ABBAS IS NOT A PEACE PARTNER, WARNS FORMER HIGH-RANKING DIPLOMAT

JANUARY 15, 2018 16:20 Palestinian President has a history of jettisoning the peace process, when he feels like it, says Gold.

Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas has disqualified himself as a serious peace partner, unless he pulls back and changes the tone and content of his approach, former Foreign Ministry director-general Dore Gold told The Jerusalem Post on Monday. Gold, who has advised Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on foreign policy for decades and remains close to him, reacted to a controversial speech by Abbas on Monday in which he painted Israel as colonialist, ruled out any peace process as long as US president Donald Trump is in power, and expressed hope that Trump's house would be destroyed.