Ria Novosti (Free subscription) | yesterday
Palestinians will not launch a new rebellion against Israel in the West Bank over a lack of progress at peace talks, President Mahmoud Abbas said on Tuesday.
News: Opinion -- KansasCity.com (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Israel’s announcement that it’s moving forward with plans to build 900 new homes in an Israeli settlement in East Jerusalem – which Palestinians consider their capital – has sparked outrage from just about everyone with an interest in Middle East peace. Palestinian frustration is rapidly rising. Understandably dismayed by the stalled peace talks, Mahmoud Abbas...
Reuters (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Wednesday he plans to stay on his post until the next election is held, but repeated he will not run for reelection.
Worldfocus (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Today, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu proposed a 10-month freeze on settlement construction. For more on the latest announcement, Martin Savidge speaks with Ghassan Shabaneh, a Palestinian-American professor at Marymount College. Shabaneh talks about how Netanyahu might be trying to prop up Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and why the Palestinians have already rejected Israel's offer....
Middle East Watch (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Jerusalem Post : "Negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians have reached a 'deep and worrying impasse,' said assistant US Secretary-General for Political Affairs Haile Menkerios on Tuesday. Menkerios stated that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas'sannouncement that he wished to withdraw from politics reflected 'a worrying assessment, from a leader unquestionably devoted to peace,...
J O S H U A P U N D I T (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
Israel's Security cabinet voted to approve a 10 month 'settlement freeze' on building in Judea and Samaria ( AKA the West bank)as a peace offering to try and get negotiations between Israel and Fatah started: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu announced a ten-month settlement freeze at a Jerusalem press conference on Wednesday evening after the security cabinet approved the plan, and said the move was...
Angry Arab News Service (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
"He said the Israeli government and the Obama administration are both committed to strengthening the leadership of Mahmoud Abbas."
France24 (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's offer of a 10-month moratorium on new building permits for Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank falls short of Palestinian terms for talks, said a spokesman for Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday.
Israel Matzav (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
They're not smiling and laughing together anymore, but you would have to have been blind not to see this one coming: 'Moderate' 'Palestinian' President Mahmoud Abbas Abu Mazen complained on Tuesday from Argentina that the President who made the 'Palestinians' his top priority is 'doing nothing' for Middle East 'peace.' "For now he is doing nothing, but he has invited us to revive the peace
Elder of Ziyon (Free subscription) | yesterday
From Al Arabiya : American President Barack Obama is " doing nothing " to restart the stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace process, Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas said in an interview published on Tuesday. "I hope he'll take a more important role in the future," Abbas told the Argentine daily Clarin during a visit to Buenos Aires. The Palestinians "are waiting for the United...
Antony Loewenstein (Free subscription) | yesterday
This one line in a Reuters story says it all: [Mahmoud] Abbas, for his part, holds sway in the occupied West Bank, his administration largely propped up by Israel. The “model” for Palestinian independence, indeed.
Sify (Free subscription) | yesterday
Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has said US President Barack Obama 'is doing nothing for the peace process' in the Middle East.
Truthdig (Free subscription) | yesterday
President Obama just got a report card from Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, and it’s not good. According to Abbas, Obama “is doing nothing for the peace process” between Israelis and Palestinians thus far, and in fact, Obama might do well to follow Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s lead when it comes to Mideast diplomacy, judging by Abbas’...
Memri Latest Blogs (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Palestinian news agency Maan reported that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said at a press conference in Argentina yesterday, "The Palestinian people is not thinking to return to the intifada or to launch a new intifada, because it ... November 24, 2009, 11:00 am
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Buenos Aires - Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas complained that US President Barack Obama is doing nothing for the peace process in the Middle East so far. For now he is doing nothing, but he has invited us to revive the peac...
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