Mahmoud Abbas is in his final act as betrayer of the Palestinian cause

Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas has been trying to stay relevant as events in Gaza, the West Bank and across the region have been moving at a much faster pace than the octogenarian politician is able to cope with.

This week, amid an Israeli genocide that has been unceasingly raging in Gaza for 14 months, Abbas's security forces brazenly killed several prominent resistance fighters in Jenin in an attempt to appease the Israelis and their American benefactors.

When then-US President Donald Trump announced in January 2020 the so-called "deal of the century", a proposal that was wholly aligned with Israel on all issues of contention, Abbas said: "I want to say to the duo - Trump and [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu - that Jerusalem is not for sale, and all of our rights are not for sale or bargaining. Your deal, the conspiracy, will not happen...we say a thousand times no, no, no to the deal of the century."

Yet, when Trump was re-elected on 5 November, Abbas called to congratulate him and vowed to work with him on a political settlement that he himself rejected out of hand five years earlier.

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