Abbas slams West's 'double standards' on Ukraine, Palestinians

"Despite the crimes of the Israeli occupation that amounted to ethnic cleansing and racial discrimination... we find no one who is holding Israel responsible for behaving as a state above the law," he said.

Well, first off it is not a crime to defend one's country. Second, where Russia invaded a country (Ukraine), Israel is not occupying another country---because there is no other country. And as for racial discrimination, that is a strange statement about racial discrimination coming from this "leader"--the Palestinian Arab population in Israel have more rights that they do in Arab nations.

Of course he is right, but he is an unliked Israeli puppet who cancelled Palestinian elections because…he will lose. Not a democratic man.

Israel is not occupying

Unbelievable chutzpah. Israel's acquisition of territory by force has been roundly condemned by the UN.

Well, first off it is not a crime to defend one's country.

Plenty of women and children have been slaughtered under that defence.

Well, first off it is not a crime to defend one's country.

So it is established, that Palestinians have the right to defend their lands.

Israel is not occupying

Anyone thinking that is not paying attention.

The problem is there are no Russian Americans in the US government with strong ties to Russia.

While there are many prominent Jews in US governments and society that always side with Israel over Palestine.

Different circumstances lead to different outcomes. Palestine should have been granted statehood decades ago. Instead their lands are shrunken by Israeli theft and the people imprisoned in Gaza and assassinated, bombed and destroyed on very dubious reasons.

Both sides have committed war crimes but as long as the US is not neutral, and always sides with and funds the Israelis, progress will not be made.

Peter14Today  08:03 pm JST

So it is established, that Palestinians have the right to defend their lands.

It isn not established that these Arabs have a land to defend since they have never had a country,

Anyone thinking that is not paying attention.

Except Israel, and the fact under international law if there is no country, there is no occupation.

The problem is there are no Russian Americans in the US government with strong ties to Russia.

While there are many prominent Jews in US governments and society that always side with Israel over Palestine.

Sounds like a conspiracy theory. Are there Jewish-Iraqi politicians in Iraq? Because Iraq recently passed a law yakign away many rights of palestinian Arabs there.

Different circumstances lead to different outcomes. Palestine should have been granted statehood decades ago.

But it wasn't.

Instead their lands are shrunken by Israeli theft and the people imprisoned in Gaza and assassinated, bombed and destroyed on very dubious reasons. 

Wrong. Palestinian Arabs rrejected the deal that would have given them a state.

Both sides have committed war crimes but as long as the US is not neutral, and always sides with and funds the Israelis, progress will not be made.

It is impossible for Israel to have committed war crimes against palestinian Arabs because Israel is not at war with them. It is defending itself against them.

It is impossible for Israel to have committed war crimes against palestinian Arabs because Israel is not at war with them. It is defending itself against them.

Tell that to the Palestinians who have to cross threw Israeli checkpoints to move around their own land that they live in.

StrangerlandToday  12:06 am JST

Tell that to the Palestinians who have to cross threw Israeli checkpoints to move around their own land that they live in.

You mean the checkpoints set up to prevent palestinian Arabs from committing terrorist attacks against Israel? They know that.

I guarantee in the country you live there are checkpoints at the airport you use to fly internationally or domestically. Any guess why they have those?

Tell that to the Palestinians who have to cross threw Israeli checkpoints to move around their own land that they live in.

You mean the checkpoints set up to prevent palestinian Arabs from committing terrorist attacks against Israel?

So there's no war, but innocent civilians cannot move freely within their lands without being shot and killed by their oppressors. Ok, boomer. Very consistent of you.

Just to be clear, there was a place called Palestine, with its own postal service, and passports and birth certificates naming Palestine as the country of birth were accepted by the countries of the world, including the US.

And many Jews had such passports and birth certificates and called themselves Palestinians.

It is also worth noting that one of the first acts of the Israeli regime was declaring those things illegal and forcing everyone they could to give them up.

Denial of reality doesn't change reality, no matter how passionate and widespread the denial is, otherwise Trump would be serving his second term as President right now.

RichardPearceToday  01:13 am JST

Just to be clear, there was a place called Palestine, with its own postal service, and passports and birth certificates naming Palestine as the country of birth were accepted by the countries of the world, including the US. 

To be clearer, it was called the Palestine Mandate.

And many Jews had such passports and birth certificates and called themselves Palestinians.

Right.

It is also worth noting that one of the first acts of the Israeli regime was declaring those things illegal and forcing everyone they could to give them up.

Regime? You mean when Israel became an actual country, and the Arabs in the Palestine Mandate rejected becoming a country?

Denial of reality doesn't change reality, no matter how passionate and widespread the denial is, otherwise Trump would be serving his second term as President right now.

Sure. Where is the denial?

Paestinian territories are named that because it is Palestinian land. Israel frequently steal that land for illegal settlement building.

Imprisoning everyone in Gaza ghetto is a crime, as is destroying parts of it whenever Israel desires.

Palestinians have the right to protect themselves, their homes, their families and their lands and to fight for their freedom from their Israeli opressors.

A two state solution was promised, but never one put forward that gives equal rights to both sides, because Israel contols the narrative, and how little the State of Palestine would ever have.