Does Abbas Recognize Israel as a Jewish State?

In President Obama’s blindside of an interview with Jeffrey Goldberg, finely timed for Prime Minister Netanyahu’s arrival in Washington and the opening of the AIPAC conference, Obama made the following, revealing remark, “I believe that President Abbas is sincere about his willingness to recognize Israel and its right to exist.”

This is no small matter — everything stands and falls with Abbas’s willingness to recognize Israel as a Jewish state, or in other words, his willingness to renounce the Palestinians’ “right of return” to Israel proper.