Action reaction. This Saturday, the President of the State of Palestine Mahmoud Abbas announced that his country would “reexamine” its relations with Washington after the American veto two days earlier. “The Palestinian leadership will review bilateral relations with the United States to ensure the preservation of the interests of our people, our cause and our rights,” President Abbas said in an interview with the Palestinian Wafa news agency.
But what did the United States do to anger Abbas? The Palestinians, who since 2012 have had the lower status of “non-member observer state” at the UN, asked the Security Council to accept that a “Palestinian state” already recognized by the majority of capitals takes its place. legitimate” within the United Nations.
“No more instability, chaos and terrorism”
But the United States, which did everything to delay the vote, did not hesitate to use its right of veto which it regularly uses to protect its Israeli ally.
The US veto has “sparked unprecedented anger among Palestinians and people in the region, potentially pushing the region towards greater instability, chaos and terrorism,” President Abbas warned. The Palestinian Authority will therefore “develop a new strategy” to assert its choices “independently and follow a Palestinian project rather than an American vision,” he continued.