Open Letter (my second) to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Leadership

Tonight, Palestine can be back on track

President Mahmoud Abbas, during the meeting of the Central Committee of the Fatah movement.
(Photo credit: Thaer Ghanayem, wafa.ps, April 8, 2018)

Tonight is the night, we are told. The Palestinian leadership will hold an extraordinary meeting in Ramallah. Yes, another meeting. But this is not just any meeting: it is being promoted as the mother of all meetings.

This meeting comes on the heels of Israel’s swearing-in of their thirty-fifth cabinet — a coalition government, the largest government in Israel’s history, whose political platform brazenly calls for another round of annexations, this time of the West Bank. The boldness of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Alternate Prime Minister Benny Gantz emerges from the green light provided to them from the US by none other than Emperor Donald, Prince Jared, and King David (as in Ambassador David M. Friedman, whose middle name is Melech, which means “king” — you can’t make this stuff up).

The Palestinian leadership is sick and tired of being sick and tired. They promise to act tonight in a way that will shock all. I have previously volunteered my advice to the Palestinian leadership on how to restart the Palestinian political system, hold elections, and engage the world, by way of an Open Letter to Chairman of the PLO and President of the State of Palestine…