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2008-02-20 … new government leaders to seek good relations with Washington. MIDDLE EAST: Palestine Eyes Kosovo A senior aide to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas says Palestine may unilaterally declare itself independent (BBC), as Kosovo did, if negotiations with Israel fail. The comments followed meetings …
2007-06-27 … who hold him responsible for the Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip. His remarks came amid growing pressure on Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas to negotiate with Hamas a solution to the current crisis. Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia have advised Abbas to resume talks with Hamas leaders over …
2009-07-05 … released, and this is a real threat on Hamas and its popularity. This is the reason it will prefer to keep the prisoners in jail. Hamas knows that Mahmoud Abbas will only gain from such huge protest. 6. The moment such a swap is completed, Hamas will lose its media glory. Look how Hizbullah disappeared. …
2009-07-03 … her country's special obligation to Israel because of the Holocaust, in which six million Jews were deliberately murdered. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has said U.S.-backed peace talks with Israel cannot resume until all settlement activity has ceased on captured land the Palestinians want for a …
2009-07-03 … Bank without approval of the Obama administration and the Palestinians, Nimer Hamad, senior political adviser to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas told WND. In spite of recent reports Israel will build 50 new homes in a northern West Bank Jewish community, Hamad said U.S. guarantees make him …
2009-07-02 … world fails to deliver," Wexler said, "you can rightly say that all bets are off." Wexler dismissed concerns that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was waiting for Obama to "deliver" Israel while the PA made no conciliatory steps, saying that if he did believe that, he was disabused of the …
2007-08-11 … But he believes it is Israel which is about to make a “brutal aggression” on Gaza to overthrow Hamas, which was recently described by President Abbas as a terrorist organisation with links to Al Qaeda.The humanitarian problem is clearly of deep concern. He, as does the above writer, points to the …
2009-06-08 … with working towards reconciliation,'' said the mayor. Alemanno said he would also discuss the idea with Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas later on Tuesday. The mayor said he hoped to launch the council on April 21, 2010, the birthday of Rome's mythical founding, in an event attended by …
2009-07-04 … Organization (PLO)’s department of negotiations affairs, Saeb Erakat, condemned Netanyahu’s speech as a “non-starter.” Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas urged the international community to isolate him and his government. His Egyptian counterpart, Hosni Mubarak, a close ally of Abbas and the U.S. and …
2007-09-25 … Strip, a step that could deepen economic hardship in the impoverished territory controlled by Hamas Islamists. Israeli currency is used by Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s government in the West Bank to pay salaries to tens of thousands of its employees in the Gaza Strip, home to 1.5 million people. A Palestinian …
2007-09-25 … territories, did Sadat make his decision. Where is the Israeli leader today who is ready to promise Assad the return of all the Golan, to promise Mahmoud Abbas a withdrawal to the Green Line? HOW DID Begin decide to give Egypt “parts of our fatherland”? Very simple: for him, they were not “parts of our …
2009-05-04 Ehud Olmert has been telling anyone who will still listen that he and Mahmoud Abbas were "very close" to a settlement this past fall; that he presented the PA president a deal and map--in his words, a more generous offer than any …
2007-07-02 … European Union and Russia) hoping to mediate an eventual 2-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict scenario. With Israel and Fatah president Mahmoud Abbas approving of the choice of Blair, Bush was able to overcome Russian resistance to get Blair the job. However, reaction in the Middle East to Blair’s …
2009-01-25 … represented by Hamas who took over complete control of Gaza after a failed coup by Fatah traitors, arranged and paid for by the US and Israel. Mahmoud Abbas does not represent the majority of the Palestinians who voted for Hamas in 2006 because they were fed up with the corrupt and brutal “Palestinian …
2009-06-16 … lot of irrelevant, propagandist fluff about the inability of Arabs to recognize the “Jewish presence” in the Middle East. As Netanyahu noted, “even” Mahmoud Abbas and the senior Fatah leadership do not consider recognizing Israel as a Jewish state as on the “agenda”. So it is worth thinking about why this is …
2008-03-07 … , nine years ago, the similarities are eerie: this, indeed, was Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold in Jerusalem . I applaud Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for quickly condemning the massacre, and I know that many, many Muslims, including some whom I count my …
