The situation of the Palestinian Authority is grim. Its diplomatic offensive against Israel in the United Nations did not win it statehood, there are no serious negotiations with Israel because the PA refuses them, Hamas controls Gaza, and Palestinian elections keep getting postponed despite the “Arab Spring” and the wave of elections in Arab countries. Internally, relations between Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad were recently so poor that for several days Abbas apparently refused even to speak to Fayyad.
So what is on Abbas’s mind right now? The Jews of Iraq, and they way they were driven out of that blessed land … by the Zionists. Here in Arabic, and here in English translation from MEMRI, is his text from an article published April 4th.
