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Source: https://www.jns.org/opinion/mahmoud-abbass-un-speech-illustrates-why-he-is-no-partner-for-peace/
Mahmoud Abbas' UN Speech Illustrates Why He Is No Partner for Peace
(JNS) Lt.-Col. (res.) Maurice Hirsch - The recent speech by Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas before the UN General Assembly confirms why he is not a partner for peace. Abbas started his speech by referring to the creation of the State of Israel in 1948 as a "catastrophe." For Abbas and the PA, the problem is not the Israeli settlements built in Judea and Samaria after the 1967 Six-Day War, but rather the very existence of Israel. Abbas demands the "return" of millions of Palestinians who have never set foot in Israel. He is really saying that Israel should commit national demographic suicide and agree to its own democratic destruction. Despite multiple requirements in the Oslo Accords that the Palestinians prevent terror, Abbas justified the PA's "Pay-to-Slay" terror-reward policy. The PA spends millions on monthly payments to imprisoned terrorists, released terrorists, wounded terrorists, and the families of dead terrorists, including the families of murderers and suicide bombers. The writer, director of legal strategies for Palestinian Media Watch, served for 19 years in the IDF Military Advocate General Corps.