[ April 23, 2024 ]
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas emerged from a weeklong stint at the hospital to say it was the “Jerusalem issue” that put him there in the first place.
“If I entered the hospital for Jerusalem,” he said, “I want to leave while Jerusalem is our capital.”
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His remarks came as President Donald Trump moved the U.S. Embassy to Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, sparking other countries like Guatemala to follow suit. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at least six other nations are considering the same move.
Abbas has heavily criticized the action, denouncing America, Trump and Israel. And a week ago, he was admitted to the hospital with a fever doctors feared may have been a negative result of his recent ear surgery.
From CBS:
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was discharged from a West Bank hospital on Monday, ending a weeklong stay that drew new attention to the 83-year-old’s long history of health problems and his refusal to name a deputy or successor. Wearing a dark suit and speaking in a steady voice, Abbas said he would quickly return to work and thanked supporters all over the world for checking in on him while he was in hospital.
“Thank God I’m discharged from the hospital today with good health, and will return back to work from tomorrow,” Abbas said.
But he hinted that the heavy work load and stress of the U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital had affected his health.
“If I entered the hospital for Jerusalem, I want to leave while Jerusalem is our capital,” he told reporters in a brief statement.
The Palestinians strongly objected to the U.S. decision on Jerusalem, and the move of the American Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem this month. The Palestinians believe the U.S. move undercuts their claim to Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem as the capital of a future state, and Abbas has since frozen ties with the Americans.
He was hospitalized last weekend with a fever, just days after undergoing ear surgery. Palestinian officials said he had pneumonia and was on a respirator, receiving antibiotics intravenously. Abbas allies insisted he was in good health, but day after day he remained hospitalized, and on Sunday, plans to release him were abruptly pushed back.
Abbas, a longtime smoker with weight problems, has a long history of health issues, ranging from heart trouble to a bout with prostate cancer a decade ago.
Two years ago, he underwent an emergency heart procedure after suffering exhaustion and chest pains. More recently, a cardiologist moved into the presidential compound in Ramallah to monitor the longtime leader after a mysterious hospital visit in the United States. That visit followed Abbas’ address to the U.N. Security Council, in which he appeared weak.
The series of health scares have revived anxiety over a potential or even bloody succession battle. After more than a decade of avoiding discussion of the post-Abbas era, Palestinian officials have cautiously begun to breach the matter in the open, mostly by playing down the crisis, even while potential successors are quietly jockeying for position.
“Some are using the president’s illness for political gain. Shame on them,” said Jibril Rajoub, one of the would-be successors.
Abbas Zaki, a top official in Abbas’ ruling Fatah party, dodged the question of succession, saying the Palestine Liberation Organization, an umbrella governing body, “will be in charge if the president’s post is empty.”
Abbas took over as a caretaker leader following the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in 2004, and was elected for what was supposed to be a five-year term the following year.
A political split with Hamas – the Palestinian militant group that seized the Gaza Strip in 2007 – has prevented new elections. He has remained in office since then, governing parts of the West Bank.
Abbas assumed office with great hopes. Preaching a message of non-violence, he helped end a Palestinian uprising that was going on at the time and pursued peace talks with the Israelis in hopes of establishing an independent Palestinian state.
But talks broke down after the election of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 2009, and the two sides have been unable to agree on the terms of negotiations for nearly a decade.
The continued rift with Hamas has further hurt Abbas’ legacy, and repeated attempts have failed to advance Palestinian reconciliation.
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46 Comments
5 years ago
Numerous risk factors, as far as his health is concerned.
5 years ago
To bad it wasn’t in the ground
5 years ago
Reply to
Hook
Agree. Trump was conned by Abbas initially but when he found out the truth boy was he mad as hell at the jihadi http://bit.ly/2rOmfyJ
That’s when he decided enough is enough and that inspite of huge opposition led to shifting of Embassy to Jerusalem and No more funding to the jihadis.
5 years ago
Reply to
Hook
Agreed, the man is a vile, a terrorist a-hole; Hell will have a special spot for him… he and Arafat can swap stories or Virgins, non-Martyr virgins who didn’t make it to paradise.
5 years ago
You will get worse then…
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5 years ago
“it was the “Jerusalem issue” that put him there”
Who would have thought it was that easy?
Next stop Ramallah and the world will be rid of him.
5 years ago
Was that all it took? Awesome, let’s ramp it up!!
5 years ago
No decent hospitals in his little sh*thole area, so the Jews must’ve saved this bastards life, again!!!
5 years ago
Reply to
Thomas Faddis
…my prevailing question…..why in God’s name would they save this evil bastardo?
5 years ago
I can only wonder what lowlife the pals will come up with after Abbas? Will it be hamas? Will it be Bargouti the murderer in jail? Isis? Iran? Gideon Levy?
