


Ambulances have been prevented from going in to rescue the wounded. The Israeli army is using hundreds of tanks, armoured vehicles, drones, helicopters and bulldozers and thousands of troops to pulverise Jenin refugee camp. What is going on in Jenin at present is a real war. Running away to the UN Security Council to implore it to intervene to protect the Palestinian people is a shameful dereliction of duty. That could atone for all his sins and failed bets on a poisoned peace with an occupier mired in racism. With his health failing, age advancing, and his PA all but bankrupt, this is his golden opportunity to make good on that undertaking if he is sincere about it. Abbas has declared many times that he does not want to die a traitor. Israel’s latest West Bank bloodbath is a major test for both Abbas and Hamasīy Abdel Bari Atwan If ‘president’ Mahmoud Abbas cannot protect his people and halt the ongoing Israeli massacre in Jenin, he should announce the dissolution of his Palestinian Authority (PA) and order his 60,000-strong security forces to join the resistance brigades in the occupied West Bank in fighting the Israeli onslaught.
