’s “courageous words prove that Israel has a real partner for peace. These are significant words … We must all treat them with the utmost respect.”

In other words, the Palestinian state is not a dead and gone issue, it is very much alive, kindly start talking about it to the voter, complete with discussions of settlement freezes and redrafting the zone where Jews may choose to live in their homeland.

It could be trouble, if not for the old principle coined by the late Abba Eben, about how the Arabs never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine leader Rabah Mhanna had a radically different take on the Abbas interview. “Abbas doesn’t have the right to surrender on these principles,” he told Reuters. “Abbas with his remarks lives in a dreamland and tries to beg for the American and Israeli position to hope to gain something.”

Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri also denounced Abbas, saying “no Palestinian would accept ceding the right of our people to return to homes, villages and towns from which they were displaced.”

“If Abu Mazen (Abbas’s nom de guerre) does not want Safed, Safed would be honored not to host people like him,” Abu Zuhri added.

On Saturday, Fatah leader in Gaza Yahya Rabah said that the Palestinian UN bid for non-member status does not affect the right of return for Palestinian refugees, never mind what Abbas was telling Channel 2.

Rabah told Ma’an that the Palestinian Authority is seeking recognition as a state under occupation, pointing out that the right of return is enshrined under article 11 of UN resolution 194.

The resolution states that Palestinian refugees should be allowed to return to their homes and compensation must be paid to those that choose not to, Rabah said.

Of course, that resolution is more than 60 years old, so it stands to reason that those displaced Palestinians have, for the most part, been displaced to a better (or worse) world, and that 194 does not speak of inherited refugee rights. UN 194:11 reads:

Article 11

tell a friend

About the Author: JewishPress.com Senior Internet Editor Yori Yanover has been a working journalist since age 17, before he enlisted and worked for Ba'Machane Nachal. Since then he has worked for Israel Shelanu, the US supplement of Yedioth, JCN18.com, USAJewish.com, Lubavitch News Service, Arutz 7 (as DJ on the high seas), and the Grand Street News. He has published two fun books: The Cabalist's Daughter: A Novel of Practical Messianic Redemption, and How Would God REALLY Vote.


You might also be interested in:


no comments

You must log in to post a comment.

No Responses to “A Flip-Flopping Mahmoud Abbas Fails to Insert 2-State Solution in Israeli Elections (Video)”

  1. Anonymous says:
    November 4, 2012 at 4:38 PM

    In Ukraine they are finishing counting their vote while opposition is correctly claiming a fraud. The kind and cause of this fraud can be better understood looking on century old case of Sigismund von Unruh.

    While both Israeli and American nations are still before the vote. Sigismund case has again returned to the streets of Brussels , heart of Europe.

    But for Zion at the East things on the street and in governmental cabinets are quite same. We are easily kicked out, when Israel turns hostile trying to commit national suicide. Something that EU shall and must be preventing. Even if our friends are not able to understand this…

    More: http://lnk.ms/dMMbq

  2. Liad Bar-el says:
    November 5, 2012 at 10:09 AM

    According to the news, this was only a ploy to make the Likud look bad so as to increase support for labor. According to polls, labor has now obtained more seats.

SocialTwist Tell-a-Friend

Current Top Story
Rep Weiner's Anti-GOP Rant
Why Weiner’s Entry Is Bad News for Both Bills
Latest News Stories
News → News Briefs

Rep. Jerrold Nadler (NY-10) on Wednesday responded to the withholding of the Leahy Amendment to protect LGBT families in immigration reform legislation: “As the House sponsor of the Uniting American Families Act (UAFA), I am extremely disappointed that an amendment to ensure equal treatment for same-sex, bi-national couples was withheld, without a vote, during the [...]

News → Antisemitism

Two New Jersey men, indicted in March for arson and attempted murder and terrorism, pleaded not guilt in a New Jersey court this week. Anthony Graziano of Lodi and Aakash Dalal of New Brunswick, both 21, were arrested after the northern New Jersey’s Bergen County bombings, one of which injured Beth El Congregation Rabbi Nosson [...]

News → Europe

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has a busy day Thursday and is scheduled to talk with two foreign ministers and former French President Nicolas Sarkozy in a four-hour time span. His office announced he will welcome U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry at 10:15, and the American efforts to bring Prime Minister Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority [...]

News → Iran

Iran will be able top produce 30 nuclear bombs a year and 100 within the decade, Minister of Strategy, Intelligence and International Relations Affairs Yuval Steinitz told a defense conference this week. He told the IsraelDefense C5I Conference that Iran could reach the capability of operating 54,000 centrifuges. “Iran is not North Korea or Pakistan [...]

