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<h1 class="reader-title">Abbas is a mouthpiece for international
impositions on Palestine</h1>
<div class="credits reader-credits">Ramona Wadi<span> - February
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<p>The Palestinian Authority has learned nothing from
decades of futile UN Security Council Resolutions. Do
the people of Palestine really need international
consensus regarding the already very clear illegality of
US President Donald Trump’s so-called deal of the
century?</p>
<p>Pushing on regardless, PA leader Mahmoud Abbas is
pursuing repetitive, useless and time-wasting options to
give an impression of being engaged diplomatically with
the international community and its impositions. While
Abbas pleads at the UN to obtain another symbolic show
of alleged international support, Israeli Ambassador to
the UN Danny Danon is lobbying the Security Council “to
enlist their support for the joint US-Israeli action and
to prevent support for any Palestinian declarations of
protest.”</p>
<p>The draft resolution <a
href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/palestinians-float-un-resolution-against-trump-peace-plan/"
target="_blank">calls</a> for a rejection of Trump’s
deal and seeks yet another endorsement of the two-state
compromise, despite the impossibility of its
implementation. Abbas’s refusal to consider a unified
Palestinian approach that encompasses all legitimate
forms of resistance against Israeli colonisation makes
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres’s job of presiding
over the constant Israeli violations of international
law and human rights easier. As long as the PA scrambles
after the international community for a solution, the UN
only has to regurgitate the same rhetoric about its
two-state vision. Accountability in this regard is not
applicable, as the PA and the UN know full well.</p>
<p>In what would now be perceived as a weak condemnation
of Trump’s deal, Guterres cautioned against “actions
that would erode the possibility of a viable and
contiguous Palestinian state,” with reference to Israeli
settlement expansion. However, the US-Israeli scheming
goes beyond expansion to formal, rather than merely
fact-on-the-ground annexation. The UN is, as usual,
several strategic steps behind, so as not to run out of
the plethora of violations to speak out against during
opportune moments in which the Palestinian cause is
exploited yet again.</p>
<p>If the US vetoes the resolution, which is certain, the
PA is likely to get another round of passive support
from the UN General Assembly. For Abbas, a show of votes
might be enough to claim validity, yet again, for the
two-state compromise, as opposed to Palestinians’
political rights. The truth, however, is that the
international community has only supported rhetoric
about Palestinian rights. Altering its trajectory now
would spell disaster for the UN in terms of its own
complicity in endorsing Israel’s colonisation of
Palestine. Hence, the cautious warnings against
settlement expansion while refusing to advocate in
favour of decolonisation. Likewise, the UN will
entertain Abbas and his overtures because the PA has
proved that it squanders any potential for change.</p>
<p>Trump’s deal is the least of the international
community’s concerns. Abbas is only accentuating his
irrelevance with resolution gimmicks at the UN.
Palestinians are voiceless at the UN primarily because
of the UN’s protection of Israel, but also due to Abbas
consolidating his role as spokesman for international
demands and counter-narratives about what Palestinians
want. A resolution confirming what is already known
makes no difference to the political violence that
Israel continues to inflict upon Palestinians. The PA
should be turning towards its own people, as it should
have done on previous occasions and refused, instead of
wasting time at the UN for yet another opportunity to
lament about delays.</p>
<p><strong>READ: <a title="The schizophrenia of Mahmoud
Abbas as he looks for an ‘honourable end’"
href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20200204-the-schizophrenia-of-mahmoud-abbas-as-he-looks-for-an-honourable-end/">The
schizophrenia of Mahmoud Abbas as he looks for an
‘honourable end’</a></strong></p>
<p>The views expressed in this article belong to the
author and do not necessarily reflect the editorial
policy of Middle East Monitor.</p>
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