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Abbas: Jerusalem can be gate for peace or war, Trump must choose
Elior Levy
Published: 17.01.18, 12:00
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1. POOR GUY
Robert ,   Israel   (01.17.18)
Next step, Abbas will find out that an ancestor of his ancestors came from the Inuit tribes (Eskimos), so his Palestinians are entitled to own the North Pole too.
Poor guy, he doesn't stop raving. What will he "discover" next?
2. BIG LOSERS
Robert ,   Israel   (01.17.18)
Abbas menaces Trump to "choose" now about Abbas' Jerusalem Palestinian Capital dreams .
It is all the way round: It is Abbas who has to choose to take what is left or face loosing all. It is not the first time Palestinians reject what it was given to them. Arafat played the same game, and their territory now is much smaller that it was in 1948 when at that time the UN split the land in two; one for the Palestinians and the other for the Jews.. They have been the big losers for trying to eat more than they could hold in their mouths.
3. "Trump must choose" - Yeah..right! Hilarious!
SM ,   In the West   (01.17.18)
Abbas is a terrorist. The financier behind the Munich Olympic Massacre. All sane and freedom loving people "must choose" to dispense with this endless game and tell the muslims where-to-go. There is NO peace while islam exists.
4. Delusional
Rami ,   Helsinki   (01.17.18)
And his buddy Assad thinks that Arabs living in Damascus and Latakia are ancient Assyrians. Kurds and Jews are the only ones with several thousand year old roots to the Levant and Mesopotamia. You and Assad both have roots in the Arabian peninsula. It was Saladin the Kurd who retook Jerusalem for your Arab islamic people. Saladin was too tolerant and a good guy. Kurds are friends of Israel even if some made mistakes by supporting PLO, Assad, Ocalan or Saddam.
5. Remember peace=genocide as terrorism=peaceful resistance
(01.17.18)
Welcome to mainstream Palestinian terminology. They have been brainwashed in Palestinians society to call terrorist attacks ¨peaceful resistance¨. Cultural Marxism and the distortion of language is here and thriving not just in the West.

Abbas is a terrorist who should either be arrested or killed. He openly preaches genocide of Jews while funding and supporting those who carry out the attacks. He started the knife intifada by going on TV and calling for terrorist attacks against Jews. Send him to Europe where they can give him a state.

Israelis are getting to a point when they will fight back, If the Government doesn't fight for the peoples rights soon I am worried the people may take it into their own hands.

The job of a government first and foremost is to protect its citizens. Why has a so called extreme right wing government allowed the daily attacks against Jews to continue?
6. Yeah right - the USA better- or else Abbas
MadDad ,   Johannesburg   (01.17.18)
7. AbuAss, Mecca is your gate for peace, return there
Steve Benassi ,   Minneapolis USA   (01.17.18)
8. If Canaanite,then why call yourself a Greek Philistine name?
Steve Benassi ,   Minneapolis USA   (01.17.18)
9. TO MR.ABBAS: TRUMP DID CHOOSE
CAPTAIN OBVIOUS ,   SAFED OBVIOUS   (01.17.18)
10. mr
Roland ,   london England   (01.17.18)
If he is a Canaanite,he is an idol worshipper,and offers children as sacrifices to "Moloch".The modern sacrifice is to encourage the young to kill wherever possible anybody other than a Moslem..He has confirmed over many years that he is also an "Esavite",because he is cunning with his tongue.His assosciation with Amalek is enough for Israel to encourage others to take over who want to enjoy the fruits that a true Peace can offer.A "G-D" fearing man emulates Avraham with kindness...for this he breathes out fire and brim stones !
11. Same story:the arabs built London,no? They control it anyway
Andre ,   Clichy   (01.17.18)
A confused mind: it is the Jebusites, long extinct. And anyway it never was their capital, but a mere fortified town. In any case Abbas's lot is arabs, just arabs. They came a mere 2,700 years after David has established his capital in Jerusalem. And Abbas's forefathers even later in the 20th century to benefit from the Jews' presence. The same way they invaded Europe to live from benefits...A joke, all of them ! LOL !
12. moishe rabeynu
moishe   (01.17.18)
no! Abbas must choose.
13. Abbas' latest Palestinian narrative now contradicts Islam.
Doc Roberts ,   Cardiff   (01.17.18)
The Palestinian objectives are to disqualify Israel's historical standing and to inherit its belongings by delegitimizing and even dehumanizing its national identity and personality. This fictitious history, which ignores all historical documentation and established historical methods, is based on systematic distortions of both ancient and modern history with the aim of denying Israel's right to exist.

