1-19-2018 Opinion Abbas Is Right. Why Does Israel Keep Saying He's Wrong? - Gideon Levy Ha’aretz

https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/abbas-is-right-why-does-israel-keep-saying-he-s-wrong-1.5744750

Abbas speaks the truth. Israel's comments against him aren't about reality— they're just nationalistic snarls Abbas Is Right. Why Does Israel Keep Saying He's Wrong? - Gideon Levy Ha'aretz

https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/abbas-is-right-why-does-israel-keep-saying-he-s-wrong-1.5744750

Abbas speaks the truth. Israel's comments against him aren't about reality— they're just nationalistic snarls ... The Balfour Declaration cannot be read differently. And what is more proper than to ask the British to apologize for it and now stand beside the Palestinians after all the years of being evicted and dispossessed, beginning with Balfour and continuing to this day?...The current government and its supporters objected to Oslo, so now they're offended when Abbas says it's over? Abbas told the truth…Abbas is far from being the perfect statesman. He's not a democrat. He's unpopular, perhaps corrupt, certainly pathetic in his insistence on the dead two-state solution. But he's the most peace-seeking, non-violent Palestinian statesman imaginable. This is why he is so dangerous to Israel. This is why Benjamin Netanyahu celebrated his speech, echoed by the national choir. Israel wants everyone to be Yahya Sinwar. It would make the occupation even more convenient.

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