{"id":1768245,"date":"2022-12-08T17:48:38","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T22:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1768245"},"modified":"2022-12-08T18:00:05","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T23:00:05","slug":"palestinian-president-threatens-return-to-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/palestinian-president-threatens-return-to-terrorism\/","title":{"rendered":"Palestinian President Threatens Return to Terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpalestinian-president-threatens-return-to-terrorism%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1768245&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas indicated the Palestinian Authority may turn to terrorism, saying &#8220;armed resistance&#8221; against Israel could commence any day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I do not endorse armed resistance at the moment, but\u00a0I may change my mind later,&#8221; President Mahmoud Abbas said in a recent Arabic-language interview <a href=\"https:\/\/elderofziyon.blogspot.com\/2022\/12\/abbas-says-that-pa-might-officially.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">translated<\/a> into English on the Elder of Ziyon website, a blog that tracks Israeli-Palestinian issues. &#8220;I do not adopt military resistance at this time, but\u00a0it is possible that I change my mind tomorrow or after tomorrow, or any time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Abbas&#8217;s comments come at a troubling time for his Palestinian Authority governing body, which is the weakest it has been in decades. The Iran-backed Hamas terror group, which controls the Gaza Strip, has been challenging Abbas&#8217;s power, and several armed faction groups have also joined the fray in recent months. The challenge to Abbas&#8217;s rule threatens to topple a fragile security framework with Israel that has been vital to stopping terror attacks on the Jewish state. Abbas&#8217;s most recent remarks are likely to inflame an already dangerous situation, according to Middle East observers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The assessment right now is that we have not seen this much unrest in the West Bank in pretty much 15 years,&#8221; Jonathan Schanzer, a former terrorism finance analyst at the Treasury Department who now works on Middle East issues at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies think tank, told the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Abbas &#8220;would be unwise to unleash additional chaos in the West Bank,&#8221; Schanzer said. &#8220;If things escalate too far, it is highly likely he will be among the most prominent casualties.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A return to terrorism would also shatter any hopes the Biden administration has of reigniting a long-stalled peace process between Israel and the Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p>Abbas during the <a href=\"https:\/\/ramallah.news\/post\/215299\/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%B3-%D8%B9%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B3-%D8%A7%D8%B0%D8%A7-%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D9%84-%D8%A8%D8%AA%D8%B5%D8%B1%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87%D8%A7-%D8%B3%D8%A3%D9%84%D8%BA%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%82-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%86%D9%8A-%D9%85%D8%B9%D9%87%D8%A7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview<\/a> blamed Israel for any potential change in policy, saying the Jewish state&#8217;s efforts to thwart terrorism are overly aggressive.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If Israel continues with its actions, I will cancel the security agreement with it. Why continue?&#8221; Abbas asked. &#8220;Why am I committed to security coordination? And we can breathe without security coordination. Before that, we were breathing, and our people were fighting the occupation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Palestinian Authority is losing power across the West Bank, its onetime stronghold. Israeli forces assess that the PA has already lost control of two key cities\u2014Jenin and Nablus.<\/p>\n<p>Small faction groups are also rising up to challenge Abbas&#8217;s rule in the West Bank.<\/p>\n<p>In Nablus, an<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas indicated the Palestinian Authority may turn to terrorism, saying &#8220;armed resistance&#8221; against Israel could commence any day.<br \/>\nThe post Palestinian President Threatens Return to Terrorism appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":117,"featured_media":1891529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Palestinian President Threatens Return to Terrorism","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[4092,6037,3669,5309,6039,4622],"class_list":["post-1768245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-beacon","tag-palestinian","tag-president","tag-return","tag-terrorism","tag-threatens"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Palestinian President Threatens Return to Terrorism","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1768245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1891529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1768245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1768245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1768245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}