Published: 18 January 2018
Last updated: 4 March 2024
Behind the fiery rhetoric, the Palestinian leadership is cornered and flailing (Washington Post)
The Palestinians have little to show for past efforts to promote their cause internationally. Meanwhile, while Israel becomes increasingly emboldened by US support and its acquiescence to Israeli settlement construction in occupied territory
Will Abbas’s ‘Eff off, Trump’ fury play into the hands of rightwing Israelis? (Guardian)
IAN BLACK The Palestinian leader’s Ramallah speech reads like a two-state epitaph, but his principled realism is an enduring point of light
Abbas’s speech is a grenade in the Israeli right’s lap (Times of Israel)
AVI ISSACHAROFF The Palestinian leader may have confirmed he is no peace partner, but now the onus is on Netanyahu's government to come up with a realistic long-term plan
Rivlin slams Abbas for peddling ‘terrible’ anti-Jewish ‘conspiracies’ (Times of Israel)
Palestinian leader's speech reminiscent of his previous Holocaust denial, president tells visiting AIPAC delegation
