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Mahmoud Abbas' Dangerous Grandstanding
(Washington Post) Editorial - PA President Mahmoud Abbas delivered a bridge-burning speech to the UN General Assembly last week, mendaciously accusing Israel of "a new war of genocide" and declaring that a return to negotiations was "impossible." Abbas is trying to win support for a UN Security Council resolution, after refusing to respond to a U.S. framework for peace talks painstakingly developed by Secretary of State John Kerry. Abbas has now rejected platforms for a settlement on two occasions from two U.S. presidents. He persists in grandstanding gestures that he must know will only delay the serious negotiations that must precede the creation of a Palestinian state. He has spoken for years of retiring but, at 79, he clings to his post four years after his elected term expired. Hamas has done the most harm to Palestinians and their cause in recent years. But Abbas has done little good.