As yet another Israeli Knesset delegation fawns over Abbas

...But there is a much more basic matter that you could raise with Mahmoud Abbas: "Mr. Abbas - you say that you condemn the attack, but what do you believe Israel should do if it manages to get its hands on the perpetrator of the act that you condemn? Free him?" Fair question.

Dr. Aaron Lerner..
IMRA..
07 October '13..

[Dr. Aaron Lerner - IMRA: So you are an Israeli Knesset member visiting Mahmoud Abbas and Abbas throws a bone - mumbling something about the Psagot attack - while asserting that the intentional attempted murder of a 9 year old girl was the equivalent of the late August incident in Qalandiya where 3 members of a mob of 1,500 died when the Israeli police border team that the mob was trying to kill with petrol bombs and stones opened fire so that the Israelis could exit the scene alive.

Maybe you aren't sure about the Qalandiya reference so you don't address that.

But there is a much more basic matter that you could raise with Mahmoud Abbas: "Mr. Abbas - you say that you condemn the attack, but what do you believe Israel should do if it manages to get its hands on the perpetrator of the act that you condemn? Free him?"

Fair question.

But the Israeli MKs usually don't ask hard questions.

That’s because they are liberal racists.

They look at Mahmoud Abbas and see a savage dressed up in a business suit.

So they have no expectations.]

Abbas tells MKs Israel should stop incursions into Palestinian cities
Published today (updated) 07/10/2013 19:20
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=636820

RAMALLAH (Ma’an) – A meeting in Ramallah Monday between President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Knesset members was “positive,” a senior Fatah official said.


Participants addressed the means to support the ongoing peace negotiations and to overcome all obstacles, said Muhammad al-Madani, the head of a PA committee for interconnection with Israeli society.

Speaking to Ma’an via telephone, al-Madani highlighted that Abbas told the Knesset delegation that the Palestinians remained supportive of a two-state solution on the basis of internationally recognized legitimacy. Abbas also reiterated that the Palestinian side denounced killings and aggressiveness by any party.

“The Palestinian side denounced the attack in Psagot settlement, the killing in Hebron, the murder in Qalandiya refugee camp and the Israeli incursions into Palestinian cities and the ongoing settler assaults against our people,” al-Madani added.

Monday’s meeting, he said, was a follow up to a meeting in the Knesset in September.

Al-Madani asserted that meetings with Israeli politicians at different levels were seeking to prepare for future political moves and to prepare Israeli society for peace. Such meetings, he said, are also attempts to deter the Israeli right-wing forces who oppose the two-state solution. The meetings will continue in future, he said.

Official Israeli radio quoted Abbas as saying that security coordination with Israel “has reached the highest point”. Abbas demanded that Israel stop incursions into Palestinian cities which are under full Palestinian control.

Abbas also called for a joint Palestinian-Israeli committee to fight incitement to resume its work.

The president sent his condolences to the family of Shas spiritual leader Ovadia Yosef.

Link: http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=62037

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