Extry! Read all about it! Holocaust denier launches sham election campaign on Christmas day, calls for negotiations, vows no compromise! Extry! Abbas Echoes Arafat in Campaign Kickoff.

RAMALLAH, West Bank - Cloaking himself in Yasser Arafat’s legacy, interim Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas pledged Saturday in his first official campaign speech to fulfill Palestinian dreams of statehood.

Abbas, the front-runner in the upcoming presidential election on Jan. 9, called on Israel to end its occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem. He said he had chosen the path of peace and negotiations.

“Israel must pull out of all Palestinian lands occupied in 1967. We must end the occupation,” Abbas said to a cheering crowd of hundreds of supporters in the West Bank city of Ramallah. “We cannot compromise on Jerusalem.”

Israel captured the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem during the 1967 Mideast War. Israel and the Palestinians both claim Jerusalem as their capital.

“We are choosing the path of peace and negotiation,” Abbas said. “If there is no peace here, there will be no peace in the Middle East or the rest of the world.”

So Abu Mazen’s position boils down to … absolutely nothing new. He demands Israel return to the indefensible 1967 borders and give up the land that was occupied after all the surrounding Arab countries attacked. He demands Israel give up all claim to Jerusalem.

It’s non-negotiable, yet he still has the brass to say he’s “choosing negotiation.”

But wait! There’s more. He also demands that all imprisoned Palestinian terrorists be released, including multiple murderer Marwan Barghouti.

Abbas said peace with Israel was conditional on the release of all Palestinian prisoners, especially jailed uprising leader Marwan Barghouti.

How many billions of foreign aid would you pay? But wait! There’s more! Along with the release of thousands of Palestinian killers from Israeli prisons, he also demands that Israel’s security barrier be dismantled.

Listing his priorities, Abbas told supporters of the ruling Fatah party that he was determined to provide security to his people and continue the struggle against Israel’s partially completed West Bank barrier.

Now how many billions would you pay? But he’s still not done!

Abbas also pledged to resolve the problem of millions of Palestinian refugees and their descendants. Abbas, a refugee himself from what is today the northern Israeli city of Safed, called the refugee issue “very important and very dangerous.”

Now there’s a guy who really is dedicated to the path of peace and negotiations.

I must have missed the part where he proposes effective action to put an end to the terrorist tactics that have destroyed so many lives, and his own people’s society.