5 years ago
Western medicine saves the day! I wish he stuck to camel urine.
5 years ago
Poor lamb! I would shed a tear, unfortunately I am too busy right now!
The old crook got sick just because Jerusalem IS Israel’s capital? He hasn’t seen anything yet.
5 years ago
Reply to
Atikva
He’s upset because a week in the hospital takes him away from planning the deaths of his own women and children in the next attack or “protest’ as CNN calls it.
5 years ago
Sung to the tune of Tom Lehrer’s Werner Von Braun:
Gather round while I sing you of a moderate muslim clown
a man whose veracity is ruled by mendacity
call him a moderate, he won’t even frown
at his research in rocketry in old Gaza town
Don’t say that he’s an islamist
Say rather that he’s an moderist
once the rockets are up
who cares where they come down
that’s not my department says Abbas with a frown
some have harsh words for this muslim of renown
but some think kuffar attitude should be one of gratitude
like the terrorist pensioners of old Gaza town
who owe their large pensions to kufar jizya he’s found
Abbas tells the kufar it’s easy to piss-on-ya
Once you’ve learned to count kufar jizya
in dollars and sheckels and yen
and soon Chinese yuan says Abbas with a grin
5 years ago
”On that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples. All who lift it will surely HURT themselves ”
Zechariah 12:3
Did you get it Abbas?
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5 years ago
Free Palestine from ISLAM!
5 years ago
The US media’s six lies about Hamas https://www.liberationnews.org/the-us-medias-six-lies-about-hamas/
5 years ago
Reply to
Kat Mandu
Why don’t you shove a kassam rocket up your bunghole and light it off for allah the barbarian?
5 years ago
Reply to
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
I blocked the Muslim troll “kat” a long time ago….join me.
5 years ago
Reply to
Kat Mandu
5 years ago
The lovely Palestinians will always find an excuse to blame others for their problems, (Israel, US UK, UN, Arab countries…..) except themselves.
5 years ago
Their “book” the Koran does NOT even mention Jerusalem. He truly was sick.
5 years ago
They have no sense of ridicule in their victimhood. (Nor a sense of gratitude to those who cure them, or to those who are a large part of the Nobel Prize in medicine, etc.)
5 years ago
It was Allahs will that he got I’ll.
5 years ago
Jerusalem never was ‘your capital’ and never will be. As a matter of fact, you are a FAKE people: No such thing as ‘Palestinians.’
Besides, if you don’t like the heat get out of the kitchen and sit your old, evil, antisemitic …down.
5 years ago
Reply to
WM1
Palestine is a made up word. After crushing the Bar Kochba rebellion, in 135CE, the Roman occupiers decided to annihilate all Jewish hope for freedom. Now how did they do that? They named Jerusalem Aelia Capitolina, and they also gave the land of Judea a new name: Syria-Palestina. This is the actual origin of the name “Palestine.” There is no mention of Palestine in the Koran.
5 years ago
Reply to
WM1
….correct….they have always been nomadic people across the desert…..they never had claim to any land….until those Muslims wanted to wipe out the Jews in Jerusalem….there is no such thing as “palestinians”…..
5 years ago
Reply to
WM1
A group of terrorists making Fake claims about land that they never owned, even when the British owned it, even when the turks owned it.
British and Turks actually gave Israel recognition!
FREE PALESTINE = BDS (BULL DOG SH**T!)
5 years ago
Too bad it wasn’t fatal!
5 years ago
Oh course he blames Israel…..what is new about this? Yawnnnnnnn
5 years ago
These clowns claim that Jesus was a muslim even though islam wasn’t invented until 600 years later.
5 years ago
abbas is nothing but an IDIOT that is used by hamas and i-ran.
5 years ago
A two-faced terrorist, Abbas gives me cause me not to negate the benefits of euthanasia.
5 years ago
Abbad seems not to understand that Satan the devil put him into the hospital.
5 years ago
How anybody besides Israel can lay claim to Jerusalem is completely beyond my comprehension. Jerusalem has been the Capitol since way before mohammed went into his cave or rode on his flying horse. It is funny that even the rest of the muslim countries do not want the palestinians, they just want to keep the issue alive.
5 years ago
mohammad was no prophet…he was not the “Son of God” Jesus Christ is.
mo was phony, a killer, a jihadi, a pillager, a child rapist…Jerusalem is forever the capitol of Israel…not phony palestine. Jerusalem is Canaan.
muslims should go back to jordan or Saudi if they want to worship mohammad the phony.
5 years ago
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, the god you are think for your hospital release is SATAN, the only god you and him have in common is to kill, steal and destroy your fellow man. God in Jesus’ name I pray He forgives you.
