Abbas to Arab League: Israel has violated all agreements

[bemildred]

srael has effectively abrogated the Oslo Accords and other agreements that were signed with the PLO since 1993, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was quoted as saying on Monday.

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The PA, meanwhile, reaffirmed its opposition to a temporary freeze of settlement construction and rejected the idea of US assurances to Israel.

Chief PLO negotiator Saeb Erekat quoted Abbas as telling Arab leaders attending the summit that Israel has also scrapped the PA’s political, legal, functional and security authorities in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

“President Abbas stressed to the Arab leaders that Israel has effectively cancelled the Oslo Accords and other agreements signed with the PLO,” Erekat told Agence France-Presse.

http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=191038

[Ozymanithrax]

1. This is way overdue...

Abbas also sought the backing of the three countries for his intention to unilaterally declare a Palestinian state if the peace process fails.

But the outcome may not be pretty.

Would the Arab league recognize an Palestinian state...probably.
Would they defend a Palestinian state...that is the ugly part.

[bemildred]

2. The outcome is already not pretty. nt

[Ozymanithrax]

3. No, and why I think that declaring their own sate is overdue.

But it could lead to another regional war. And if the Arab League is unwilling to defend Palastinian Statehood, it is allowing them to be slaughtered.

I hope, though I doubt this will happen, the U.S. is the first to recognize a Palastinian State.

[txaslftist]

5. The US will not intervene to stop an Israeli

slaughter of the Palestinians, any more than we intervened to stop an Israeli slaughter in Lebanon.

Who do you think runs the show over there?

And no, the Arab states will not defend the Palestinians.

[demosincebirth]

4. My patience with Israel is starting to wane