Mahmoud Abbas

Declare 2017 year to end Israel occupation: Abbas

President Mahmoud Abbas has called on the UN to declare 2017 the year “to end the Israeli occupation” of Palestinian land and people, saying that Israel’s settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank is destroying any hope of a two-state solution. During a speech before the UN General Assembly on Thursday,[…]

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Abbas visit a “PR exercise”: MRN

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas visit to South Africa has been met with scepticism from some Palestinian activists, with one lobby group calling it nothing more than a “PR exercise”. Abbas is holding bilateral discussions with President Jacob Zuma and the counterparts are expected to discuss initiatives aimed at resolving the[…]

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Rainbow Nation can be a lesson for Palestinians

OPINION by Peter Fabricius. What is the real purpose of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s visit to South Africa this week to meet President Jacob Zuma in Cape Town on Tuesday? Both Pretoria and Ramallah have indicated it’s about the French initiative to try to achieve a peace settlement between Israel[…]

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Palestine after Abbas: The future of a people at stake

OPINION by Ramzy Baroud – Although intended to inspire his Fatah Party followers, a televised speech by Mahmoud Abbas on the 51st Anniversary of the group’s launch highlighted, instead, the unprecedented crisis that continues to wreak havoc on the Palestinian people. Not only did Abbas sound defensive and lacking in[…]

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Abbas to UN: ‘We need protection’

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has called for “international protection” for his people as the death toll in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories continues to rise. While addressing a special meeting of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Wednesday, Abbas called for the creation of a “special[…]

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Abbas does not want escalation with Israel

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Tuesday he did not want a spike in deadly violence in East Jerusalem and the Israeli-occupied West Bank to spiral into armed confrontation with Israel. Four Israelis have been killed since Thursday in a stabbing and a drive-by shooting blamed on Palestinian militants. Police[…]

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Abbas’s U.N. speech: not a bang but a whimper

Before his speech to the United Nations late on Wednesday, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas promised to drop a “bombshell”. In the event, he delivered little more than strong words that may amount to a hollow threat. For most of his address, Abbas took Israel to task over its 48-year occupation,[…]

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