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Top American Jewish Leader: Stop Making Excuses for Abbas on Palestinian Incitement
(Algemeiner) Barney Breen-Portnoy - The time has come to stop making excuses for Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on the issue of incitement, Malcolm Hoenlein - the executive vice chairman and CEO of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations - told Algemeiner this week. Abbas is "directly involved in incitement," he said. Hoenlein expressed support for the Taylor Force Act, which was introduced in Congress in February, noting, "Our stance against the funding of terrorists and their families has been a longstanding position." Regarding Trump's declared desire to broker an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement, Hoenlein said, "I think the fact that he didn't force a meeting between Netanyahu and Abbas shows, hopefully, that he is realistic about the prospects for a negotiated settlement at this moment....Any talks must be held directly between Netanyahu and Abbas, and should be encouraged, but not forced. Otherwise, they will not work."