Mahmoud Abbas, Multi-Card Negationist

Mahmoud Abbas urges Hamas to give up power in Gaza and to hand over its weapons to the Palestinian Authority. President of the Palestinian Authority for more than twenty years (!), this man presented as moderate and placid believes that Hamas has offered Israel pretexts for committing his "crimes in the Gaza Strip." He is a little older than Pope Francis whom he has met several times. Like him, he leads a state that is not one, as he will have a…