Tag: Mahmoud Abbas
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...
Trump is ‘the copy of Hitler,’ says official PA daily op-ed
Following the U.S. veto of a U.N. resolution, which called for “international protection” for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip over Israel’s response to the violent March of Return riots, U.S. President Trump was described...
Battle for succession in PA moves into high gear
In the best tradition of dictatorial Arab regimes, obscurity has descended upon the state of health of Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas, who has been hospitalized in Ramallah.
The Palestinian people, whom Abbas officially represents...
PA leader Mahmoud Abbas admitted to hospital in Ramallah
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was hospitalized for the third time in a week on Sunday, but may be released as early as Tuesday, according to sources in Ramallah.
The 83-year-old leader was admitted to...
Situation in Chile getting colder for its small Jewish community
Israel has received a significant boost from its allies in Latin America in recent months, with both Guatemala and Paraguay moving their embassies to Jerusalem and with Honduras rumored to follow suit as well....
Abbas thanks Venezuela, encourages Latin American nations not to move embassies
In a meeting with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas urged Latin American countries not to move their countries’ Israeli embassies to Jerusalem.
“We hope that some countries across Latin America will...
US asks the UN Security Council to condemn Abbas’s ‘deeply disturbing’ remarks on Holocaust
The United States on Friday asked the U.N. Security Council to reject the “unacceptable” and “deeply disturbing” remarks by Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas concerning the Holocaust.
The U.S.-drafted statement would have the council express “serious...