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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is disillusioned by President Obama. He tells NEWSWEEK's Dan Ephron that Obama, who seemed open to helping the Palestinian cause before his election, quickly cooled once he got into officeand at a crucial moment, betrayed him.
Things came to a head earlier this year when Obama called Abbas before a critical United Nations vote on Israeli settlements in the West Bank. For almost an hour, Abbas says, Obama tried to get the Palestinian leader to withdraw the resolutionusing first carrots then sticks, threatening that Congress might not approve the hundreds of millions of dollars America gives to the Palestinians in aid.
When Abbas refused to stand down, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called with added pressure. Still, Abbas wasn't prepared for what happened next.
When the resolution came to a vote, the Palestinian president, to his dismay, discovered that the Americans would vote against the Palestinians and veto the resolution.
It was Obama who suggested a full settlement freeze, Abbas told Ephron in one of several exclusive interviews during a whirlwind trip last week that took the Palestinian leader from Jordan to Tunisia to France, where he met with President Nicolas Sarkozy. Abbas recounted that he told Obama, OK, I accept. Then, he said, We both went up the tree. After that, he came down with a ladder and he removed the ladder and said to me, jump. Three times he did it.
We both went up the tree. After that, (Obama) came down with a ladder and he removed the ladder and said to me, jump.
Mahmoud Abbas Interview: Palestinian Leader's Frustration with Obama - The Daily Beast
Most likely Obama was under pressure from AIPAC and other Zionist Jewish organizations.
Hopefully Obama will win a second term and be able to do the right thing with out Israeli Jew pressure.
The American support for Israel is softening every day.
People are beginning to realize that Israel is the problem.
Israel is an apartheid terrorist nation that is propped up by American money and weapons .
It might take another 10 or 20 years but Israel will become isolated and rejected by the nations of the world.
Then Israel will have to accept the Palestinian terms are just cease to exist.
A new poll conducted by American news network CNN has reported that 67 percent of the American public feel sympathy for Israelis and not Palestinians, compared with 16% who claim to side with the Palestinians rather than Israel.
The poll was conducted by telephone from May 24-26. 1,007 adult Americans were asked their opinions on several different countries, including Israel.
The results show that pro-Israel feelings are on the rise in the United States. In a similar survey conducted in 2009, only 60 percent of the population sample expressed pro-Israel feelings, while 17%, one percentage point higher than 2011's poll, claimed to sympathize with the Palestinians.
In addition to the high numbers expressing sympathy with Israeli, 82% of the audience said they felt Israel was either a friend or ally of the United States. Twelve percent said they did not regard Israel as a friend, and 5% classified the country as an US enemy. Only Great Britain received higher marks of friendship, with 98% of the polling audience calling that nation either a friend or ally.
CNN poll shows rise in American sympathy... JPost - International
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is disillusioned by President Obama. He tells NEWSWEEK's Dan Ephron that Obama, who seemed open to helping the Palestinian cause before his election, quickly cooled once he got into officeand at a crucial moment, betrayed him.
Things came to a head earlier this year when Obama called Abbas before a critical United Nations vote on Israeli settlements in the West Bank. For almost an hour, Abbas says, Obama tried to get the Palestinian leader to withdraw the resolutionusing first carrots then sticks, threatening that Congress might not approve the hundreds of millions of dollars America gives to the Palestinians in aid.
When Abbas refused to stand down, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called with added pressure. Still, Abbas wasn't prepared for what happened next.
When the resolution came to a vote, the Palestinian president, to his dismay, discovered that the Americans would vote against the Palestinians and veto the resolution.
It was Obama who suggested a full settlement freeze, Abbas told Ephron in one of several exclusive interviews during a whirlwind trip last week that took the Palestinian leader from Jordan to Tunisia to France, where he met with President Nicolas Sarkozy. Abbas recounted that he told Obama, OK, I accept. Then, he said, We both went up the tree. After that, he came down with a ladder and he removed the ladder and said to me, jump. Three times he did it.
We both went up the tree. After that, (Obama) came down with a ladder and he removed the ladder and said to me, jump.
Mahmoud Abbas Interview: Palestinian Leader's Frustration with Obama - The Daily Beast
It was also Obama who set the acceptance of the 1949 ceasefire line as a pre condition for renewing talks, and most dangerous of all, it was Obama who set September as the deadline for the creation of a Palestinian state and now, being forced to face the political realities, will have to veto the PA's bid for UN recognition, a move that many think may touch off a third intifada leaving thousands more dead.
The American support for Israel is softening every day.
People are beginning to realize that Israel is the problem.
Israel is an apartheid terrorist nation that is propped up by American money and weapons .
It might take another 10 or 20 years but Israel will become isolated and rejected by the nations of the world.
Then Israel will have to accept the Palestinian terms are just cease to exist.
