(Ynet News) Attila Somfalvi - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of "distorting known and well-documented historical facts" in his recent op-ed in the New York Times. Netanyahu said the Palestinians were the ones to reject the UN Partition Plan of 1948, while the Jews agreed to it. "Arab armies assisted by Palestinian forces were those who attacked the Jewish state with the aim of destroying it. There is no mention of this in the article." The prime minister added, "One can deduce that the Palestinian leadership views the establishment of the Palestinian state as a means to continue the conflict rather than end it."
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