Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, now in the fourteenth year of his four-year term, delivered a speech to the Central Council of the Palestine Liberation Organization that directs a curse at President Trump, insults the U.S. ambassadors to Israel and the United Nations, and denies that Israel has anything to do with Judaism..  The New York Times responded that Abbas "shied away from urging the kind of provocative acts, like ending the Palestinian Authority's security cooperation with Israel or disbanding the authority itself, that could raise the costs of occupation for Israel and shake officials in Jerusalem and Washington." Many Google sources on the speech included the curse that Abbas directed at President Trump: "'may your house be demolished."  ABC News included the curse and also a call from the PLO to suspend recognition of Israel and end security cooperation with the Jewish...(Read Full Post)