This comes one day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed the Iran nuclear deal in an address to the U.N. General Assembly. Netanyahu compared Iran to a dog, saying, “Unleashed and unmuzzled, Iran will go on the prowl, devouring more and more prey.” He also said he was prepared to resume peace talks with the Palestinians “without any preconditions whatsoever” — an assertion Hanan Ashrawi of the Palestinian Liberation Organization immediately contested.

Hanan Ashrawi: “So, in a sense, all his statements about peace and seeking peace have nothing to do with reality, are actually the opposite of what has been doing. He is the one who walked out of the peace talks. Israel is the country that reneged on all its commitments and signed agreements. Israel is refusing to abide by international law. And then it turns around, and it blames the Palestinians, who are its victims. Israel is a strong military power, holding a whole nation captive and at the same time blaming its victim for its own belligerence and its own destructive policies.”