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Source: http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4001/abbas-un-speech
What Abbas Missed in His UN Speech
(Gatestone Institute) Khaled Abu Toameh - Last week Mohamed Shtayyeh, a member of the Fatah Central Committee, revealed that 250,000 out of the 600,000 Palestinians in Syria have been forced to flee their homes since the beginning of the conflict there. Yet in his speech at the UN General Assembly, PA President Mahmoud Abbas largely ignored the plight of these Palestinians, choosing instead to direct his criticism at Israel. Nor did he utter a word about Lebanese and Egyptian mistreatment of Palestinian refugees, or the fact that nearly 2,000 Palestinians have been killed and thousands injured in Syria in the past two years. Abbas' speech showed that the Palestinian Authority leadership considers construction of new housing units in Jerusalem neighborhoods as being more serious than the displacement of a quarter million Palestinians.