‘NY Times’: Abbas must step down

The New York Times has called for Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to step down, in the aftermath of his Monday night speech in Ramallah in which he charged that money lending was the reason Jews were killed in the Holocaust.

In an editorial on Thursday entitled: “Let Abbas’s Vile Words Be His Last as Palestinian Leader,” the paper charged that the Palestinian leader had fed “reprehensible antisemitic myths and conspiracy theories. Mr. Abbas’s vile speech was a new low. No doubt he feels embittered and besieged on all sides. But by succumbing to such dark, corrosive instincts he showed that it is time for him to leave office.”

on a mountainside, apparently to protect it from possible attack from Israel. As part of the nuclear agreement, most of the centrifuges were dismantled. According to the IAEA report, it was converted for civilian purposes.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu referred to the Fordow facility during his speech on Monday when he unveiled a massive cache of secret documents, obtained in an Israeli intelligence operation this year, showing that Iran had developed a secret nuclear weapons program.

In his speech, Netanyahu said excavations are continuing on the mountain-side compound. The prime minister also accused Iran of lying to the six powers that negotiated with it in 2015 to reach an agreement on its nuclear program.

The cache Netanyahu presented also revealed documents in which the Iranian leadership instructed those responsible for the nuclear program to develop five 10-kiloton warheads, which could be mounted on ballistic missiles. •