Palestinians also declared themselves to have been the center of historical events and peoples found in the Bible in the form of the Edomites, Amorites, Midianites, Amalekites, Ibrahim bin Azar (biblical Abraham), and al-Khadir (Prophet Elijah).

To claim that Palestinians are the original inhabitants of the Land of Israel not only goes against secular history and scientific knowledge, but it also flies in the face of Islamic religious history. Not only do the Islamic scriptures recognize the unique Jewish claims to the Land of Israel, but there is no reference whatsoever to any Palestinian people dwelling on any land called Filastin during any part of Islamic history until the twentieth century.
14. Another Palestinian lie parading as historical fact
Doc Roberts ,   Cardiff   (01.17.18)
Whilst such shameful attempts to erase Jewish history is nothing new within the milieu of anti-Zionist rhetoric, the Palestinians as Canaanites narrative is indeed a relatively new phenomenon – a claim made in spite of the fact that the Canaanites disappeared roughly three thousand years ago, and little if anything is known about their descendants.

Most of the population now known as Palestinian descended from migrants originating from the surrounding Arab countries and from local Bedouins. Many migrated in waves from the middle of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century. Others were imported by the Ottoman Empire and by the British for infrastructure and agricultural projects, or migrated to the region following Zionist economic success, which produced a staggering population growth. Palestinians are perhaps the newest of all peoples, comprising many scattered groups. In fact, in origin they are more Egyptian, Syrian, Jordanian, Lebanese, and mainly Bedouin, than Palestinian.
15. Abbas needs some history lessons
Alexander ,   Tel Aviv   (01.17.18)
The "Palestinians" are NOT mentioned on a single page, in a single book or literary source of a single ancient civilization of the Middle East, North Africa or the Mediterranean region.

Not a single ancient source, not a single history book, not a single page in a single history book, not a single archaeological excavation, not a single piece of brick, stone, grain of sand or dust, makes even a remote reference to any "Palestinian" people, nation or civilization.

"Palestine" is a ROMAN/LATIN name, the letter "p" doesn't exist in Arabic, the Arabs have ALREADY STOLEN 80% of the Jewish people's homeland (Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan), the Jewish civilization was born roughly 4000 years ago - 2000 BCE in Israel, while the Arab Muslim civilization was born 2600 years later - in the 7th century AD/600s AD, roughly 1000 kimometers south east of Israel, on the south western corner of the Arabian peninsula.

Canaanites or Israelites were most likely sister nations given the fact that their language and alphabet were almost identical. Israelites and Canaanites were intermarried and the Israelites or modern day Jews most likely have partial ancient Canaanite ancestry. If there is a modern nation or ethnic group which can today claim partial Canaanite ancestry, it's the Jews.

The Canaanite identity most likely disappeared from the scene of history 3000-2500 years ago, when they were completely assimilated into the Israelite population.

Most "Palestinians" arrived in Israel/Turkish Province of Syria/British Mandate of Palestine between the 1880s and the 1940s. Hardly ancient history.

To claim that the "Palestinians" - who are of Persian, Kurdish, Turkish, Afghan, Egyptian, Sudanese, Black African, German, Italian, Greek, Bosnian and Albanian descent, and arrived in Israel between the 1880s and the 1940s, constitutes a "homogenous" ethnic group of people with ancient history in the Levant is rather far fetched.

By the time the "Palestinians" ENTERED Israel between the 1880s and the 1940s, the CANAANITES HAD ALREADY DISAPPEARED FROM THE SCENE OF HISTORY FOR THE LAST 3000-2500 YEARS.

