.- The President of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), Mahmoud Abbas, is disappointed by the administration of U.S. president, Barack Obama, to unblock peace talks in the Middle East, according to an interview published by Newsweek. "It was Obama who suggested a full moratorium on settlements (in the West Bank).
I said, 'Ok, I agree." They climbed the tree after that, he descended the ladder and removed it, and then asked me to give the jump and three times he did, "complained Abbas, speaking figuratively about the management of EU in the Middle East. The ANP president said he was disappointed that Obama stopped the pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on the moratorium on the construction of Jewish settlements in the West Bank last year.
In the interview, Abbas recalled one occasion, on 17 February in which Obama telephoned him and, for 55 minutes, which pushed for the good of all, the Palestinians withdrew the next day his resolution before the Security Council United Nations for a cease "immediate and comprehensive" settlement.
"(Obama) said that was what suited our relations ..." and then the head of the White House noted "a list of sanctions" against the Palestinians if they continued with the resolution, said Abbas. According to the Palestinian leader, Obama warned, for example, that the U.S. Congress would reject an aid package of $ 475 million for the Palestinians.
When Abbas did not yield to abandon the Palestinian resolution, Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton and other U.S. officials continued their campaign of pressure, according to the account of the President of the PNA to Newsweek. In the interview, Abbas also complains of the mediation efforts of U.S.
special envoy, George Mitchell, who held a series of meetings with Israelis and Palestinians for more than two years. "On each visit we speak Mitchell and gave him some ideas. Then we found out that he did not transmit any of these ideas to the Israelis. What does that mean?" Said Abbas, who made clear his impatience with the slowness of the process.
"I can not wait, someone else will do it in time," said the Palestinian leader and said the time is running out. Abbas, 76, a political moderate court, represented the "best hope", according to Newsweek, for a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians succeeded by Yasser Arafat in 2004.
That optimism "was short-lived," says the magazine, after Abbas lost control of Parliament radical group Hamas, and the corruption charges against then Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, dashed the possibility of an agreement in 2008. Newsweek, which had ample access to Abbas last week, said the White House considers that the version offered by the Palestinian leader is "inaccurate." In any case, his remarks came at a time that, looking ahead to the elections of 2012 in the U.S., diplomatic efforts for the region will remain under the political radar.
The article notes that, after winning reelection in 1996, then-President Bill Clinton did the Israelis start to agree on a partial withdrawal in the West Bank. In the article, the magazine points out that in the face of next September, Abbas seeks to raise support for a UN resolution that would allow the creation of a Palestinian state, similar to the process that led to the creation of the Israeli state for over 60 years.
If Abbas leaves the political stage without an agreement, it added to uncertainty in the region, which spans a time of great social and political turbulence, the magazine added. 
I said, 'Ok, I agree." They climbed the tree after that, he descended the ladder and removed it, and then asked me to give the jump and three times he did, "complained Abbas, speaking figuratively about the management of EU in the Middle East. The ANP president said he was disappointed that Obama stopped the pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on the moratorium on the construction of Jewish settlements in the West Bank last year.
In the interview, Abbas recalled one occasion, on 17 February in which Obama telephoned him and, for 55 minutes, which pushed for the good of all, the Palestinians withdrew the next day his resolution before the Security Council United Nations for a cease "immediate and comprehensive" settlement.
"(Obama) said that was what suited our relations ..." and then the head of the White House noted "a list of sanctions" against the Palestinians if they continued with the resolution, said Abbas. According to the Palestinian leader, Obama warned, for example, that the U.S. Congress would reject an aid package of $ 475 million for the Palestinians.
When Abbas did not yield to abandon the Palestinian resolution, Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton and other U.S. officials continued their campaign of pressure, according to the account of the President of the PNA to Newsweek. In the interview, Abbas also complains of the mediation efforts of U.S.
special envoy, George Mitchell, who held a series of meetings with Israelis and Palestinians for more than two years. "On each visit we speak Mitchell and gave him some ideas. Then we found out that he did not transmit any of these ideas to the Israelis. What does that mean?" Said Abbas, who made clear his impatience with the slowness of the process.
"I can not wait, someone else will do it in time," said the Palestinian leader and said the time is running out. Abbas, 76, a political moderate court, represented the "best hope", according to Newsweek, for a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians succeeded by Yasser Arafat in 2004.
That optimism "was short-lived," says the magazine, after Abbas lost control of Parliament radical group Hamas, and the corruption charges against then Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, dashed the possibility of an agreement in 2008. Newsweek, which had ample access to Abbas last week, said the White House considers that the version offered by the Palestinian leader is "inaccurate." In any case, his remarks came at a time that, looking ahead to the elections of 2012 in the U.S., diplomatic efforts for the region will remain under the political radar.
The article notes that, after winning reelection in 1996, then-President Bill Clinton did the Israelis start to agree on a partial withdrawal in the West Bank. In the article, the magazine points out that in the face of next September, Abbas seeks to raise support for a UN resolution that would allow the creation of a Palestinian state, similar to the process that led to the creation of the Israeli state for over 60 years.
If Abbas leaves the political stage without an agreement, it added to uncertainty in the region, which spans a time of great social and political turbulence, the magazine added.
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