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Israel: World Needs to See Through Abbas' "Charade"
(Jerusalem Post) Herb Keinon - The international community should end the "charade" whereby PA President Mahmoud Abbas refuses to negotiate with Israel, deliberately creates a crisis, adds to the crisis through inflammatory rhetoric, and then pleads to the world to "save us," a senior government official said on Wednesday night. He said the world should finally hold Abbas "accountable" for his behavior. Abbas "has been using terrible language, inciting language that is encouraging violence," the official said. "I think that European governments that are all too quick to criticize Israel should be passing a message on to Abbas and asking if he is doing everything he can to calm things down." Leaders in the Arab and Islamic world who talk about a supposed threat to the Aksa Mosque are "simply conducting incitement," the official added. "There is no such threat. The Israeli government has reiterated over and over that the status quo will be scrupulously upheld."