Israel Matzav: We don't need to hear from Abu Mazen either

We don't need to hear from Abu Mazen either

In Friday's JPost, editor David Horovitz argues that it's not Barack Obama from whom Israel needs to hear, it's Mahmoud Abbas Abu Mazen Bluff. And after this past week's Fatah conference in Bethlehem, Horovitz - and most Israelis - don't expect that to happen.

AN OBAMA visit would be encouraging, welcome and almost certainly constructive. Israel would certainly be pleased to hear directly from the president. But the voice we need to hear is that of Abbas - an Abbas speaking to his people and to ours in terms he did not employ at Fatah's Bethlehem gathering. An Abbas countering the duplicitous Arafat's assertion to the Palestinian public that the Jews have no rights and no legitimacy here. An Abbas explaining to his people and to ours that we are fated to live together and that he will meet us on the road to a better future.

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Israel Matzav: We don't need to hear from Abu Mazen either