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Abbas Threatens Legal, Diplomatic Action Against Israel Settlements
2014-01-01
[Ynet] Paleostinian president the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
threatened diplomatic and legal action against the "cancer" of Israeli settlement building, a day ahead of a visit by US Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry
Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State...
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"We will not remain patient as the settlement cancer spreads, especially in (east) Jerusalem, and we will use our right as a UN observer state by taking political, diplomatic and legal action to stop it," he said during a speech in Ramallah to mark the 49th anniversary of the founding of the Fatah party.
As an "observer state" do they have any rights? De facto, of course the world will let them do as they please, using it as an excuse to browbeat Israel, but that's a different question.
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