Posted on 09/25/2011 7:22:37 AM PDT by EBH
Thousands of Palestinians cheering and waving flags gave President Mahmoud Abbas a hero's welcome in the West Bank Sunday, as he told them triumphantly a "Palestinian Spring" had been born following his historic speech to the U.N. last week.
Abbas' popularity has skyrocketed since he asked the U.N. on Friday to recognize Palestinian independence, defying appeals from Israel and the United States to return to peace talks. His request has pushed the region into uncharted waters, and left the international community scrambling over how to respond.
Thousands of people crowded Abbas' West Bank headquarters in the city of Ramallah to get a glimpse of the 76-year-old president upon his return from New York. Abbas was uncharacteristically animated, shaking his hands and waving to the audience.
Abbas compared his campaign to the Arab Spring, the mass demonstrations sweeping the Arab world in hopes of freedom, saying that an independent Palestinian state is inevitable.
"We have told the world that there is the Arab Spring, but the Palestinian Spring is here," he said. "A popular spring, a populist spring, a spring of peaceful struggle that will reach its goal."
He warned that the Palestinians face a "long path" ahead. "There are those who would put out obstacles ... but with your presence they will fall and we will reach our end."
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A true Palestinian Spring would begin in Jordan...but then again the MSM downplays muzzie on muzzie violence and prefers instead to build up Jew on muzzie violence.
Will ABBAS end up like Mubbarak of Egypt ?
Let the palestinians go on the rampage in ramalla and gaza.
let them go and kill each others like in lybia.
the west bank and gaza need a good spring cleaning...it is full of filth there.
Palestinian Spring, yeah right, sounds more like a Winter of Discontent.
Thousands of [ethnically undifferentiated Arab squatters] cheering and waving flags gave... Abbas a hero's welcome... popularity has skyrocketed since he asked the U.N. on Friday to recognize Palestinian independence, defying appeals from Israel and the United States to return to peace talks.
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