... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...is pledging to continue security coordination with Israel, despite recent US funding cuts to Paleostinian security forces and years of impasse in the grinding of the peace processor.
Abbas tells a gathering of Paleostinian and Israeli activists on Wednesday that his government has counter-terrorism agreements with nearly 100 countries, including Israel.
He says the West Bank government has a "joint agreement to fight terrorism" with Israel and "will not violate it" ‐ because if it does, "nothing will remain."
He adds that he hopes that a party committed to peace would succeed in the upcoming Israeli elections.
The US cut all aid to the Paleostinian Authority, including $61 million in security assistance, when an anti-terrorism law took effect last week. The forces are considered crucial for Paleostinian and Israeli safety.
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Abbas made the comment less than a week after the State Department stopped providing aid to PA security forces at Ramallah’s request.
"We still have a relationship with the [American] security services in order to fight terrorism in the world," the PA president said in an interview with Sputnik, a Russian state-run news site.