Source: http://www.debka.com/article/8754/
Chinese president Hu Jintao was taken by surprise by the Chairman of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas’s plea to support tough sanctions against Iran’s nuclear program when they met in Shanghai on May 1, DEBKAfile’s Middle East sources reveal. He was even more shocked by the argument that a Middle East war, a realistic peril in the absence of sanctions, would cost the lives of many Palestinians who would find themselves caught between the belligerents. Hu received Abbas after the gala opening of Shanghai World Expo. According to Chinese sources, Abbas said that for once, most Arab nations – and the Palestinians, most of all – are ranged on the same side as Israel and the West in their profound anxiety about Iran’s nuclear program and the threat it poses of regional violence.
