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BWAHAHAHAHA: 'Palestinians' want to take Kerry to ICC for 'threatening' Abu Bluff

This is not a parody....

The Fatah terror organization wants to sue US Secretary of State John FN Kerry before the International Criminal Court for - get this - threatening the life of 'moderate' 'Palestinian' President Mahmoud Abbas Abu Mazen. This is from the first link.

US Secretary of State John Kerry recently threatened Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas that he would meet the same fate as his predecessor, Yasser Arafat, if he turned down Washington’s proposals for peace with Israel, a Palestinian source was quoted Sunday as saying.

Jamal Muhaissen, a senior Fatah official in the West Bank, said that if the report about Kerry’s threat to Abbas is true, “this shows that Israel assassinated Yasser Arafat after receiving a green light from the US Administration.”

Muhaissen said that Kerry’s threat comes in wake of his failure to impose a settlement on Israel that is “consistent with international law.”

Kerry should not hold the Palestinians responsible for his failure with the Israelis, the Fatah official added.

“If true, Kerry’s threat paves the way for bringing him before the International Criminal Court for threatening the life of an elected Palestinian president,” Muhaissen said.

Threatening the life of a WHAT?

But wait for it - it gets better.

A Palestinian source told the daily Rai al-Youm that Abbas angrily stormed out of a four-hour meeting with Kerry in Ramallah after the latter exerted pressure on him to accept the proposals.

The source claimed that Kerry told Abbas that his fate would not be “less than that of Yasser Arafat.”

Does Kerry know something we don't? 

But wiat for it: There's more.

Kerry’s proposals were received with shock and rejection by Abbas, the source added.

The source said that Kerry’s proposals do not meet the minimum of Palestinian aspirations and Abbas’s promises to his people.

“Abbas wants future generations to remember him as a hero who managed to achieve for his people what the largest Arab powers and parties failed to obtain in all their wars with Israel,” the unnamed source explained.

Well, given that Abu Mazen was convinced that he would get more by rejecting Olmert's offer in 2008 and Netanyahu is offering less, it's no great surprise he's disappointed. 

But why did Kerry think this would end differently? What could go wrong?

Labels: Abu Mazen, International Criminal Court, John Kerry

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 9:32 PM