Speaking to reporters in the Algeria, Abbas said the Palestinians were “determined to restore their rights, including the right of return for refugees and the release of all Palestinians from Israeli prison.”
Abbas added: “We won’t surrender to the occupation’s policy of dominance and repression. The Palestinian cause is the key to peace and war in the Middle East and the basis for maintaining security and peace.”
Abbas repeated his threat to dissolve the PA if the latest statehood bid at the Security Council fails. “If we fail, we will halt all dealings with the Israeli government and ask it to assume its responsibilities as an occupation state,” he said.
He also repeated his call for a “peaceful and popular resistance against settlements and the racist separation wall.” He also mocked at Israelis who have branded him a “diplomatic terrorist.”
Abbas said that Palestinian diplomacy has been successful in isolating Israel’s “expansionist policy.”
Meanwhile, Arab League Secretary-General Nabil Elarabi said that he was considering dispatching a special delegation to Washington to urge the US Administration to refrain from vetoing the Palestinian statehood resolution. He said that Arab League foreign ministers are scheduled to meet on January 15 to discuss ways of mustering worldwide support for the resolution, which calls for setting a timeline for an Israeli withdrawal to the pre-1967 lines.
Elarabi said that it was important to remind the US of UN resolution 465, which was passed in 1980 and which considers settlements as illegal. He said that the world has begun realizing that dangers of the continuation of the Israeli-Arab conflict, especially in the aftermath of the last war in the Gaza Strip.
By KHALED ABU TOAMEH
[jpost.com]
23/12/14
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Abbas says to cut ties with Israel if UN move fails ...
ReplyDeletePalestinian president Mahmud Abbas warned on Dec. 23 that his administration would "no longer deal" with Israel if a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for a final peace deal fails.
"If the Arab-Palestinian initiative submitted to the Security Council to put an end to (Israeli) occupation doesn't pass, we will be forced to take the necessary political and legal decisions," Abbas was quoted as saying by the Algerian APS news agency.
"If it fails, we will no longer deal with the Israeli government, which will then be forced to assume its responsibilities as an occupier," he added.
The Palestinian draft resolution sets a 12-month deadline for wrapping up negotiations on a final peace settlement and the end of 2017 as the timeframe for completing an Israeli withdrawal from Palestinian territories..................http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/abbas-says-to-cut-ties-with-israel-if-un-move-fails.aspx?pageID=238&nID=76002&NewsCatID=352
23/12/14