Tag: Mahmoud Abbas
Holocaust remembrance, Palestinian irrelevance
As the nearly 50 heads of state from around the globe began preparing for their arrival in Israel this week to attend the Fifth World Holocaust Forum—on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the...
Elections remain elusive for Palestinians, as Abbas searches for pretexts to postpone them
In an address to the U.N. General Assembly last September, Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas pledged to a sympathetic gathering of world leaders that he would hold parliamentary elections.
While the announcement garnered international headlines at...
Elections remain elusive for Palestinians, as Abbas searches for pretexts to postpone them
In an address to the U.N. General Assembly last September, Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas pledged to a sympathetic gathering of world leaders that he would hold parliamentary elections.
While the announcement garnered international headlines at...
Abbas announces PA general elections in 2020
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas announced on Tuesday that Palestinians in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and eastern Jerusalem will go to the polls next year for the first time in 14 years.
Speaking at...
Relations with Israel are at a ‘dead end,’ Abbas tells UN representative
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas said on Saturday that relations between Israel and the P.A. have hit a “dead end,” and urged Europe to recognize a Palestinian state.
Speaking during a meeting in Ramallah with...
Fatah official says PA chief Abbas, soon to turn 85, won’t run for re-election
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas will not run for re-election, senior Fatah official Jibril Rajoub told Palestine TV on Monday.
Rajoub’s announcement contradicted Hussein al-Sheikh, who recently said that Abbas is Fatah’s only candidate in the next...
Warren, Palestinian Jew-hatred and the destruction of the West’s moral compass
The Democratic presidential hopeful, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, has suggested that she would consider cutting military aid to Israel to force it to halt construction of settlements in the disputed territories.
“It is the official...
Journalist calls for a revival of Abbas’s ‘Arab Keren Hayesod’ concept
In a two-part article in the Palestinian Authority daily Al-Hayat al-Jadida last month, journalist Muwaffaq Matar called for the adoption of an idea presented by P.A. leader Mahmoud Abbas in a 1982 booklet titled “We Need...
Sidelined by international community, Palestinians accept tax money withheld by Israel
Buckling under severe financial strain and unable to maintain its own threat to reject tax transfers from Israel, the Palestinian Authority this week accepted NIS 1.5 billion (nearly $430 million) in a move it...
Abbas announces date to be set for first Palestinian election since 2006
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas announced on Thursday that he will schedule a date for elections in Judea and Samaria, eastern Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip.
“From the outset, we have believed in democracy as...