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Prominent Supporters of Peace Process Say Abbas Disqualified as Negotiating Partner
(JNS.org) Rafael Medoff - After PA President Abbas' speech on Jan. 14 in which he called Israel "a colonialist enterprise that has nothing to do with Judaism," the Israel Policy Forum (IPF), established by Israel's Labor party, declared that Abbas' "unhinged screed" makes it "impossible to view Abbas as a viable negotiating partner, when he continues to deny the right of the Jewish people to their own national movement and when he continues to insist that the basic recognition of a Jewish homeland is the original sin of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict." Rabbi Eric Yoffie, former president of the Union for Reform Judaism, said Abbas' statements "were outrageous, ignorant and insulting to Jews and civilized people everywhere," and demonstrate "that progress on the peace front is not possible at the moment."