Palestinian Authority prime minister Mohamed Shayyeh spoke to the EU Committee of Foreign Affairs yesterday and took questions. He made a lot of ludicrous claims, like how “Palestine” is committed to democracy, how Israel has been stopping them from having elections, how not a penny of foreign aid goes to terrorist organizations.
He claimed at the very end that Palestinians do not have access to the Dead Sea. Another complete lie.
He claimed that Palestinians do not have access to the Mediterranean Sea. What about everyone in Gaza? What about the thousands that visit during Ramadan every year? Or the many that came last August?
Here is where he insists that the EU funds are not misused and that Palestinians cannot swim in the Dead Sea (he mentioned the Mediterranean earlier.)
Palestine Times quotes him in an especially nonsensical claim:
The prime minister in Ramallah, Muhammad Shtayyeh, expressed the Palestinian side’s readiness for a dialogue with “Israel” as soon as possible, but pointed out that the “Israeli side’s actions do not reflect an intention for dialogue.”“The Israeli president always talks about that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and others, which suggests to us that it has no intention of ever reaching an agreement with us,” Shtayyeh said during a meeting of the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee.
Apparently, Israel saying that Jerusalem is its capital shows that it is not serious about peace talks, but the Palestinians insisting that Jerusalem is their capital shows that they are serious about peace talks.
Perhaps someone should come up with a list of rules that are different for Palestinians and Israelis. It would be a long list.
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