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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Abbas says he will ask Israel to take over as a last resort
2010-12-05
[Pak Daily Times] Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas has warned he may dissolve his self-rule government and ask Israel to resume full control of the West Bank if troubled peace talks fail.
Just the West Bank, though. De-facto President Abbas hasn't the power to surrender the Gaza Strip, thank goodness.
Dismantling the Paleostinian Authority would be a last resort, Abbas told Paleostine TV in an interview broadcast late Friday. If all efforts fail, Abbas said, "I will tell the Americans and the Israelis, come and put an end to all this. I can't continue like this. We have an occupation and we don't. No, keep it all and release me (from my responsibility)." However,
The infamous However...
 his comments marked the most explicit warning yet that he's considering a step that could crush lingering hopes for a Mideast peace deal. Abbas has said that if peace negotiations collapse, the Paleostinians might seek unilateral UN recognition of a state in the West Bank, Gazoo and east Jerusalem, territories Israel captured in the 1967 Mideast War.
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