Jerusalem – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday and said he expected him to help in efforts to find three Israeli teenagers abducted in the occupied West Bank.
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“I expect you to help in the return of the kidnapped youngsters and in catching the abductors,” a statement issued by the prime minister’s office quoted Netanyahu as telling Abbas in a telephone call.
Later the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has condemned the abduction of three Israeli teens in his first public comments since they went missing in the West Bank four days ago.
Israel has alleged the abductions were carried out by the Islamic militant group Hamas, but has also held Abbas and his self-rule government in the West Bank responsible for the fate of the three Jewish seminary students.
Earlier this month, Abbas formed a unity government that has the backing of Hamas.
In a statement Monday, his office condemned both the kidnappings and the subsequent Israeli crackdown.
The statement says “the Palestinian leadership condemns the series of events … beginning with the kidnapping of the three Israeli teens and ending with a series of Israeli violations.”
Abbas is a lame old duck in more ways than one. He is powerless to do anything of consequence. This is the result of their fascist governance. The same fascists that campus liberals world over are supporting. And people don’t believe there’s a Boreh!