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Palestinian Pundit (Free subscription) | yesterday
"Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas wants Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to convince Iran to put an end to its support for the radical Palestinian movement Hamas . "Iran supports Hamas with money. Hamas' decisions are in the hands of Tehran," Abbas said Friday in an interview with the Brazilian daily Folha de Sao Paulo. Abbas' remarks were clearly aimed at Lula's...
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Atlas Shrugs (Free subscription) | yesterday
As South America continues to head South, David Bor writes me with this deeply disturbing update from Brazil. David writes: Yesterday,Friday (11-20) while receiving Mahmoud Abbas in Bahia one of the Brazilian States (the governor is a Jew),leftist president Lula da Silva said that Israel has to stop building in the "palestinian capital" meaning of course Jerusalem, and that Israel is the...
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Israel Matzav (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Remember how Abu Bluff said that he wasn't going to run again to be 'Palestinian President'? Well, he didn't tell a lie. Yet. You see, there aren't going to be 'Palestinian elections' anytime soon. This is from a Google translation of an al-Arabiya article in Arabic, hence the poor English: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas that the presidential and legislative elections Palestinian was
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Palestinian Pundit (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
Palestinian panel to sidestep vote ABBAS WOULD STAY IN POST Move embodies 'political consensus of the PLO' The Washington Post "JERUSALEM -- To keep the Palestinian Authority government working after its term expires in January, Palestinians are turning to an unelected group of political insiders instead of holding new elections , according to Palestinian officials and outside analysts. The Palestine...
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Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
JERUSALEM – In defiance of President Obama's demands that Israel cease building in sections of Jerusalem and the West Bank, New York state assemblyman Dov Hikind laid the cornerstone for the second phase of a new Jewish construction project in the Nof Tzion neighborhood in eastern Jerusalem.. Together with Knesset Member Danny Danon, a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party,...
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RealClearPolitics (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
WASHINGTON -- Few things are as dangerous in the Middle East as well-intentioned outsiders. They invariably bring unintended consequences upon those they would guide to a better life. Ask Job. Or consider the case of Mahmoud Abbas, whose hurt and fury over foreign meddling has triggered his threat to quit as Palestinian leader. No one could accuse President Barack Obama or Judge Richard Goldstone of...
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Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | yesterday
Fatah had made a strategic decision to declare a third intifada against Israel, movement officials told Nazereth-based newspaper Hadith Anas , citing the failed peace talks as the reason for their resolution. The newspaper report quoted Fatah Central Committee members as saying that the movement wished to implement a decision made during its sixth convention, which assembled last August in the West...
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People Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
Brazilian President Luiz Incio Lula da Silva said Friday after meeting the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) President Mahmoud Abbas that peace in Middle East depends on establishing a Palestinian state. "Fair and lasting peace in the region depends on establishing a prosperous, cohesive and unfettered Palestinian state," Lula emphasized. Both leaders held a work meeting at noon Friday...
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People Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) rejects a peace plan being drafted by Israeli President Shimon Peres, an official said on Friday. Yasser Abed Rabbo, an aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, said the plan is rejected because it doesn't include full freeze of settlement activities. "We will not look at any initiative, as long as it does not include a full stop of settlement in the...
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Denver Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
Palestinian officials announced Friday that a new date for parliamentary and presidential elections will be set next month now that President Mahmoud Abbas has agreed to postpone the January vote, though the Gaza Strip's Hamas rulers maintain they will boycott the voting.
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L.A. Times - Latin America Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Salvador, Brazil — Brazil’s President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva on Friday joined visiting Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in calling on Israel to stop building new settlements in areas claimed by Palestinians. Bogota, Colombia — Six people, including two children, were killed when suspected Colombian FARC guerrillas stopped and set fire to a bus traveling in the south...
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Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
John Lyons, Middle East correspondent AS the shock departure of Mahmoud Abbas sinks in for Palestinians, Ahmad Aweidah is rising fast in the new generation of leaders. Mr Aweidah, 39, insists he is not interested in politics, though he's rarely shy about entering the major debates. He argues that Mr Abbas's successor be Nasser al-Qudwa, nephew of the late PLO chief Yasser Arafat, rather than the contender...
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Women's Lens (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Palestine 1001 NightsHamas is negotiating with Israel. This is what Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas confidently said to a BBC -Arabic reporter in an exclusive interview. How does he know? Abbas asserted that there are "no secrets in Israel".If things could only be this simple in the Middle East, Mr. Abbas would have known from the get-go that the Oslo Accords were a disaster...
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Islamization Watch (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Palestinian labourer prays at a construction site in Gilo, a Jewish settlement on land Israel captured in 1967 and annexed to its Jerusalem municipality, November 17, 2009. So Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs has said “We are dismayed at the Jerusalem planning committee’s decision to move forward on the approval process for the expansion of Gilo in Jerusalem.” The Obama administration...
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Palestinian officials announced Friday that a new date for parliamentary and presidential elections will be set next month now that President Mahmoud Abbas has agreed to postpone the January vote, though the Gaza Strip's Hamas rulers maintain they will boycott the voting.
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