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What The Mainstream Media Leaves Out

The AP and AFP reported on Mahmoud Abbas' speech at the annual Fatah rally–held on the 42nd anniversary of Fatah's establishment, and hey, do the math and it doesn't come out to 1967–but they didn't tell you what Mahmoud Abbas really said. IMRA did, as did the Jerusalem Post.

Appealing to Palestinians to avoid civil war, Abbas said: "We are all one people regardless of differences of opinion. My top priority is to preserve national unity, because Palestinian infighting and blood are a red line that must not be crossed."

Defending his call to use weapons against Israel, he added: "We have a legitimate right to direct our guns against Israeli occupation. It is forbidden to use these guns against Palestinians.

Funny how the AP and AFP only seem to publish the part about it being forbidden to spill Palestinian blood.

They also seem to miss the part where Abbas talks about not surrending a single grain of Jerusalem's land, and insist on the return of Palestinian refugees to Israel.

"Today more than any other day, we must hold fast to our Palestinian principles, and we will not accept a state with temporary borders," said Abbas, adding, "We will not give up one grain of [land] in Jerusalem."

Let me remind you again that 42 years ago, it was 1965, two years before the Six-Day War. There were no "Occupied Territories." There was only Israel. "Fatah" means "conquest" in Arabic, something else the media rarely points out.

Abbas is no moderate. The rifles that the U.S. is sending him will be trained on Israelis, not Hamas. But it makes a good cover for the mainstream media, and politicians who don't want to admit that the Palestinian leadership has no one that truly wants to make peace with Israel.

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