{"id":7138,"date":"2018-02-11T21:01:52","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T04:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/?p=7138"},"modified":"2018-02-11T21:11:47","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T04:11:47","slug":"palestinian-authority-seeks-russia-backing-over-jerusalem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/palestinian-authority-seeks-russia-backing-over-jerusalem\/","title":{"rendered":"Palestinian Authority’s Abbas seeks Russia’s Putin backing over Jerusalem"},"content":{"rendered":"
YURI KOCHETKOV (POOL\/AFP\/File)<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n Abbas has rejected any mediation by Washington in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict after Jerusalem recognition<\/b><\/p>\n Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas visits Russia on Monday in a bid to secure Russian President Vladimir Putin’s support following Washington’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.<\/p>\n The Palestinian leader was set to visit Moscow two weeks after a visit by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.<\/p>\n Palestinians see the US decision, which broke with years of international diplomacy, as a denial of their claim to East Jerusalem as the capital of an eventual Palestinian state.<\/p>\n Israel took control of East Jerusalem in the 1967 Six-Day War, annexed it and later declared it the indivisible capital of Israel.<\/p>\n The US Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, has accused Abbas of lacking the courage needed to forge a peace deal with Israel.<\/p>\n Abbas in turn has rejected any mediation by Washington in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and has promised his people to work towards full recognition of a Palestinian state by the United Nations.<\/p>\n Alexander Shumilin, a Middle East scholar at the Institute for US and Canadian Studies, called Abbas’s visit “an attempt to cosy up to Russia, a consistent ally, and to stop Netanyahu leading Moscow astray during an improvement in Russia-Israeli ties.”<\/p>\n Netanyahu visited Russia on January 29 and along with Putin attended a memorial ceremony at the Jewish museum in Moscow for the victims of Nazi camps. He took the opportunity to accuse Iran of wanting to “destroy” the Jewish state.<\/p>\n In turn, the Russian president likened antisemitism to “Russophobia” and said Russia and Israel were “cooperating closely”, particularly against “attempts to falsify history.”<\/p>\n i24news<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas, pictured here with Vladimir Putin in May 2017, is seeking the Russian president’s support following Washington’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital YURI KOCHETKOV (POOL\/AFP\/File) Abbas has rejected any mediation by Washington in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict after Jerusalem recognition Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas visits Russia on Monday in a bid to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[313],"yoast_head":"\n