How about NO, Fuck Off?[JPost] "A one-state solution, an apartheid state... is something neither, we nor the entire world would accept. A one-state solution will only perpetuate the conflict," Abbas said.
The Biden administration must, rescind the 1987 US determination that the Palestine Liberation Organization is a terror group, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas told the annual J Street Conference, as he spoke of the steps to re-establish ties between Washington and Ramallah.
| The far left J Street lobby group was founded and funded by the Soros team in late 2007 to provide a claimed Jewish but functionally pro-Palestinian/anti-Israel alternative to AIPAC for the Obama administration and fellow traveling Progressive Democrats. Fortunately, J Street is too far left and too anti-Israel to be heeded by even liberal-oriented American Jewish organizations. |
He explained that ties between the PA and the US had been severed when former US President Donald Trump was in the White House, but that the PA now sought to open a new page with the Biden administration.
"However, this requires the elimination of some obstacles, most important of which is removing the PLO name from the terrorism list pursuant to the Congress Anti-Terrorist Act of 1987," Abbas said as he referenced the legislation that marked the PLO as a terror group.
Most American presidents until Trump had waived the act, thereby allowing for ties between the PLO and the US. Rather than reinstate the waiver, Abbas wants the act to be rescinded.
He asked J Street to help the PA sway the Biden administration and the US Congress "to repeal all laws that block the road toward enhancing Palestinian-US relations."
Abbas appeared to reference laws put in place during the Trump administration to prevent direct financial assistance to the PA from the American government as long as the PA provided monthly stipends to jailed terrorists and to families of terrorists.
"On our part, we will remove all obstacles to achieve this goal. The continuity of these laws is frustrating and un-constructive," Abbas said.
Three Israeli left-wing party leaders address J Street on first day of “dovish” lobby’s conference
| Scare quotes mine. On the other side is not anything like dovish. |
| ...Socialist... |
| ...Social Democrat Green... |
| ...Arab-Israeli umbrella party minus the Muslim Brotherhood party, which ran separately... |
Each of the party leaders expressed their support, to varying degrees, for Israel to return to negotiations with the Paleostinians to achieve a two-state solution. However,
a clean conscience makes a soft pillow...
they all recognized that the current political dynamics will make such a reality very difficult to achieve.
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