Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas called Wednesday in Geneva for the creation of a "special regime" for the protection of his people, despite the fact that it is the Palestinian Arabs - not Israelis - carrying out a wave of terrorist attacks in Israel over the past month. Abbas called on the UN, "more urgently than any time before, to set up a special regime for international protection for the Palestinian people, immediately and urgently." "Israel acts as a state above the law, undeterred, unpunished and without accountability," he charged, echoing comments made by the Hamas politiburo earlier this week . "I have warned for years of the consequences of what has been happening in Jerusalem and its surroundings." Abbas also once again accused Israel of killing terrorists and demolishing their homes 'extrajudicially', as well as "using collective punishment." "The Security Council must shoulder its responsibilities and protect the Palestinian people. We can no longer bear the attacks by the settlers and the Israeli army. Protect us, we need you," he pleaded. Arab rioters have been turning the Temple Mount into a terror den in recent weeks, but yet it is Israel which has been blamed for the violence, even though it acts in self-defense to protect the compound from the rioters. The riots have snowballed into an unprecedented wave of stabbings, shootings, and other attacks against Jews and Israelis - with 778 incidents reported over the past four weeks alone. The PA - and Abbas himself - have been the direct cause of the terror wave, which has continued via an ongoing stream of Palestinian incitement in official media. AFP contributed to this report.
