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by Bassam Tawil • August 27, 2018
at 5:00 am
- It is clear that the
Palestinian boycott of the US administration did not include
receiving funds from the Americans.
- The Palestinians are
entitled to voice their anger at the US. However, if they are
so fed up with the US that they are even boycotting US
administration officials, why are they demanding that the
Americans continue to supply them with hundreds of millions of
dollars each year?
- The Palestinians are
trying to blackmail the US by claiming, absurdly, that the
recent US decisions jeopardize the two-state solution and
prospects for peace in the Middle East. These are the very
Palestinians, however, who have refused to resume peace talks
with Israel for the past four years, since long before Trump
was elected as president.
Palestinian
Authority President Mahmoud Abbas called David Friedman, the US
Ambassador to Israel, a "son of a dog" in a televised
speech, on March 19, 2018. (Image source: MEMRI video screenshot)
The question of Palestinian responsiveness is once
again on display as Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud
Abbas and his senior officials in Ramallah step up their verbal
attacks on the US administration after its decision to cut $200
million in American financial aid to the Palestinians.
Abbas and the PA leadership are again behaving like
spoiled, angry children whose candy has been taken away from them,
hurling abuse at the Trump administration. Recall that earlier this
year, Abbas called US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman a
"son of a dog."
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