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Palestine warns of Israeli incitement against Abbas

Xinhua, October 1, 2015 Adjust font size:

The Palestinian Foreign Ministry warned Thursday of Israeli incitement against Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas following his speech at the UN General Assembly in New York.

The ministry said that Israel's response to Abbas's speech is typical of stereotypical views of Israeli right wing leaders. Such views are against Palestinian leadership and its political program that holds fast to Palestinian rights. It called for an independent state through peaceful means and negotiations.

"The facts, which Abbas clarified in his United Nations (UN) speech turned Israel into an extremist symbol, mainly (PM Benjamin) Netanyahu, given the fact that the Israeli government failed to provide opportunities for peaceful negotiations and reneged on signed agreements," the ministry said.

The Foreign Ministry said that the Israeli government is entirely responsible for the outcome from this planned attack against President Abbas.

The ministry called upon the United Nations to "seriously deal with this incitement and assume their legal, human and moral responsibilities towards Palestinian people, including providing them with international protection."

President Abbas said Wednesday that as long as Israel does not commit to the signed peace agreements and treaties reached between the two sides in 1993, but rather persists in breaching them, then the Palestinians won't be committed to it either.

He said Israel should assume its responsibilities as an occupying power, stating that the status quo is not sustainable. He referred to the March decision of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Central Council to halt security cooperation with Israel and suspend work according to the signed agreements.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, currently in New York, announced his willingness to return to negotiations "without preconditions," reported Israel's public radio.

He accused Abbas of lack of interest in reaching a political settlement since he never responded to that discourse.

The director-general of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, Dore Gold, stressed the need to take Abbas's "threats" of not abiding by signed agreements seriously, deeming the speech "racist."

Gold remarked to Israeli radio that Abbas has been systematically instigating Palestinians against Israel in the past few weeks.

Peace negotiations between Palestinians and Israelis are frozen since March 2014, following nine months of US-brokered talks which failed to reach a solution to the decade-long conflict. Endit