My Way News - Abbas' move reflects deep Palestinian despair
My Way News reports: "Moderate Palestinians are worried that Abbas, in saying he doesn't want another term in office, will only deepen frustrations and boost the militants who claim violence is the only option. [...] The Palestinian narrative stands in sharp contrast to the widely held Israeli one. Israelis feel they have gotten little back for their efforts: They signed the 1993 Oslo peace accords, but the Palestinians persisted with terror attacks; Israel offered a state in 2000 but Palestinians staged a new uprising, and then Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005 and the Palestinians fired rockets from it."

Comment: There really is no reason in the world to believe that a Palestinian state would be peaceful, that it's citizens would want to live in peace next to Israel. The real failure of leadership here is not from Obama, but from Abbas, who has a peace agenda but has been unable to persuade his people to share that vision. Most Palestinians didn't even vote for him, they voted for Hamas and for war.