Oct 17
Via Al-Manar TV in Lebanon, the U.S.-backed Palestinian leadership faces a popular backlash.
In the Palestinian press, Abbas’s intervention to persuade the UN to put off its response has been greeted with fury, even in papers normally loyal to the president’s Fatah faction.
“This was a humiliating capitulation in the face of US and Israeli pressure”, Hani al-Masri fumed in the pro-Fatah daily al-Ayyam.”
