At the UN, Mahmoud Abbas’s Bombshell Surprises No One
It turns out to be a dud.
October 2, 2015
At the UN, Mahmoud Abbas’s Bombshell Surprises No One
It turns out to be a dud.
For several weeks, the Palestinian press had been predicting that the head of the Palestinian Authority (PA) would make a shocking, “bombshell” announcement in his speech at the UN General Assembly. Yet the speech itself, which he gave on Wednesday, consisted of a litany of familiar slanderous complaints about Israel, followed by a declaration that he would cease to be bound by the Oslo Accords. Elliott Abrams writes:
October 2, 2015
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