Mahmoud Abbas

With Moderates Like Abbas...

by Dr. Richard L. Cravatts ...who needs radicals? Mahmoud Abbas’s comments at memorial service on the fourth anniversary of Yasser Arafat’s death this month provide ample evidence that the central ideology of Palestinianism...

British Foreign Minister to Tour Sderot

British Foreign Secretary David Miliband is scheduled to visit the rocket-battered Negev town of Sderot Monday following talks Sunday evening with Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni. As they spoke, Gaza terrorists fired more Kassam...

Livni: Hamas to blame for Gaza plight

Israeli FM tells British counterpart 'world's responsibility not to turn a blind eye, use all means at its disposal to stop terror'; Miliband expresses concern over continued settlement expansion called on the international...

Opening up of a of a mosque that will be the named after martyr Yasser Arafat

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Ahmad Soboh met the Representative of Finland and Representative of Sri Lanka, Dr. T. Jayasinghe, separately. Dr. Ahmed Soboh discussed with the Representative of Sri Lanka to the...

Palestinian forces arrest 12 Hamas members in West Bank

RAMALLAH, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) -- Palestinian security forces arrested 12 members of Hamas in West Bank in an ongoing crackdown against the Islamic movement, Hamas said on Sunday. The arrests, by the forces loyal to president...

Aide: Abbas to ask Olmert to stop escalation on southern front

Nabil Abu Rdeneh, aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Sunday that the Palestinian leader would "urge the prime minister to make every effort not to let things slide, to avoid further suffering of the people in the...

Abbas: Retreat or War

Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas sent a letter to PA Arabs on Saturday saying Israel must retreat to its 1949 borders or face war. “The passage of years... will not force us to abandon or surrender a single inch,”...

Biden foreboding coming true

Gulf News When Senator Joe Biden, Barack Obama's vice-president, said a few weeks ago that the new president of the United States will be tested by an international crisis in the first six months of his term, he was dead...

Back to Basics

While the Israeli government, US and pretty much the entire Western world place their trust in Mahmoud Abbas and his Fatah party (not to mention weapons and training), our “peace partners” are discussing whether or not they...

Abbas to meet Olmert next week

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will meet next week in Jerusalem to discuss U.S.-backed peace negotiations, a senior Palestinian official said Saturday.