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2014-04-27 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Abbas Says Unity Government Will Reject Violence
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[An Nahar] Paleostinian president the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
said Saturday the new unity government he is set to head with the backing of Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, would reject violence and recognize Israel and existing agreements.
Israel, however, slammed his speech to the Paleostine Liberation Organization's Central Council as a "coup de grace" to the grinding of the peace processor.
The PLO body had convened to chart a course of action after Israel suspended U.S.-brokered peace talks in response to a reconciliation deal with the Islamist Hamas movement.
The agreement between the rival Paleostinian factions came as the United States and Israel had hoped to extend the faltering peace talks beyond their April 29 deadline.
Israel said it would not negotiate with a government backed by Hamas, the armed Islamist movement ruling the Gazoo Strip, which is pledged to the destruction of the Jewish state and has always rejected peace talks.
"The upcoming government will obey my policy," Abbas told the PLO council.
"I recognize Israel and reject violence and terrorism, and recognize international commitments."
He stressed that the new government itself would not be charged with negotiations, but rather the PLO which "represents the entire Paleostinian people".
Efforts to extend hitherto fruitless talks hit a wall last month when Israel refused to release a final batch of Paleostinian prisoners.
The Paleostinians retaliated by applying to adhere to 15 international treaties as Abbas listed conditions for extending the talks beyond the deadline.
He reiterated these conditions on Saturday, saying Israel must freeze settlement construction in the occupied West Bank and annexed east Jerusalem, free the prisoners and begin discussing the borders of a promised Paleostinian state.
Israel, which had already dismissed these same conditions, slammed his speech as tantamount to a "coup de grace to the grinding of the peace processor". 
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