West Bank – US Secretary of State John Kerry recently threatened Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas that he would meet the same fate as his predecessor, Yasser Arafat, if he turned down Washington’s proposals for peace with Israel, a Palestinian source was quoted Sunday as saying.
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Jamal Muhaissen, a senior Fatah official in the West Bank, said that if the report about Kerry’s threat to Abbas is true, “this shows that Israel assassinated Yasser Arafat after receiving a green light from the US Administration.”
Muhaissen said that Kerry’s threat comes in wake of his failure to impose a settlement on Israel that is “consistent with international law.”
Kerry should not hold the Palestinians responsible for his failure with the Israelis, the Fatah official added.
“If true, Kerry’s threat paves the way for bringing him before the International Criminal Court for threatening the life of an elected Palestinian president,” Muhaissen said.
A Palestinian source told the daily Rai al-Youm that Abbas angrily stormed out of a four-hour meeting with Kerry in Ramallah after the latter exerted pressure on him to accept the proposals.
The source claimed that Kerry told Abbas that his fate would not be “less than that of Yasser Arafat.”
Kerry’s proposals were received with shock and rejection by Abbas, the source added.
The source said that Kerry’s proposals do not meet the minimum of Palestinian aspirations and Abbas’s promises to his people.
“Abbas wants future generations to remember him as a hero who managed to achieve for his people what the largest Arab powers and parties failed to obtain in all their wars with Israel,” the unnamed source explained.
The source claimed that Kerry’s proposals call for the annexation of 6-8 percent of West Bank land to Israel. In return, the Palestinians would be compensated with 5.5 percent of land from inside Israel.
In addition, the source said, the proposals envisage the opening of a safe passage between the West Bank and Gaza Strip and the division of east Jerusalem.
As for the issue of the refugees, the source said, Kerry wants to establish an international fund for settling Palestinians in Australia and anywhere else they wish. Only a small number of refugees would be permitted to enter Israel in the context of “family reunion.”
The source claimed that the proposals envisage creating large settlement blocs where 80 percent of the settlers would be gathered under Israeli sovereignty. The settlers would be offered dual citizenship (Israeli and Palestinian).
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Kerry, and his boss, Obama, are desperate for their reputation, and are not concerned at all for the welfare of the conflicting parties. That is why the notion of threat is able to be raised. It is crazy to tell Israel to accept situations that are unlivable just to get an accord. Now he is stupid enough to do this with Abbas. Another idiot that is busy with his posthumous reputation. If we only had a few people involved in the process that were dedicated to morality, honesty, and peace.
The second Abbas gives anything to Israel will be a part of the minute in which he is murdered by other arabs.
Kerry is special but he is not going to poison the negative mind of Abbas with a real poison. That is just unheard of. I think that Kerry means that Abbas will be like Arafat- A life of ignomity. And that means that there is very little hope in Israel for peace with the little twerps that want to rule Israel with their caliphate. Never Again.
Any “peace” process that is being FORCED is not “peace”. It is force. whether it is threatening the Israelis with sanctions of threatening Abbas… there will not be Peace. There may be FORCED quiet that will blow up much worse in the future, r”l.
Hmm, I hadn’t heard about the hallucinogen LSD since college, is that still around? Must be, because the palies are obviously hallucinating on something wicked!
I must admit that I do not understand why, at a time when so many middle east countries are in the process of self destructing, the US is so concerned with the one country that actually works well. I don’t get it.
Kerry is losing his mind, with boycotting Israel as well.
….. not to say that Kerry is so innocent, but to think that the secretary of state would resort to poisoning international ‘heads of state’ that don’t comply with U.S. policy is slightly hysterical …. this should prove to Kerry and the entire Obama administration that they are dealing with true paranoid psychopaths …. something most Jews have known for years …..