Through Secret Channels: The Road to Oslo - Senior PLO Leader Abu Mazevi's Revealing Story of the Negotiations with Israel
Open Democracy (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority, has threatened to walk out on the struggling peace process between Palestine and Israel. Abbas announced he would not be running for election in January only a few days before other Palestinian officials claimed they were meeting in order to consider disbanding the authority. Internationally this has caused much dismay, as it strikes a blow to...
Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
Israeli President Shimon Peres has urged Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to stay in power despite a stalemate in the Middle East peace process. “We both signed the Oslo accords and I turn to you as a colleague, don’t let go,” Peres said at a public rally held in a Tel Aviv square in commemoration of Israeli [...]
My Right Word (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Ethan Bronner reported this about Mahmoud Abbas' resignation threat:- Four top officials made the same point in separate interviews. Mr. Abbas, they say, feels at a total impasse in negotiations with the Israeli government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has declined to commit to a Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders including East Jerusalem . Mr. Netanyahu favors negotiations without...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
The Palestinian president is fed up, but his statement that he would not seek a second term was a warning, not a resignation The recent announcement by Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas that he would not seek a second term in office or run in elections has prompted considerable speculation, even confusion, around the world. His decisions contains much ambiguity while conveying different messages...
Developing your Web presence (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Tony Karon, in The Nation ‘Who lost China?” was the battle cry of a witch-hunt conducted in the US State Department following the 1949 victory of Mao Zedong’s communists. The department’s “ China hands”, critics charged, had been woefully ignorant of the dynamics at work on the ground in China after the Second World War, and undermined the US ally Chiang Kai-shek....
Memri Latest Blogs (Free subscription) | yesterday
Palestinian sources report tension between PA President Mahmoud 'Abbas and Arab League Secretary-General 'Amr Moussa, stemming from the latter's refusal to stop meeting with Hamas leaders and his refusal to blame Hamas for the failure ... November 8, 2009, 10:29 am
The Osterley Times (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
This is worrying: With PA President Mahmoud Abbas poised to resign, Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) legislators are reportedly set to discuss dissolving the Palestinian Authority entirely , ending the 1993 peace process and the limited self governance enjoyed by the PA in portions of the West Bank. The move would have enormous ramifications, but with Israel h aving repeatedly threatened to...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Arab League chief Amr Moussa on Monday urged Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to reconsider his decision not to run in the upcoming presidential election, statement said. According to the statement, Moussa called on Abbas to continue leading the Palestinian National Authority. Moussa praised the Palestinian President's decision not to continue negotiations with Israel unless it stopped building...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
A Palestinian newspaper reported Monday that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is considering quitting if elections are not held as he decreed in January 2010. The Ramallah-based al-Ayyam daily quoted undisclosed sources assaying if Abbas resigns, "he will be a caretaker president until new elections are held." Abbas said presidential and parliamentary elections must not be postponed, as...
Soccer Dad (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
The New York Times had a symposium on Mahmoud Abbas's resignation. Three of the participants, Rashid Khalidi, Fawaz Gerges, and Daoud Kuttab took the approach that Abbas had his authority undermined by the Americans and has no partner among Israelis so his moderate approach had run its course. An Israeli professor, Menachem Klein looked at things in much the same way. Ronen Bergman attributes it to...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Those close to Mahmoud Abbas said that his stated intention to resign was not a bluff and that other Palestinian Authority leaders would follow him.
Yourish.com (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
The New York Times had a symposium on Mahmoud Abbas’s resignation. Three of the participants, Rashid Khalidi, Fawaz Gerges, and Daoud Kuttab took the approach that Abbas had his authority undermined by the Americans and has no partner among Israelis so his moderate approach had run its course. An Israeli professor, Menachem Klein looked at [...]
A Blog For All (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Once again, we've got doom and gloom prognostications about the peace process, despite the fact that the Palestinians want nothing to do with peace with Israel, and would much rather have peace without Israel. Mahmoud Abbas is busy trying to get Israel and the US to grovel with concessions to get Abbas to stick around as PA President, despite the fact that Abbas has done nothing himself to
New York Times (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Those close to Mahmoud Abbas said Monday that he intended to resign and forecast that others would follow.
boxologies (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
Mahmoud Abbas has been a partnerless advocate of a negotiated settlement in the Middle East for years now, but having been left in the cold by Israel he began to look impossibly compromised. In losing Abbas, Israel will certainly be losing the best hope of being able to negotiate a secure and sustainable solution to the conflict, but that is lower on their agenda now than it has perhaps ever been....
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