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Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah on June 27, 2018. Photo: Alaa Badarneh/A.P.

Palestinian official: Abbas needs to ‘rethink’ path in face of US measures

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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...
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas and Jordan's King Abdullah II review the honor guard in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Aug. 7, 2017. Photo by Flash90.

Is a PLO confederation with Jordan a viable solution to the Mideast conflict?

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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...
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Jordan's King Abdullah II review the honor guard in the West Bank city of Ramallah, August 7, 2017. Photo by Flash90

Welcome to the United Arab Kingdom?

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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...
US President's envoy to the Middle East Jason Greenblatt meets with Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah on May 25, 2017. Photo by FLASH90

Special envoy Greenblatt: ‘Palestinian leadership is not talking to us—much to their detriment’

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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...
Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas speaks to leaders of the now-collapsed Palestinian unity government between his Fatah Party and Hamas in Ramallah on June 2, 2014. Credit: Issam RImawi/Flash90.

Abbas urges ‘review’ of all past agreements with ‎Israel

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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 leader Ismail Haniyeh speaks during a meeting in Khan Yunis in southern Gaza on Jan. 7, 2016. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

Hamas-Israel truce would be like a ‘painkiller, not an anti-biotic,’ say observers

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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...
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas. Credit: JCPA.

PA leader Abbas declares: ‘We’ll never stop paying martyrs and prisoners’

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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...
U.S. President Donald Trump and Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas in Bethlehem on May 23, 2017. Credit: Shealah Craighead/White House.

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...
Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, meets with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin at the President's residence in Jerusalem, on June 26, 2018. Credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90.

Rivlin to Prince William: Bring a ‘message of peace’ to Abbas, to ‘end the...

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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...