{"id":16440,"date":"2020-09-04T11:37:35","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T06:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=16440"},"modified":"2020-09-04T11:37:35","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T06:37:35","slug":"abbas-no-one-is-authorized-to-speak-on-our-behalf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/16440","title":{"rendered":"Abbas: &#8216;No one is authorized to speak on our behalf&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>RAMALLAH, Palestine\/BEIRUT, Lebanon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday said that &#8220;pressures have increased on us since the start of the year, and the Arab [countries] didn&#8217;t abide by their financial commitments towards us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>During a video conference with heads of the Palestinian groups in Ramallah and Beirut, Abbas said that &#8220;from now on, no one is authorized to speak on our behalf, we only speak for our cause.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The intra-Palestinian meeting was held to discuss ways to prevent Israeli annexation plans in the occupied West Bank, which also came at a time when the UAE announced a normalization agreement with Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Abbas stressed that the Palestinian Authority rejected the US to be the only mediator in any negotiations with Israel.<\/p>\n<p>He also called for an international peace conference under the supervision of the UN based on the Arab peace initiative.<\/p>\n<p>For his part, Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh said in his speech that the US&#8217; so-called Deal of the Century aims to create a regional coalition that allow Israel to penetrate into the Arab countries via normalization.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are going through a period that contains unprecedented risks and strategic threats to our Palestinian cause and to the region,&#8221; Haniyeh said.<\/p>\n<p>He also called for establishing a political program that ends the ramifications of the Oslo Accords and to regain the Palestinian unity.<\/p>\n<p>On Aug. 13, the UAE and Israel announced a US-brokered agreement to normalize their relations, including opening embassies in each other&#8217;s territory.<\/p>\n<p>The Palestinian Authority and resistance factions have denounced the UAE-Israel deal, saying it does not serve the Palestinian cause and ignores the rights of Palestinians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAMALLAH, Palestine\/BEIRUT, Lebanon Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday said that &#8220;pressures have increased on us since the start of the year, and the Arab [countries] didn&#8217;t abide by their financial commitments towards us.&#8221; During a video conference with heads of the Palestinian groups in Ramallah and Beirut, Abbas said that &#8220;from now on, no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1477],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-palestine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16441,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16440\/revisions\/16441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}