Abbas: Palestinian Violence Is "Justified Popular Uprising"

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Abbas: Palestinian Violence Is "Justified Popular Uprising"

By MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH, ASSOCIATED PRESS
RAMALLAH, West Bank — Dec 14, 2015, 2:05 PM ET

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas referred to the last three months of violence Monday as a "justified popular uprising".

Abbas's comments came as a new poll shows widespread Palestinian support for ongoing attacks on Israelis. Later Monday, a Palestinian from east Jerusalem rammed his car into a crowded bus stop, wounding nine before bystanders shot him dead.

Israeli leaders have accused Abbas and other Palestinian leaders of inciting the violence with incendiary rhetoric. Abbas has previously refrained from either endorsing or condemning the attacks, often referring to the wave of violence as understandable but not in the best interests of the Palestinian people.

"We cannot ask the youth why they are going out (to revolt)," Abbas said in Ramallah. "They just despaired of the two-state solution."

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Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/police-palestinian-dead-ramming-israelis-wounding-35753827

[azurnoir]

1. Strangely Israeli news tell it differently

The survey found that 51% of the Palestinian public (67% in the Gaza Strip and 40% in the West Bank) believe that most of the Palestinian fatalities during attacks were in fact trying to stab, or had stabbed, Israelis. But 47% believe that most of those killed during reported attacks were not attempting to carry out stabbings.

Speaking on Monday, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said that young Palestinian demonstrators were “driven by despair over the lack of a two-state solution.”

But the PSR survey, which interviewed 1,270 people in 127 randomly selected locations, showed just 45% of Palestinians support the two-state solution and only 34% think it is feasible due to the expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank.

According to the survey, 65% of Palestinians also want Abbas to resign, and the poll indicates that he would lose to Gaza’s Islamist rulers Hamas in a presidential election.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/poll-23-of-palestinians-back-stabbing-attacks-armed-uprising/

[oberliner]

2. That exact quote is in the OP also

They both say exactly the same thing.

[azurnoir]

3. But the headline of the OP is not

if it was ToI would have used it

[oberliner]

4. Both headlines indicate that Palestinians support stabbing attacks and armed uprising

What are you suggesting is the difference in coverage?

[King_David]

7. No difference at all. nt

[azurnoir]

8. I pointed out what Abbas said

which is significantly different from the headline of this thread

[oberliner]

10. Times of Israel has an article with Abbas's comments in the headline

I posted it down thread.

Here it is:

Abbas: ‘Justified popular unrest’ triggered by despair of young Palestinians

http://www.timesofisrael.com/abbas-wave-of-violence-due-to-despair-of-palestinian-youths/

[azurnoir]

11. Yes I know and I addressed that on your comment below

but to belabor a point I did not choose that one for a reason

[oberliner]

5. TOI: Abbas: Wave of violence due to despair of Palestinian youths

Palestinian young people’s despair at the poor political horizon is to blame for the current wave of violence, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Monday in a West Bank speech.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/abbas-wave-of-violence-due-to-despair-of-palestinian-youths/

Turns out Times of Israel did use the same headline in another article.

[azurnoir]

9. I never claimed my snip was the headline

and I did not choose that one for a reason

[oberliner]

12. Here are the two articles

Times of Israel version:

Abbas: ‘Justified popular unrest’ triggered by despair of young Palestinians

http://www.timesofisrael.com/abbas-wave-of-violence-due-to-despair-of-palestinian-youths/

ABC News version:

Abbas: Palestinian Violence Is "Justified Popular Uprising"

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/police-palestinian-dead-ramming-israelis-wounding-35753827

Here is the article you shared and the Times of Israel and AFP headlines

Times of Israel version:

Poll: 2/3 of Palestinians back stabbing attacks, armed uprising

http://www.timesofisrael.com/poll-23-of-palestinians-back-stabbing-attacks-armed-uprising/

AFP version:

Two-thirds of Palestinians support knife attacks: poll

http://news.yahoo.com/two-thirds-palestinians-support-knife-attacks-poll-164325026.html

[azurnoir]

13. I read the articles this morning

[King_David]

18. Even if you read them this morning , still not sure what you getting at..

There's absolutely no difference between the articles.

[Little Tich]

15. Abbas never said what was quoted in the headline...

Usually, that wouldn't really bother me, I would just assume it was a summary, but you had great difficulties when Bernie Sanders was summarized in another headline http://www.democraticunderground.com/1134121101#post1).

I think that you're a bit one-sided when it comes to facts.

[oberliner]

16. Great points

That is definitely a pet peeve of mine - thanks for catching it.

[shira]

17. Sure, but he's still a fascist inciting terror attacks on innocents. n/t

[Mosby]

6. 67% of Palestinians support murdering Jewish Israelis

But strangely enough I'm not allowed to say on DU what Palestinian society is devolving into.

[shira]

14. It's about time the mainstream press reported this.

The Jewish Press has been making this claim for months, with videos in Arabic....all denied by the Israel Sucks crowd.