Abbas: We Were “Very, Very Close” to a Peace Agreement in 2008
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said in a TV interview with Israeli Channel 2, ‘it was our mistake, it was an Arab mistake as a whole, but do they (the Israelis) punish us for this mistake for 64 years?’ Abbas also contended that he and former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert were “very, very close” to…