The PLO co-leader told CNN yesterday that he plans to show Bush maps of the Jewish communities, outposts, and the planned partition wall.
Abu Mazen said openly earlier this week that he has no plans to disarm Hamas - in violation of his Road Map obligations. Despite this, he complained during the CNN interview that Israel has implemented the Road Map only partially. He said that he plans to call on Bush to pressure Israel to release terrorists, freeze all Jewish towns in Yesha, and stop building the anti-terrorist partition wall.
During the meeting, the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) will be holding a protest vigil at the "Ellipse," between the White House and the Washington Monument. On the schedule are two ceremonies: one will commemorate the Holocaust, the dimensions of which Abu Mazen has denied, and the other will memorialize the 11 Israeli athletes murdered at the 1972 Munich Olympics. The ZOA notes that Fatah co-founder Abu Mazen helped plan and execute that massacre, as well as many other terrorist acts.
Abbas, visiting Washington for the first time in his role as co-leader of the PA, met with House International Relations Committee members yesterday. Expressing support for Arafat and somewhat disassociating himself from the Road Map, Abu Mazen did not "greatly impress too many people in the audience." So said Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Florida) to a Jerusalem Post reporter.
Abu Mazen and Muhammed Dahlan also met yesterday with U.S. National Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice and with American-Jewish leaders.
Abu Mazen said openly earlier this week that he has no plans to disarm Hamas - in violation of his Road Map obligations. Despite this, he complained during the CNN interview that Israel has implemented the Road Map only partially. He said that he plans to call on Bush to pressure Israel to release terrorists, freeze all Jewish towns in Yesha, and stop building the anti-terrorist partition wall.
During the meeting, the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) will be holding a protest vigil at the "Ellipse," between the White House and the Washington Monument. On the schedule are two ceremonies: one will commemorate the Holocaust, the dimensions of which Abu Mazen has denied, and the other will memorialize the 11 Israeli athletes murdered at the 1972 Munich Olympics. The ZOA notes that Fatah co-founder Abu Mazen helped plan and execute that massacre, as well as many other terrorist acts.
Abbas, visiting Washington for the first time in his role as co-leader of the PA, met with House International Relations Committee members yesterday. Expressing support for Arafat and somewhat disassociating himself from the Road Map, Abu Mazen did not "greatly impress too many people in the audience." So said Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Florida) to a Jerusalem Post reporter.
Abu Mazen and Muhammed Dahlan also met yesterday with U.S. National Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice and with American-Jewish leaders.