News → Eye on Palestine

Israeli soldiers on Tuesday arrested three Palestinian Authority security officers who murdered 24-year-old Ben-Yosef Livnat at Joseph’s Tomb two years ago but spent only one year in a PA jail before being freed. An IDF investigation of the incident confirmed Palestinian Authority claims that Livnat and other Jews tried to enter the holy Jewish site [...]

News → Israel

The shekel-dollar rate has soared 4 percent in the past two weeks, with the latest jump today (Wednesday) prompted by expectations that the Bank of Israel will lower the interest rate again in June. The rate crossed the level of 3.69 shekels to the dollar on Wednesday after having dropped under 3.55 shekels to the [...]

News → Hamas

The annual Home Front Drill is quite routine. This year there are more reasons for Israelis to take it more seriously, such as Assad, Hezbollah and chemical weapons, for starters. Hope for the best.

News → Middle East

JERUSALEM – As Shiite Hizbullah and Sunni anti-Syrian government rebels battle across Syria and Lebanon, and Egyptian and Jordanian forces confront al Qaeda terrorists in the Sinai and southern Jordan, the emir of Qatar blamed Israel for the chaos that threatens to plunge the entire region into war.

News → Holocaust

WASHINGTON – Poland is a stalwart American ally in Europe, a bulwark against an increasingly belligerent Russia and, with the recent opening of a major new Warsaw museum, is enjoying a flush of accolades for its belated embrace of its Jewish roots.

News → Archaeology

Israelis are familiar with archaeological finds dating back centuries and sometimes thousands of years. Now the world’s most popular museum, the Louvre, exhibits a 1,700-year-old mosaic found in Lod.

News → Jewish

The LA mayoral race was between a man with a Jewish mother and a woman married to a Jew.

News → News Briefs

At the inaugural Values Network Gala on June 4, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach will be honoring Holocaust survivor Professor Elie Wiesel, renowned philanthropists Dr. Miriam and Sheldon Adelson and influential health advocate Dr. Mehmet Oz for their outstanding work as champions for Jewish and human values. Proceeds from the dinner, to be held at the New [...]

News → News Briefs

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad rejected a decision by election overseers to disqualify his own top aide, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, from the June 14 presidential vote in Iran as an act of “oppression” and threatened to take the case to the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, AP reported. His comments were posted Wednesday on his website [...]

News → News Briefs

An Israeli soldier was killed in a mine explosion in the southern Golan Heights. The soldier was taking part Tuesday in a minefield-clearing operation, according to the Israel Defense Forces, and was killed when an old anti-tank mine exploded. Two other soldiers were injured. The mine reportedly was cleared and marked before it exploded. The [...]

News → Holocaust

“A majority of the claims made by the person who wrote the anonymous letter were refuted by Mr. Domnitser,” the report said.

News → Local

An April 19, 2013 Quinnipiac University survey gives Weiner 15 percent of Democratic primary voters.

More Articles from Yori Yanover
Inner Peace with High Power Rifle
News → Photos

I often think that a sharpshooter must be the calmest and most focused person. The Reconnaissance Platoon of the 601st Brigade is a small unit in the Combat Engineering Corps. Earlier this year, they held an exercise in a densely wooded area, where they practiced combat fighting, reconnaissance and evacuating injured soldiers. They also practiced [...]

News → Global

The mission was originally supposed to arrive in Jerusalem on Monday.

News → Israel → IDF

The patrol shot back and hit the source of the fire.

News → Photos

This young Jewish man from the Jewish outpost of Mitzpe Yitzhar in Judea and Samaria, has been practicing swinging his slingshot, in the manner of the original Jewish sling shooter, the young David son of Jesse. I’ve always been bothered by images of young Arabs swinging their slingshots at IDF soldiers – it’s about time [...]

Media → Video Picks

I figured, if anyone out there is looking for proper instructions on this subject matter, given with a British accent – we’re here to help. Dedicated to the folks at Mitzpe Yitzhar…

News → Israel

A group of consumers headed by a Haredi woman is looking to sue Tnuva for consumer anguish.

Media → Video Picks

I guess we’re in the mood for Jewish farming, seeing as we got the sheep shearing image in the photo of the day (Synergy!). A Day in Sakon Nakhon: My Life as a Jewish Rice Farmer – this is the trailer, go here for the full, 12 minute movie. Have fun, and watch out for [...]

    Latest Poll

    Which is the most beautiful location in Jerusalem?









    View Results

    Loading ... Loading ...

Printed from: http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/a-flip-flopping-mahmoud-abbas-fails-to-insert-2-state-solution-in-israeli-elections-video/2012/11/04/

Scan this QR code to visit this page online:

No related posts.

Close