PA President Mahmoud Abbas has warned Israeli President Shimon Peres that a third intifada beckons due to the deadlock in negotiations.
Umm, say what?
President Shimon Peres recently warned Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas that continuing the deadlock in negotiations with Israel could lead to a third intifada and that in delaying, Abbas was “playing with fire.”
On Wednesday, U.S. special envoy George Mitchell came to the region in another attempt to jump-start talks between Israel and the Palestinians.
At a meeting at the President’s Residence on Sunday, Peres told Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Store about his discussions with Abbas.
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Peres said he told Abbas at one point that “postponing peace negotiations is playing with fire. He says that he has time. Something will happen to start an intifada and the two sides will have lost an opportunity.”
Meanwhile, the Norwegian Foreign Minister is taking the “Mahmoud Abbas needs our support” approach.
Store told Peres that Israel should take more steps to support Abbas. “Abu Mazen [Abbas] is vulnerable and feels hurt, and his position needs to be bolstered by American support,” Store said, adding: “You have the best psychologists … How do we read the personality and political mind of Abu Mazen? What will make him move?”
Heck, our best psychologists still haven’t figured out Shimon Peres.
Meanwhile, this is what Peres had to say about the PA President.
“I am a friend of Abu Mazen. He says the Americans put him in a high tree and took the ladder away. Some of the mistakes were made by him. His expectations of Obama were created by him. He thought that Obama would take the Palestinian side. … I can understand his feelings of disappointment,” Peres said.
I’d say he put himself in a high tree with a sniper’s rifle, and then instructed his people to chop up the ladder and use the wood to make more weapons.