2009-06-05 … an addition to her house to accommodate new grandchildren -- when Gaza is run by Hamas terrorists dedicated to permanent war with Israel and when Mahmoud Abbas, having turned down every one of Ehud Olmert's peace offers, brazenly declares that he is in a waiting mode -- waiting for Hamas to become moderate …
2007-04-04 … Chancellor Angela Merkel of “offending the Palestinians’ feelings” during her visit earlier this week to Ramallah, where she met with PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. …”She did everything to provoke the Palestinians during her visit,” said one official. “She showed no understanding for the plight of our people. …
2009-05-27 Mahmoud Abbas should move back to his real home in the West Bank of Paris. The so called Third State is a total fiasco. It has gone bye bye. The only Palestinian …
2009-07-03 … not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements” and that it’s “time for these settlements to stop,” it’s no wonder Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, who turned down a generous Israeli offer for Palestinian statehood last year, is in no rush to meet with Israel’s new government. He is content to …
2009-07-03 … not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements” and that it’s “time for these settlements to stop,” it’s no wonder Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, who turned down a generous Israeli offer for Palestinian statehood last year, is in no rush to meet with Israel’s new government. He is content to …
2009-07-03 … not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements” and that it’s “time for these settlements to stop,” it’s no wonder Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, who turned down a generous Israeli offer for Palestinian statehood last year, is in no rush to meet with Israel’s new government. He is content to …
2007-06-27 … Tuesday morning. Among the fugitives are also Al Aksa Brigades operatives, the official said, adding that if they would be allowed to openly join Mahmoud Abbas's forces instead of operating clandestinely (for fear of being arrested by Israel), they would constitute Fatah's "best chance" against Hamas.
2007-06-27 … were committed in the Gaza Strip by the Israeli occupation must be strongly condemned," read a statement released by Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's office Wednesday. The statement continued: "This bloody escalation, which was initiated by the Israeli government, is a distinct violation of the …
2009-04-24 … it is to play the role of yes man to the president and gain nothing in return. Ehud Olmert emerged from his many talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas with the impression that, because of the Palestinians' positions on the so-called core issues, there is no chance for a final-status accord with …
2008-05-19 … Authority officials - who accused the American leader of being one-sided in peace negotiations between Palestinians and Israelis - PA President Mahmoud Abbas has come to the conclusion that peace talks have failed, the London-based newspaper Al-Quds al-Arabi reported on Monday. Citing PA sources, the …
2006-04-24 … a joke? Much of the news these days ends in such harsh quasi-punch lines. Fatah terrorists demand an apology of Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas for his "offense" — condemning this week's Palestinian suicide bombing. Nuke-seeking Iran has an appointment with the U.N. Disarmament Conference — …
2009-06-15 … Benjamin Netanyahu, in a major policy speech, accepted the creation of a Palestinian state but only if it was demilitarised. Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas's spokesman said his comments challenged Palestinian, Arab and US positions. But the US said Mr Netanyahu's stance was an "important step forward". …
2009-05-30 … week as President Barack Obama called for an Israeli settlement freeze and spoke about the need to move quickly toward statehood alongside President Mahmoud Abbas at the White House. But despite the clear signal of a shift, there is caution in the West Bank and Gaza as Palestinians judge whether the …
2009-05-28 … be a rebuff to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who said all such activity should cease. Her comments came hours before Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was due to meet US President Barack Obama. Mrs Clinton said on Wednesday there must be no exceptions to President Obama's demands for Israel's …
2008-08-20 … and constructive involvement in the protracted Middle East peace process. In a brief visit to the West Bank, Obama assured Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas that he would be "a constructive partner in the peace process" and "would not waste a minute if elected." He emphasized that what Israelis and …
2009-05-30 Curt Here... The article posted below details how Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas plans to deal with the problem that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has become to the worlds desire for a two state solution in Israel. …
