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NOVANEWS Abbas’s big bluff on war crimes bid against Israel   By Jonathan Cook in Nazareth Intense pressure from Israel and the US last week on members of the United Nations Security Council narrowly averted Washington’s embarrassment at being forced to veto a Palestinian resolution to end the occupation. The Palestinians’ failure to get the necessary votes saved the White House’s blushes but at a cost: the claim that the US can oversee a peace process promising as its outcome a Palestinian state is simply no longer credible. Looming is the post-peace process era. Its advent appears to have been marked by Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas’s decision in the immediate wake of the Security Council vote to join the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague. Israel furiously opposes...