Abbas sells out Palestinians over UN Gaza report...

Critics accused Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday of letting down his people by bowing to U.S. pressure and postponing action on a U.N. report that criticised Israel's offensive in Gaza.

The Palestinian Authority agreed in Geneva on Friday to defer a vote in the United Nations Human Rights Council on a resolution that would have condemned Israel's failure to cooperate with a U.N. war crimes investigation led by South African jurist Richard Goldstone. It would also have forwarded his report to the Security Council.

Hamas, the Islamist group which runs the Gaza Strip, condemned Abbas, but the president and his Palestinian Authority also faced anger from commentators in their own backyard in the West Bank, and even criticism within Abbas's own Fatah party. More...

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