Before his address at the UN General Assembly in New York, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas ★ gave a short speech at the Cooper Union, a university in downtown Manhattan, at an event sponsored by Churches for Middle East Peace. While some of the pre-event fury was led by pro-Israel students who believed that the mere presence of a Palestinian representative was somehow an affront to Jewish people, a number of locals decided to picket the event for other reasons. #US #Palestine #FreePalestine In New York, Mahmoud Abbas gives weak rhetoric about freedom... https://middleeastmonitor/articles/middle-east/14328-in-new-york-mahmoud-abbas-gives-weak-rhetoric-about-freedom
Posted on: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 02:55:56 +0000
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