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Abbas ups rhetoric, calls Israel 'Zionist enemy'
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| News Date | Tuesday, January 4, 2005 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip - Presidential candidate Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday called Israel the “Zionist enemy,” a marked escalation in his campaign rhetoric.
Abbas spoke to thousands of supporters after seven Palestinians were killed by an Israeli tank shell earlier in the day in the northern town of Beit Lahiya.
“We came to you today, while we are praying for the souls of the martyrs who were killed today by the shells of the Zionist enemy in Beit Lahiya,” Abbas said during a campaign stop in the town of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.
Abbas, the front-runner in Sunday’s election for Palestinian Authority president, is considered a moderate and has the tacit support of Israel and the United States. Abbas has criticized the armed Palestinian uprising and called for an end to violence.
However, in recent days Abbas has been campaigning in Palestinian areas that have been the hardest hit by four years of fighting, and has courted militants. |
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