PA’s Abbas: ‘No, We Do Not Support the Boycott of Israel’

[shira]

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In a surprising report from a South African newspaper, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, visiting the country among over 90 other foreign leaders to pay respects at a memorial service for Nelson Mandela, told the Star newspaper that he “firmly rejected the campaign in South Africa to boycott and divest from Israel.”

In a scanned copy of the article posted to Twitter by Jerusalem based publicist and blogger Avi Mayer, and nominee of The Algemeiner’s Jewish 100 award, dozens responded with their disbelief.

“No, we do not support the boycott of ‪‎Israel‬,” Abbas replied to a question. “But we ask everyone to boycott the products of the settlements. Because the settlements are in our territories. It is illegal.”

“And the Israelis should first of all stop building in our territories, should stop everything in our territories. But we don’t ask anyone to boycott Israel itself. We have relations with Israel, we have mutual recognition of Israel,” he said.

http://www.algemeiner.com/2013/12/13/pas-abbas-no-we-do-not-support-the-boycott-of-%E2%80%AA%E2%80%8Eisrael/

[oberliner]

1. Electronic Intifada is all over this

Abuminah is livid!

[shira]

2. Yeah, I guess those BDS-holes don't really speak for the Palestinian people after all.

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Not even the leader of BDS, Omar Barghouti, who boycotts Israel as he attends an Israeli University.

Gaza stores are filled with Israeli products that they proudly advertise.

It's also noteworthy that Chomsky and Finkelstein have called BDS out for the lying, hyporcritical, deceptive bullshit that it is...

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And yet, there's Roger Waters calling for BDS, comparing Jews to Nazis....and he's adored by the "pro-Palestinian" crowd.

[oberliner]

4. They despise Abbas over there

Regularly compare him to a "Bantustan leader" or worse.

[oberliner]

12. That would be the "worse"

"...a peculiarly reductionist view of how Abbas is understood by those "on the left"..."

Don't know exactly what you mean by that.

I do have a sense of what you are getting it from your Nazi-era analogy, but If you can elaborate, I'd appreciate it.

[King_David]

15. So you guys "on the left" (ha ha ha )

Understand the Palestinians better than the Palistinians do ?

I get it , just like the ISM thinking they can lead the Palistinians from their living rooms in the USA or Europe .

And just like those here on DU who keep telling the posters that are Jews that we don't speak for the Jews.

Got it..

[King_David]

18. Dunno wtf you talking about, I was laughing that the Antizionists think they are "Left" ha ha ha

I am a proud Gay dude extremely supportive of marriage for my people.

But Supporting Israel and Zionism is a practice of the Democratic Party of the USA and 80% of the Jews vote that leftist party of Obamas.

The extreme right wing of the USA such as David Duke , Buchanen etc are anti Israel anti Zionism pro BDS. , call sitar an apartheid state, call on the government to end all contact with the Jewish state and to stop military cooperation etc

[King_David]

20. It's not my ideology that's extreme

Or marginal .

Thomas Mulclair wouldn't accept anti semitism anti Zionism and Israel into his party either-- that extreme right wing crap is what I called it -- extreme.

Keep your faux heads up Mr. .. I don't need it.. I'm very inside with Obama and the USA Democratic Party policy 100%

[King_David]

22. Post is very jumbled as Scoot tells you

Can you try again , make it easy to understand.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

3. It's strange that you now support

somebody that you derisively accuse others of supporting. I don't support Hamas or Abbas, but don't let that stop you from being a tad bit hypocritical.

[oberliner]

5. "I don't support Hamas or Abbas..."

Why not?

Who do you support?

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

6. The Palestinian people.

Just as I do not support Netanyahu or any Israeli hawks, I support open-minded people like 'Israeli'.

Furthermore, I never supported BushII, but I support America to overcome its bad decisions and politicians.

A people are not its leader, and Abbas should be replaced.

[oberliner]

8. The vast majority of the Palestinian people support Fatah or Hamas

86 percent of the last vote went to one or the other of those two parties.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

9. I guess that is a good excuse to

continue apartheid.

[shira]

7. Where do u get that I support Abbas? I don't...

I don't support Bibi either. He needs to be replaced.

[shaayecanaan]

10. seems like quite a moderate and reasonable guy that Abbas

pity he has no peace partner on the other side.

[shira]

14. How do u consider Abbas reasonable when his very own PA is so busy....

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...inciting hatred against the Jewish pigs and monkeys across the green line?
http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=786

That's all Abbas.

And here's Mahmoud recently saluting Hitler's Mufti:
http://www.algemeiner.com/2013/01/04/abbas-salutes-hitler-supporting-mufti-terrorists-in-anniversary-address/

Of course, Abbas praises, glorifies, and rewards terror acts against innocents - including children.

Most neo-nazis dream of doing what Abbas does WRT Jews, but he's your idea of moderate and reasonable.