Daily Inspiration Quote by Mahmoud Abbas

Abbas is trying to do two things at once: signal respectability to the international system while keeping a trapdoor open for domestic legitimacy. The first half is calibrated for Western ears trained to treat “renunciation of violence” as the entry fee to diplomacy. It’s bureaucratic on purpose, a sentence built like a filing cabinet: adhere, renouncement, rejection, condemning. The repetition isn’t eloquence; it’s insurance, a way of over-documenting intent in a world where Palestinian statements are routinely treated as suspect.

Then comes the hinge: “especially State terrorism.” That phrase is the political tell. It reframes the moral landscape from one in which Palestinians must prove nonviolence to one in which Israeli force is cast as the primary terror. Abbas isn’t just condemning terror; he’s contesting who gets to define it. The subtext is: we accept the language of counterterrorism, but we refuse to let it be a one-way accusation.

The final clause - “adhere to all agreements… between the PLO and Israel” - is the credential Abbas keeps flashing: the PLO as the “responsible” address for peace, distinct from factions that reject Oslo. It’s also a quiet rebuke to Israel’s own evasions: if Palestinians are being asked to recommit, the implication is that commitments have been violated or hollowed out on the other side.

Context matters: Abbas’s political brand is negotiation over armed struggle, a stance that buys him diplomatic access while exposing him to charges of impotence at home. The sentence reads like a bid to keep both audiences listening, even if neither is fully convinced.