Tag: Mahmoud Abbas
Palestinian official: Abbas needs to ‘rethink’ path in face of US measures
A series of recent U.S. steps against the Palestinian Authority have infuriated the Palestinian leadership, but the outrage directed at the U.S. administration has been amplified by growing criticism directed at P.A. leader Mahmoud...
Is a PLO confederation with Jordan a viable solution to the Mideast conflict?
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas recently told a group of Israeli activists that the Trump administration proposed a confederation between the Palestinians and Jordan. For years, the idea of Jordan serving as a state...
Welcome to the United Arab Kingdom?
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas recently told a group of Israeli activists that the Trump administration proposed a confederation between the Palestinians and Jordan. For years, the idea of Jordan serving as a state...
Special envoy Greenblatt: ‘Palestinian leadership is not talking to us—much to their detriment’
Tasked by U.S. President Donald Trump to help reach the “deal of the century,” Jason Greenblatt, who serves as one of Trump’s top Middle East envoys, has a herculean task before him: to help...
Abbas urges ‘review’ of all past agreements with Israel
Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas said on Tuesday that it’s time to “open for review” all Palestinian past agreements with Israel, including the 1993 Oslo Accords.
The Oslo Accords effectively created the Palestinian Authority and...
Hamas-Israel truce would be like a ‘painkiller, not an anti-biotic,’ say observers
Intensive efforts are underway to reach a long-term, comprehensive truce arrangement between Hamas in the Gaza Strip and Israel. Former members of the Israeli defense establishment, however, have expressed skepticism about the feasibility of...
PA leader Abbas declares: ‘We’ll never stop paying martyrs and prisoners’
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas vowed on Monday that he would not cut payments to families of terrorists despite an Israeli law punishing his government for doing so.
“We will never stop paying the families...
Report: Abbas rejected US appeal for peace summit
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas has rejected an invitation by senior White House adviser Jared Kushner to participate in a peace summit let by moderate Arab states, the London-based Arabic newspaper Al-Hayat reported this weekend.
Saudi...
Rivlin to Prince William: Bring a ‘message of peace’ to Abbas, to ‘end the...
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin met with the United Kingdom’s Prince William on Tuesday, asking the royal to bring a “message of peace” to Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas.
“I know that you’re going to meet President...
Palestinian Authority leader under pressure to ‘end Trump boycott’
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is reportedly facing substantial pressure to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump’s top Middle East advisers this week, despite the rift between Washington and Ramallah.
Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser...