Mahmoud Abbas
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The Yesha Council on Wednesday night called on the Israeli government to announce new construction projects in Judea and Samaria as a response to Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s speech at the UN.

In the speech, Abbas declared that the PA is no longer committed to the 1994 Oslo Accords, while condemning Israeli "settlements" in Judea and Samaria, as well as the blockade of Gaza.

"The man who denied the Holocaust, that the PA under his leadership has brought wild incitement against Israel to unparalleled heights, and whose entire existence is possible thanks to the presence of Israel and the IDF in Judea and Samaria, again threatens us with a gun without bullets,” the Yesha Council said in a statement following the speech.

“Abbas brazenly threatens Israel which protects him from Hamas and demands to freeze the settlement enterprise, otherwise he would not fulfill his part in the Oslo Accords. Israel's government must announce in a loud and clear voice that it does not heed the threats and will continue building throughout the land of Israel without any freezing or hold any negotiations with and instigator and inciter, until he fundamentally changes his tune,” it added.

“Construction and development is our Zionist obligation to the people of Israel, this is that the governments of Israel have done since its inception.”

Earlier on Wednesday, sources close to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said he will use his own speech at the UN headquarters on Thursday to decisively attack Abbas's speech directly, exposing what the sources call the lies and incitement in Abbas's address.

Netanyahu's speech will also attack international hypocrisy in the treatment of Israel, according to the sources.