Fatah member: US administration is the cobra’s head

Fatah central committee member Abbas Zaki threatened the US following the Palestinian Authority's (PA) failed UN bid demanding recognition and Israeli withdrawals.

"The whole world should understand that the US is an enemy, pushing Israeli extremists to carry on with their actions, depriving us of our rights, and supporting Israel in everything," Zaki told RT.

Zaki then compared the US administration with 'the cobra’s head and vowed retaliation if America doesn’t change its current stance.

Zaki also said the latest developments in the UNSC were not a failure for Palestinian Arab diplomacy.

“It’s just the persistent unwillingness of the US administration to give the Palestinian people its lawful right of self-determination. It’s a very dangerous precedent," he said.

"The US administration realizes very well that 138 states support Palestine as having UN observer status. The US knows that there are many decisions and resolutions of international organizations condemning the Israeli crimes and injustice towards the Palestinian people.”

“Regardless of all that, the current US administration still uses its right to veto,” he complained, despite that the US didn't use its veto to shoot down the resolution, which fell a vote short of the required nine votes.

"In such a way, the US wants to tell Palestine not to address the UN, neither today nor in the future."

Zaki described the US administration’s stance as “unprincipled and unacceptable,” with Washington “always making decisions in favor of Israel.”

“We can’t tolerate anymore the crimes committed against us during the whole ‘peace process’ led by the US,” he explained.

“Israel has gone too far, destroying our sacred places, taking our land, killing our citizens… Israel commits crimes and the US can’t stop this in any way.