Abbas reveals his hand. He'd rather see his people die than lose to a political situation that will never happen anyway.
Just how concerned is Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas about his beleaguered Palestinian brethren in Syria? Apparently none-too-much considering the Fatah leader just rejected a conditional Israeli offer to allow Palestinian refugees residing in Syria to resettle in Gaza and Judea and Samaria. Abbas’ rationale is that accepting the Israeli offer will somehow nullify Palestinians’ claims of “right of return” to homes in Israel.
In other words, the Palestinian president has allowed his own people to remain in danger in Assad’s war-torn country over the possibility that it might undermine his leverage in using the old “right of return” card to uproot Jewish families from Israel and replace them with Palestinians.
In other words, the Palestinian president has allowed his own people to remain in danger in Assad’s war-torn country over the possibility that it might undermine his leverage in using the old “right of return” card to uproot Jewish families from Israel and replace them with Palestinians.
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