Abbas comes to Ankara and pledges to go to Gaza

On 15 August, Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Chairman and Palestinian Authority (PA) President, Mahmoud Abbas, addressed the Turkish Parliament at the invitation of Turkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Referential invitation: Mahmoud Abbas on the floor of the Turkish Parliament The scene in Ankara contrasted with another spectacle that took place three weeks earlier in Washington, when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the United States Congress. The indicted Israeli war criminal, who has failed to achieve his military objectives in Gaza, was received in Washington with much fanfare as he pushed for war against Iran and cynically justified prolonging his genocidal Gaza campaign against the Palestinians. Netanyahu’s performance was pathetic and full of flagrant lies and hubris. Almost immediately after […]