Palestinian President: 21 Articles that Netanyahu Presented Are Absurd and Worthless – Security, Borders and Jewish State

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Mahmoud Abbas said, in an interview with Decision-makers on Russia Today channel, that his visits to the UK, Germany and Russia aim to discuss what can be done in case the discovery meetings in Amman failed between the Israeli and Palestinian sides.
He also added: "We have the right to launch a diplomatic campaign. But I'm not doing it to confine Israel, nor to take away its legitimacy. No. I want to coexist with Israel. There's a difference between confining it or taking away its legitimacy, and coexisting with Israel. I really want to coexist with it but I want to confine the Israeli policy and the Israeli settlements".
About the 21 articles that Netanyahu presented, Abbas explained, "These 21 articles are headlines; 21 headlines, 21 cases. We are negotiating headlines, security and borders. So why should he set those...It's not my right to disclose them because they're supposed to be kept secret. But as he already disclosed it, I say that they're absurd and worthless. A prime minister should not be presenting such headlines: security, borders, Jewish state...These are words that nobody understands. What does he mean by those riddles? 21 riddles. And he says he's presented us with something, what has he presented?"
Regarding the discussion of the settlements in the Security Council on the 24th of January, president Abbas said, "I hope this time America does not use the veto right. America is the most powerful state in the world and it should not be this biased to Israel. We respect it. Our relationship with it is very good. They help us very much. We have an official representation there, a PLO office. We make mutual official visits, and from American presidents. But sometimes I feel that when it comes to this case that they take Israel's side. Why? I don't know."
In a comment on Israel's arrest of senator Dweik, president Abbas said, "Israel has arrested him more than once, I don't know why. He's been arrested and released twice and there is no reason behind the two arrests. I don't believe that Dweik committed any crime that the law can hold him responsible for. I'll say it plainly; this is an arbitrary arrest and it has no legal basis whatsoever."


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