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Instead of Making Peace, Abbas Is Talking to Hamas, Turkey and Qatar

(Gatestone Institute) Khaled Abu Toameh - PA President Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian leadership have, in the past few weeks, strongly come out against the peace deals signed between Israel, the UAE and Bahrain. Instead of talking to the Americans, the Israelis and Arabs who support the idea of making peace with Israel, Abbas is now talking to terrorist-promoting Hamas, Turkey and Qatar. A report in a Palestinian media outlet belonging to Abbas' arch-rival, Mohammed Dahlan, revealed that the Fatah delegation in Istanbul this month met with officials from Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), as well as Turkish and Qatari intelligence officers. According to the report, Abbas discussed ways of "coordinating positions to direct blows to the interests of the Arab countries, especially the Arab Gulf states and Egypt." The report also revealed that Qatar recently gave Abbas and some of his aides "more than $50 million for their personal bank accounts inside banks in Israel and the Palestinian Authority areas." A Syrian journalist based in the UAE, who calls herself Shukran, tweeted on Sep. 17: "My dear Palestinians: Your real enemy is in front of you; it is the corrupt Palestinian Authority....Check where did the sons of the leaders of the Palestinian Authority study?...They live in peace, stability, prosperity and luxury. Take a look at your own children. Your children who are instilled with hatred....We want to live and raise our children in peace and security. We tried wars, now we want to try peace."
2020-10-19 00:00:00
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