Those Israelis can keep their spoon-bending trickster Uri Geller. This Palestinian leadership can read minds. Al Jazeera, Wednesday:
After more than two years of discussions and various delays, US President Donald Trump has unveiled his long-awaited Middle East plan, which he has also referred to as the “deal of the century”. The Palestinian leadership rejected the proposal even before its release …
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, the seer of Ramallah. India Today, Wednesday:
Abbas held an emergency meeting with other Palestinian factions, including Hamas, to discuss a unified response to the plan. Abbas had rejected the deal before it was announced …
Once upon a time Palestine Liberation Organisation leader Yasser Arafat didn’t read his “deal of the century” either. He had the leader of the free world read it to him. The Guardian, May 23, 2002:
Halfway through the conference … (US president Bill) Clinton had “slowly” — to avoid misunderstanding — read out to Arafat a document, endorsed in advance by (Israel’s leader Ehud) Barak, outlining the main points of a future settlement.
When Clinton finished, Arafat said no. Abbas will see Arafat’s no and raise him 999. Jerusalem Post, Tuesday:
“We say 1000 ‘no’s to this deal,” Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said.
Don’t mention the war. The Tower Magazine, May 2016:
Abbas is profoundly fascinated by Nazi propaganda and has employed it in his own writings, particularly in his doctoral dissertation on the subject of the Holocaust, “The Other Face: The Secret Connections Between Nazism and the Leadership of the Zionist Movement”, which he wrote in Moscow in 1982.
Read the commentary in The Australian.