Israel’s ambassador to Canada, Iddo Moed, slammed the Canadian government Saturday night for its recognition of a Palestinian state a year ago, after the conditions it had laid out for the Palestinian Authority never materialized.

The latest in a string of “broken promises” was last week’s announcement that the PA had decided to postpone elections again, the first that would have been held in 20 years. The flimsy excuse given was that Trump’s Gaza peace plan had not effected the changes in Gaza that the PA had hoped to see by now, though the connection between that and the ability to hold elections was not explained.

“One year ago Canada recognised Palestinian statehood in exchange for Mahmoud Abbas’s ‘commitments’ — a list of 30-years long broken promises,” Moed wrote on X.

“Now Abbas postponed elections to September 2027… Add that to the continuing Pay4Slay program for terrorists, and many other undelivered reforms,” he added.

“What more is needed to recognise and admit that Canada’s irreversible move was in vain?” he concluded.

As for the move being irreversible, Moed later conceded that pressure indeed should be applied to Canada to reverse the decision.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas had announced in February that direct elections for the Palestinian National Council would be held on Nov. 1 and would be open to all Arabs from Gaza, Judea and Samaria, as well as those who now live elsewhere around the world.

The 90-year-old is in the 21st year of the four-year term he was elected to in 2005, yet he has called this year, 2026, “the year of Palestinian democracy.” He has not called for presidential elections, however.

This would not be the first time Abbas has called for elections, but in the past they did not materialize. For this reason, skepticism that elections will finally take place after the latest delay runs high.