Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas met tonight (Wednesday) with Defense Minister Bnei Gantz, at the latter’s home in Rosh HaAyin. This is their second meeting since the government was formed, after the two met in Ramallah about four months ago. And a half, she participated in a forum that included the coordinator of operations in the territories, Major General Rassan Aliyan, Palestinian Authority Minister of Civil Affairs Hussein a-Sheikh and the head of the Palestinian security services, Majed Faraj.
During the meeting, the two discussed security and civilian issues, and it is estimated that the meeting took place against the background of the escalation in Judea and Samaria in recent weeks.
Ganz also informed Abu Mazen that he intends to continue to promote confidence-building measures in the economic and civilian spheres, as agreed in their previous meeting, and stressed the common interest in strengthening security coordination and maintaining security stability, and preventing terrorism and violence.
On the Palestinian side, al-Sheikh said that at the meeting the parties discussed the importance of creating a political horizon that would lead to a political solution according to international decisions. The Palestinian minister also noted that Defense Minister Ganz and Abu Mazen discussed tensions on the ground because of what the Palestinian minister defined as “settler actions.” According to him, the meeting also dealt with security, economic and humanitarian issues.
The previous meeting was held with the approval of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, and was the Palestinian Authority’s first meeting with a senior Israeli minister in many years. It is also the first time since the first decade of the 2000s that Abu Mazen has entered Israeli territory.
Hamas: “The meeting – obscene and weakens the national spirit”
The Likud attacked the meeting and said: “Bennett’s Israeli-Palestinian government returns Abu Mazen and the Palestinians to the agenda. Dangerous concessions to Israel’s security are only a matter of time. The Bennett-Saar-Lapid government is dangerous for Israel.”
“Religious Zionism” joined in the criticism, saying: “Ten years that the right has managed to make Abu Mazen irrelevant and a non-grata persona in the world and remove from the agenda the discourse of dividing the country and establishing a terrorist state in the heart of Israel. Bennett and his left-wing government return Oslo “To the table and Abu Mazen to the center of the stage. Bennett, bad for the Jews.”
Hamas also attacked the meeting, and a spokesman for the terrorist organization said: “The PA chief Abu Mazen’s meeting with Zionist War Minister Bnei Gantz is an obscene thing and deviates from the national spirit among our Palestinian people. The Palestinian leadership and constitutes a stabbing in the intifada in Judea and Samaria. “The behavior of the PA leadership deepens the Palestinian political split and encourages elements in the region who are interested in normalization with the occupation, and weakens the Palestinian position that rejects normalization.”
Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz, on the other hand, expressed his support for the meeting, saying: “I welcome the meeting between Defense Minister Bnei Gantz and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Strengthening ties and striving for a political solution are in the best interests of both peoples.”
Protest of the Red Line in response to Defense Minister Bnei Gantz’s meeting with Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas in Israel: , In the morning pays to families of terrorists and at night is hosted by the Minister of Defense. Our mission is one – to replace this government as soon as possible. “
The right-wing movement “Red Line” protested: “The Bennett-Lapid-Ganz government has lost it once and for all. Where else will we lead the shame and disgrace? “We are hosted by the Minister of Defense. Our mission is one – to replace this government as soon as possible.”
Matan Peleg, chairman of the If You Will movement: “The defense minister must explain to the public what the purpose of his meetings with the Holocaust denier, the corrupt man and the thief Abu Mazen really is. Not only did the defense minister indirectly stop offsetting the terrorists’ salaries, he avoided demolishing terrorist homes and allowing wild Palestinian construction in Area C while destroying Jewish settlements, he now hosts the snakehead that turned the murder of Jews into a Palestinian exit with the salaries he distributes to terrorists. What humility. “
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