“Amazing those willing to believe the word of a Palestinian politician - 2 years after the event.”
While the word Palestinian is enough for some folk to assume that the person being discussed is an untrustworthy rogue, and a violently anti-Western trouble maker, we are talking about Mahmoud Abbas. He is widely regarded as having been a moderating influence in the PLO and in the Palestinian Authority, with a genuine fondness towards the West and a sincere commitment towards achieving peace. He is recognised as a major architect of the 1993 Oslo peace accords, who travelled with Arafat to the White House to sign the accords. He has met Bush on a number of occasions and is supposed to have a reasonable relationship with the Pres. We're not talking about Arafat, for goodness sake!
And Bush's words have an awful ring of truth…. so unless you believe that all Arabs are liars........