...obstacle to peace for the past 60 years remains the same today: the Palestinians. The Palestinian Authority, led by Mahmoud Abbas and the Fatah Party, is powerless to make any real deal. With Hamas in control of Gaza and the P.A.âs authority only stretching...
...in Hebron and other West Bank areas could end the peace process. Nabil Abu Rudeineh, spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, condemned in a statement the settlers' attacks against Palestinian civilians in the southern West Bank city of Hebron. He...
...live with a two-state deal, despite its spiel about destroying Israel. But if we talk to Hamas we knock the legs from under Mahmoud Abbas. For now heâs still our Joe and the Palestiniansâ president. As for Israel, Ehud Olmert was a cooing dove compared to...
...than an antidote to it. Therefore, we must hold our noses and support, if necessary, Egyptâs Hosni Mubarak, the West Bankâs Mahmoud Abbas, and Tunisiaâs Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, because après eux, le déluge. In just seven years, we have entered a post-post-9/11...
...Yousef, an Islamic Jihad official. Â Â Â Â He implicitly blamed the power struggle between Hamas and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' secular Fatah movement, saying the fighting and the ensuing split between the Gaza Strip and West Bank contributed to the...
...small bare room crammed with four metal beds. They are among some 350 men across the West Bank, mainly allied to PA President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah group, who have renounced violence under an amnesty programme agreed with Israel. An incongruous mix of photos...
...factors but was mainly due to improved coordination between Israel and the PA, as well as a decision by PA President Mahmoud Abbas to make a concerted effort to stop Hamas' build-up in the West Bank. Fayyad spoke to journalists after he met with diplomats...
...its blockade of the Gaza Strip a year ago after Hamas wrested the territory from secular Fatah forces loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas. Under a shaky six-month-old Egyptian-brokered truce, Israel had started easing the closure. But the Jewish state clamped...
...like Gaza. However, its streets are not yet free from incursions and riots, and the imminent end of the PA president Mahmoud Abbas's term next month carries further risk of a severe intra-Palestinian struggle. But, in the meantime, life goes on. On weekday...
...4 (Reuters) - Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority and leader of the long-dominant, secular Fatah faction of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), is in conflict with Hamas, the Islamist movement which won a parliamentary election in...