A question to Abbas: Canaanites WERE NOT ARABS and they WERE NOT MUSLIMS. They were Canaanites, and their language and alphabet were almost identical to Hebrew. Why isn't Abbas and why aren't the "Palestinians" speaking Canaanite then?

And if they are "Canaanites" why call themselves "Palestinians"?

Israel's enemies are lying 24 hours a day but if they are supposed to lie, at least lie with some credibility. The Arabs need to make up their minds. Who are they? Arabs? "Palestinians"? Descendants of the ancient Canaanites?

Or maybe descendants of the ancient Israelites? But wouldn't that make them Jewish?
16. What did they actually build
Rami ,   Helsinki   (01.17.18)
Everything modern was built by Jews, Turks, British and others. There was even a German settlement back in the day. Yemen is what a fully Arab dominated society looks like. Israel will never hand over control of Jerusalem university or anything build by hard working zionists to a bunch of rural farmers with delusions of grandeur.
17. The 2 most powerful words of 2018,,,,
Julius ,   Baltimore, USA   (01.17.18)
will be "Fake Jews".
18. Abbas is either grasping at thin air, or.....insane.
David ,   Hartford USA   (01.17.18)
The more removed from any real power he becomes, the more outrageous his claims. Not sure why Al-Sisi allowed him to speak; Egypt's Copts are in for more trouble. Why doesn't the Pope speak up about the slaughter of Copts in Egypt? Afraid to step on some toes?

Trump isn't afraid to step on toes. Bully for him!
19. His real text
(01.17.18)
"There hasn't been and there won't be a Palestinian. ( Arab or Christian who will bargain over Jerusalem and Palestine and give up one grain of sand from our land,") Abbas insisted.
THIS IS WHAT HE REALLY SHOULD HAVE SAID
20. Give this dirt-bag AIDS, ASAP! May he join diseased Arafat !
(01.17.18)
21. Palestinian claim of only wanting 22% of land is BS
Sam ,   Montreal   (01.17.18)
The Palestinians want all of Israel through a right of return, however, through propaganda, lying and posturing they do a snow job on Western and Jewish liberals who are too dumb to realize they are being conned. That's what the Palestinians are counting on.
22. Abbas is a learned man
Ian ,   Newcastle upon Tyne   (01.17.18)
You get a really great education at Patrice Lumumba University, Moscow.

THREE CHEERS FOR ISRAEL!!!
23. The choice was rejection
This human ,   Notmdwhumanhands   (01.17.18)
Bad descision by Palestinian leadership.
24. Israel needs to choose peace by letting "Palestine" fall
Chaim ,   Israel   (01.17.18)
So far, Israel has chosen to pamper "Palestinian" poseurs and pay homage to their bogus claim to our sole tiny Homeland. Not surprisingly, this mad choice produces endless wars and terror. Israel needs to choose peace by letting evil fictional "Palestine" fall and claiming all our lands.
25. Abbas is the modern Muhammed
Ian ,   Newcastle upon Tyne   (01.17.18)
He's either a selfserving chauvinist or a pathetic schizophrenic.....or both at the same time.

'Tell me, Mr Abbas, what are these voices telling you? '

THREE CHEERS FOR ISRAEL!!!
26. If "Pals" built Jerusalem,
solomon ,   bklyn   (01.17.18)
how come the Al Aqsa Mosque is on TOP of the Temple Mount?!
27. Abbas, the Holocaust denying terrorist wants Jerusalem
C   (01.17.18)
the man is delusional, insane.
jerusalem has been jewish for three thousand years.
jerusalem will remain jewish for eternity.
28. tiring ....
steve s   (01.18.18)
The Abbas rhetoric is becoming as tiring as that of Erdogan or Nasrallah. It's time to give it a rest.
29. BDS Losers
DG ,   NY   (01.18.18)
I think we should printout copies of Abba's words to give to all the idiots who support BDS.
30. We came from the trees in Africa. Savannah is the capital.
Michael ,   California, USA   (01.18.18)
It took a while to come down from the African trees and build some cities. Jerusalem came about a million years after our life in Savannah, why fight about it?
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