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Abbas: We'll stick to 'Arafat's Path'


Source: Israel National News
November 12, 2006

Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) at the weekend pledged that the PA would not stray from the road towards Israel's destruction forged by arch-terrorist Yasser Arafat.

Speaking at a Ramallah event commemorating the second anniversary of Arafat's death, Abbas assured his people that the "Palestinian" leadership would never give up trying to secure the implementation of the so-called right of return.

According to this "right," Arabs who became refugees in 1948-49 and 1967, together with their children, must be allowed to return to their former homes inside the Jewish state.

Israel flatly rejects this "right," saying Israel would not survivee the influx of so many Arabs.

Israel also insists that there was a de facto exchange of populations at that time as around 800,000 Jews were forced to flee Arab states and Israel absorbed them.

Abbas, who for decades served as a senior official during Arafat's terror war against Israel, has successfully got the western world to regard him as a "moderate."

Nonetheless, in his writings and speeches, he has made it clear that he still supports the eventual eradication of Israel from the Middle East.

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