(Times of Israel) Rebecca Shimoni Stoil - Strategic Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz, responding to PA President Abbas' UN speech, said "the speech was not a speech of peace. Instead of condemning terror, it condemns those who struggle against terror....Instead of recognizing Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state, he speaks about the establishment of Israel as a tragedy." Steinitz accused the Palestinian leader of "lying to the world when he said that in 1948 and in 1967, Israel attacked the Palestinians when in fact, the opposite was true." Steinitz, who was not present for Abbas' speech Thursday, rejected accusations that the Israeli delegation had boycotted the address, saying that the Jewish holiday of Simhat Torah had taken precedence.
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