Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas dropped a "bombshell" today (September 30, 2015), when he declared before world leaders that he is no longer bound by agreements signed with Israel, and called on the United Nations to provide international protection for the Palestinian people, according to the Washington Post website.
Abbas, 80, said that Israel's refusal to commit to agreements signed "render us an authority without real powers." Israel did not comment on Abbas's shocking declaration.
"As long as Israel refuses to cease settlement activities [on land it seized from Palestinians in a 1967 war] and to the release of the fourth group of Palestinian prisoners in accordance to our agreements, they leave us no choice but to insist that we will remain the only ones committed to the implementation of those agreements, while Israel continuously violates them," Abbas said.
"We therefore declare that we cannot continue to be bound by these agreements and that Israel must assume all of its responsibilities as an occupying power," he concluded.
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