Abbas plays tough-guy vs Trump. How's that working out?

 
Palestinian Authority (PA) leader Mahmoud Abbas has confronted US President Donald Trump multiple times over the last 18 months. He's been playing tough-guy with Trump. How's that going for him?

Well, it depends upon your point of view. For example, when Trump offered recently to raise a billion dollars to help Gaza lift itself out of a growing humanitarian crisis it faces, Abbas rejected the offer outright (here). No one in the PA objected (here).

The US has wanted Abbas to stop funding terrorists in Israeli jails (here). Abbas refuses to stop those payments (here). No one in the PA objects to that, either.

When Trump officials announced the US would cut some $200 million dollars from a Palestinian-supporting UN organization called, UNRWA, the PLO responded with a tough-guy reaction: the PLO (note: Abbas is the chief of the PLO Executive Committee) declared, 'we will not be intimidated' (here).

Neither Abbas, the Palestinian Authority (PA), Fatah or the PLO commented that, maybe, the PA and Trump could discuss this issue. Their collective answer was, simply, you can't scare us!

As Trump and US officials announced they were trying (earlier in 2018) to create a new Middle East peace initiative, Abbas didn't say he saw a new peace offer as a ray of hope. He denounced this US effort as 'the slap of the century' (here).

Most recently, while the US was encouraging Israel, Egypt and Hamas to establish a workable ceasefire arrangement to reduce tensions between Hamas in Gaza and Israel, Abbas didn't claim he saw these efforts as a path to reducing tension--or, as a first step towards a wider peace initiative. He said, any ceasefire arrangement anyone was trying to build between Israel and Hamas would only happen 'over my dead body' (here).

It seems Abbas has decided to get tough with Trump. He pushes back at every step Trump takes in the Middle East. 

How's that working out? The Palestinians certainly don't object to this tactic. At least, no one in the PA has said 'peep' about it, other than to support Abbas.

Israelis, however, have a different point of view.

Here's that point of view from the Israeli news outlet, israelhayom. It's in the form of a cartoon representation. The name of the cartoonist is in the upper right corner. The cartoon appeared at israelhayom on August 26, 2018. 

So--how's Abbas' tough-guy approach working out? Here's the Israeli answer: