Israeli FM Sa'ar criticizes Abbas' UN address: 'Israel will not be decieved again'
"Mahmoud Abbas, in his Zoom speech to the UN Assembly, says he's willing to take back the Gaza Strip, which he so easily lost to Hamas in 2007," Sa'ar wrote. "How generous of him."
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar criticized Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's address to the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday in a post to X/Twitter.
"Mahmoud Abbas, in his Zoom speech to the UN Assembly, says he's willing to take back the Gaza Strip, which he so easily lost to Hamas in 2007," Sa'ar wrote. "How generous of him."
"He also keeps encouraging terror by paying salaries to terrorists and to their families. To the West, he offers pretty words. But his people should draw conclusions from the key he wears on his suit lapel," the post went on.
"Israel will not be deceived again."
'Key' pin and the destruction of Israel
Israel's Foreign Ministry echoed the sentiment in its own response to an earlier speech Abbas made at the UNGA this week. "In his speech addressing the UN General Assembly, he wore a 'key' pin – an unmistakable symbol of his goal of erasing Israel."
"Abbas’s 'key' is the old PLO plan: two states for one Palestinian people and the destruction of the Jewish State," the ministry concluded. "This will not happen."