Why Was Mahmoud Abbas Avoiding the UN Secretary-General?
He didn’t want to be told to behave.
September 8, 2017
He didn’t want to be told to behave.
Last week, the UN secretary-general António Guterres visited Israel, Ramallah, and Gaza without meeting with the Palestinian Authority president, who was conveniently in Turkey to see President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Pinḥas Inbari suggests that Abbas simply didn’t want to hear what Guterres had to say:
He didn’t want to be told to behave.
A Holocaust Museum report absolved the former president of turning a blind eye to mass murder in Syria.
The emirate solution.
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Last week, the UN secretary-general António Guterres visited Israel, Ramallah, and Gaza without meeting with the Palestinian Authority president, who was conveniently in Turkey to see President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Pinḥas Inbari suggests that Abbas simply didn’t want to hear what Guterres had to say:
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