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Vivian Bercovici: Carney's Mideast policy is completely detached from reality
The PM's call with Abbas, in which he derided Israel and lauded the PA's non-existent reforms, is but his latest blunder
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On May 7, Prime Minister Mark Carney picked up the phone and called Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
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As Carney suggested in an X post, accompanied by a photo of him looking at a telephone sitting on a desk, he expressed all manner of criticism of Israel and its conduct, while positively gushing over various unspecified measures taken by the Palestinian Authority, as reflected in an official readout of the call.
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Abbas is in the 21st year of a four-year term as president. He has had more than ample opportunity to implement all manner of reforms.
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By any measure, the Palestinian Authority (PA) is repressive, particularly when it comes to gender and LGBT rights, issues that have long formed the cornerstone of Liberal foreign policy.
In the readout, Carney lauds measures that “strengthen accountability, governance and democratic institutions.” Exactly what he is referring to is very unclear. Abbas has not........