2009-05-19 … recognize Israel, renounce violence and accept existing interim peace accords, took control of the Gaza Strip in 2007, leaving Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas governing essentially only in the West Bank. NETANYAHU DISAPPOINTS PALESTINIANS Nabil Abu Rdainah, senior aide to Abbas, lauded Obama's commitment …
2009-05-15 … he understood frustrations that their "legitimate aspirations" for a Palestinian state were unfulfilled. Standing beside him, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas called on Israel to embrace peace. Earlier, the pontiff said he prayed for a lifting of Israel's embargo on Gaza. The BBC's Tim Franks said that the …
2009-04-22 … have been invited for talks in Washington in a new push for Middle East peace. PM Benjamin Netanyahu, President Hosni Mubarak and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas have been asked to the White House for talks likely by early June. The peace process has been beset by conflict and adversity which President Barack …
2009-04-17 … city of Ramallah, said that in recent days Palestinian officials held preliminary meetings leading to an in-person confab today between PA President Mahmoud Abbas and George Mitchell, Obama's envoy to the Mideast. The PA negotiator said the American team preparing for Mitchell's meeting with Abbas conveyed to …
2008-12-11 … "Reports Grow of Palestinian Torture" By Adam Entous and Alastair MacDonald Reuters dispatch in The Globe and Mail, 4 December 2008 "Forces loyal to Mahmoud Abbas, the Western-backed Palestinian president, are rounding up suspected Islamist activists and allegations of torture and abuse of legal procedure are …
2009-07-08 … to make a demand of the Palestinians in exchange for abrogating a previous agreement. A suggestion would be an end to incitement on Palestinian TV. Mahmoud Abbas may control no segment of Palestinian society, but he does control his own media. So why on Palestinian TV recently were college members of his …
2009-07-07 … Israel which Israel's efforts to protect its civilians from these rocket attacks would reliably trigger. Recently, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas told The Washington Post that the Palestinians had once again rejected a two-state solution. Former Prime Minister Olmert, Abbas told the Post, had …
2009-07-05 … deeply explore its reasons; only lately have some disturbing reports surfaced. The Washington Post on May 25 reported that according to PLO Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), prime minister Olmert accepted the principle of the "right of return" for Arab refugees and offered to resettle thousands in Israel. …
2009-06-04 … Under New Beginnings…It Shows There Is A New And Different American Policy Toward The Palestinian Issue.” The AP reported, “Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, a Hamas rival, welcomed Obama's words. ‘The part of Obama's speech regarding the Palestinian issue is an important step under new beginnings,’ his …
2009-07-04 … but called the meeting off in an apparent sign of growing friction over Obama's call for a halt to settlement construction.Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has said peace talks cannot resume until settlement construction in Palestinian territories comes to a complete halt. Syria mends US, Arab ties as …
2009-06-26 … rapprochement between rival Palestinian factions.A July 7 deadline set by Egypt for Islamist Hamas and the Fatah faction of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to ease a schism that has divided Gaza from the West Bank, as well as this week's third anniversary of Hamas's capture of Israeli soldier Gilad …
2009-06-18 … peacemaking efforts must include Hamas, which took control of the Gaza Strip in 2007, expelling forces loyal to Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, whose government now effectively rules only the West Bank.Though as president Carter brokered the 1979 peace treaty between Israel and Egypt, the …
2009-06-12 … an overriding conflict in the region.During this trip, Mitchell met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. He made stops in Jordan and Egypt, which both have diplomatic relations with Israel.He met on Friday with officials in Lebanon, less than a week …
2009-06-05 … that can translate his wishes and views into actions,said Barhoum, whose group the U.S. considers a terrorist organization.But Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, a moderate who rivals Hamas for leadership of the Palestinians, welcomed Obama's words. The part of Obama's speech regarding the Palestinian issue …
2009-05-30 … 22 of its activists Sat May 30, 8:54 am ET RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) – Hamas Islamists said on Saturday Fatah forces of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas arrested 22 of their activists in the West Bank. A Palestinian security official in the city of Ramallah said police rounded up several men across …
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