Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said he would be willing to speak to the Knesset, but only on the issues he chooses.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a public statement last week called on Abbas to address the Knesset and said he would travel to Ramallah to speak to the PA leadership.
“Netanyahu comes up with an offer and then immediately puts forward his own terms — that this and that should be said and so on. No, if those terms are put forward, I do not accept that,” Abbas told the Voice of Russia in remarks broadcast Nov. 22. “But if he wants me to come and say the things I want to say, then I am ready to do it.”
Abbas said there would be a “full-fledged” Palestinian state with “the capital in holy Jerusalem.” He said the Palestinian Authority currently is not discussing efforts to push forward a bid for full membership in the United Nations. — jta