PA President Abbas: We Shall Enter Jerusalem — Millions of Fighters!
The Palestinian leader was speaking during a visit to the Jalazone Refugee Camp near Ramallah earlier this month.
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas threatened this week that "million of fighters" would swarm Jerusalem and topple the Jewish state's capital city, warning that "no matter how many houses and how many settlements they declare that they [plan to build] here and there—they shall all be destroyed."
PA President Abbas: 'Millions Of Fighters' Will Take Over Jerusalem
PA President Mahmoud Abbas threatened this week that "million of fighters" would swarm Jerusalem and topple the Jewish state's capital city.
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The practice referred to here has been brought up in USA and international discussion over aid to PA.Pivoting to the payments for convicted terrorists, a policy known as pay to slay, Abbas said the payments will never cease, despite increasing international pressure from the West.
"We will not accept their designation of our martyrs as terrorists," Abbas said. "Our martyrs are the martyrs of the homeland. We will not allow them to deduct a single penny from their money. All the money will go back to them, because the martyrs, the wounded, and the prisoners are the most sacred things we have."
That's quite an attitude for the "moderate" side of Palestinian leadership...
Unfortunately this kind of "anti-diplomacy" is not so unusual for half of it though.
This does not seem to bode well for the future of Trump's plan for Palestine, and unsurprisingly so - after all, it includes making Fatah at very least less powerful and less independent in goverining the autonomy, so no wonder Abbas would do what he can to sabotage it, as it's unlikely Jordan would be eager to take part if the deal includes necessity of getting rid of Fatah by force.