(Gatestone Institute) Khaled Abu Toameh - On the eve of U.S. envoy Jason Greenblatt's visit to Ramallah last week, hundreds of Palestinians demonstrated in the city, calling on PA President Mahmoud Abbas to resign. At what has been described as the largest anti-Abbas demonstration in Ramallah in recent years, the protesters also condemned the PA's ongoing security cooperation with Israel and called for the abrogation of the Oslo Accords. The protest was also a cry for pursuing the armed struggle against Israel with further vigor. "No to peace and no to all the nonsense, we want bullets and rockets," some of the protesters chanted. In other words, Palestinians are trying extremely hard to get across their message: Israel is our enemy, not our peace partner. A large number of Palestinians see Abbas as a puppet in the hands of Israel and the U.S. In the long run, he would never be able to deliver on any peace process with Israel without the backing of his people. And his people have made their message of rejection - of him and of peace - clear as a bell.
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