PALESTINIAN MEDIA WATCH
by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik
June 6, 2014
Former Hamas government spokesman Ihab al-Ghussein announced today that in private meetings with Hamas, Mahmoud Abbas insists that he is lying in his public statements in order to “trick the Americans”:
“When I go out [publicly] and say that the [PA] government is my [Abbas] government and it recognizes ‘Israel’ and so on, fine -these words are meant to trick the Americans.”
Al-Ghussein, who was Hamas government spokesman until the advent of the new unity government with Fatah, posted these words about Abbas’s duplicity on his Facebook page. Palestinian Media Watch has reported extensively on PA duplicity in its book Deception: Betraying the Peace Process.
At the end of the post he laughs at those Palestinians who trust Abbas and the reconciliation.
The following is the post describing Abbas’ “tricking the Americans”:
“You know what Mahmoud Abbas says behind closed doors?? He says: ‘Guys, let me [continue] saying what I say to the media. Those words are meant for the Americans and the occupation (i.e., Israel), not for you [Hamas].
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