Last week, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told a group of Palestinian Americans that he had reprimanded US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken for failing to pressure Israel for peace.

And The Times of Israel reported that “Abbas’s statements during a special meeting with representatives of the Palestinian community in the diaspora on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York included belittling a senior US diplomat,” noting that “she received an audio recording dated September 22.

Speaking in Arabic, Abbas said during the meeting that he told Blinken, “Boy, don’t do it, I know your story.” Gaza after former US President Dwight Eisenhower ordered former Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion to do so.

Abbas added: “I told Blinken when dealing with Israel: don’t say, my love, do this or don’t do that. Rather, you should use the red phone and the powers of the office of the president to force Israel to change hands. policy,” noting that “the United States does business in this way with 190 countries.” But not with Israel.

He told those present that he “used to believe American administrations that claimed Israel did not want peace.” However, he now understands that “it’s not that the Israelis don’t want peace, it’s that the Americans don’t want peace.”