Mahmoud Abbas is a puppet.
Film begins with DW Griffith and ends with Abbas Kiarostami.
There's no deep bench there, Mahmoud Abbas is, I think, the best leader of the Palestinians we could field.
President Abbas and myself, we are the ones who signed the Oslo agreement, so we really know each other, not just theoretically.
But nothing ever put 'Hoppy' in the shade. No one could fail to recognize in the little figure. . . the authentic gold of intellectual inspiration, the Fundator et Primus Abbas of biochemistry in England.