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Abbas faults Israel for coming global terror


By Jerusalem Newswire Editorial Staff
July 27, 2005

PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas Wednesday attempted to preemptively blame Israel for future Islamic terror attacks on the international community in an interview with the United Arab Emirates-based newspaper al Khaleej.

If Prime Minister Ariel Sharon did not follow up his planned ?disengagement? from Gaza and northern Samaria by capitulating to all Arab demands, he alone ?would be held responsible for disturbances that would ensue in the region and all around the world,? Abbas insisted.

Earlier this month, the G8 Summit in Gleneagles, Scotland released a statement suggesting Israel's failure to conclude a final peace agreement with the PLO was a root cause of the recent Islamic terrorist assault on London.

Abbas said his regime was opposed to prematurely declaring a Palestinian Arab state in Gaza following the Israeli pullout, and was holding fast to its demand that Gaza and the ?West Bank? be forged into ?one geographical unit.?

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice supported the idea of a land bridge between Gaza and Judea during her meeting with Abbas at the weekend.

Physically connecting Gaza and PA-controlled Judea would effectively cut Israel in half, an objective the Arab world sought but failed to achieve in three full-scale wars against the Jewish state.

Many Israelis fear the open Gaza borders Washington is insisting on and the free flow of ?Palestinian? traffic through sovereign Israel will bring an unprecedented level of terrorism.

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