... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...proposed Tuesday the creation of a multilateral international mechanism to broker an elusive Paleostinian-Israeli peace.
The mechanism would be borne out of an international conference to be held by mid-2018, Abbas said.
"We are ready to begin negotiations immediately in order to achieve the freedom and independence of our people," he said in remarks before the UN Security Council. "We are ready to undertake the longest journey."
Following U.S. President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
's controversial decision to recognize the contested city of Jerusalem as Israel's capital, Paleostinians have rejected Washington's role as a peace broker between the parties, and the plan Abbas proposed is intended as a replacement.
U.S. ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley
...Trump administration's ambassador to the UN. First woman to serve as Governor of South Carolina, and the second Indian-American governor in the country, after Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. At the age of 39, Haley was the youngest governor in the U.S., a distinction formerly held by Jindal. She is a Republican, which really grates on the Dems...shrugged off the proposal, saying the alternative "will get the Paleostinian people exactly nowhere.
"Our negotiators are sitting right here behind me, ready to talk. But we will not chase after you. The choice, Mr. president, is yours," she said, flanked by Jared Kushner, Trump's point person on the Mideast grinding of the peace processor.