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May 22, 2024 · Mahmoud Abbas, a long-time politician and architect of diplomatic ties with Israel, has been the president of the Palestinian Authority (PA) for nearly two decades since the death of former...
Nov 15, 2023 · Abbas, who is now 88 years old, said that the PA was ready to step in, but only “within the framework of a comprehensive political solution”—a solution, he argues, that would necessitate creating...
Oct 28, 2023 · Mahmoud Abbas is the president of the Palestinian Authority, the governing body that exercises partial control over the West Bank. Abbas is a member of the Fatah party, a group that has had...
- Emma Klein
Political activism and career. In the mid-1950s, Abbas became heavily involved in underground Palestinian politics, joining a number of exiled Palestinians in Qatar, where he was Director of Personnel in the emirate's Civil Service.
Aug 30, 2024 · The Israeli offensive, which left some 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis dead, seriously eroded Abbas’s support. Many Palestinians now regarded him not only as powerless to stop the assault but also, given his feud with Hamas, as complicit in it.
- Khaled Elgindy
Jan 31, 2023 · JERUSALEM, Jan 31 (Reuters) - Mahmoud Abbas spent much of his life before becoming Palestinian president in the shadow of Yasser Arafat, long the figurehead of the Palestinian cause, but he...
A new poll released Tuesday by the Israel Democracy Institute, a Tel Aviv think tank, found 59% of Jewish Israelis opposed to the establishment of a Palestinian state as part of a deal to end...
