Mahmoud Abbas

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Netanyahu Rejects Peace After Hamas and Fatah Reconciliation

by Stephen Lendman December 28, 2011

Netanyahu: If Hamas joins the Palestinian government, we will not hold negotiations with the Palestinian Authority….The peace process can only advance while maintaining security arrangements, which is becoming more difficult in light of the current situation in the region.

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The Palestinians’ new weapon

by SR Editor November 16, 2011

If the Palestinians apply for membership in each UN specialized agencies over the next year or so, they will probably get the same 88 per cent majority when it comes to a vote on membership. Using this new lever that has fallen into his hands, Abbas could actually drive the United States out of most international agencies if he wanted.

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Palestine – What Next?

by Alan Hart November 14, 2011

Arafat was never a member of the discredited Arab Leadership Club. Abbas is a fully paid up member and his decision to seek UN recognition of a Palestinian state was entirely self-serving.

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Lawlessness and Injustice Define America and Israel

by Stephen Lendman September 5, 2011

The plan calls for Israeli children to confront their Palestinian counterparts, Israeli women and men doing the same thing. At home, America is plagued by police state laws.

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Will ‘Nipper’ Cameron obey Tel Aviv’s trumpet or vote for Palestinian freedom?

by Stuart Littlewood August 29, 2011

Stuart Littlewood wonders whether British Prime Minister David Cameron will have the courage and integrity to apply to Palestine the principles which he claims to embrace in respect of Libya – supporting freedom and democracy – by backing the Palestinians’ bid for UN recognition of their statehood.

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‘Jewish state’ means Jewish fascism

by Khalid Amayreh July 19, 2011

New U.S. formula: Palestinian recognition of the “Jewishness” of Israel in exchange for an American endorsement of a Palestinian “state” on unspecific parts of the West Bank and few scattered neighborhoods of occupied East Jerusalem.

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Abbas: A September Palestinian State or Lose World Support

by Mohamed Khodr July 4, 2011

The Palestinian Authority, under Mahmoud Abbas, must immediately stop the limping and lackluster effort and present their resolution this September to the U.N. General Assembly to recognize a Palestinian State. This will be the only worthy initiative that the PA has ever adopted since its founding in which the far majority of the world is supportive.

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No Savior

by SR Editor June 20, 2011

Fayyad cannot be held primarily responsible for this collective self-delusion; at most, he facilitated it. And in the process he provided all actors with a breathing space that is now disappearing. Ultimately, the ones who convinced themselves he was capable of completely transforming Palestine are most responsible for squandering the brief respite his premiership offered.

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The Palestinian Authority’s historic mistake – and opportunity

by SR Editor June 20, 2011

Jeff Halper calls on Palestinian Authority leaders, foremost Mahmoud Abbas, to honour their historic national responsibility, mobilize the immense resources of Palestinian and world civil society and push for UN recognition of Palestinian independence in September “as the head of a national unity government with the support of the world’s peoples, Mandela-like” and thereby “decisively change the course of events forever”.

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Muddle and mixed messages precede Palestinian bid for UN recognition

by Stuart Littlewood June 11, 2011

With the date for the purported Palestinian bid for UN recognition fast approaching, Stuart Littlewood views the mixed messages emanating from the Palestinian Authority, the inept messengers and the absence of a competent and credible public relations campaign ahead of the bid.

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Palestinians must urgently mobilize world civil society support for September’s UN recognition bid

by Stuart Littlewood June 5, 2011

Stuart Littlewood shares the concern of pro-Palestinian activists worldwide at the failure so far of the Palestinian Authority, including its lacklustre and PR-inept London “embassy”, to start mobilizing world public opinion for the planned bid this September for UN membership and recognition of Palestinian independence.

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Egypt and Israel heading for crisis

by Jonathan Cook May 7, 2011

Jonathan Cook argues that post-Mubarak Egypt’s reassessment of its policies towards Israel and the Palestinians is plunging the Zionist state into a mood of deep depression and anxiety.

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A False Friend in the White House

by SR Editor February 25, 2011

The man who declared in Cairo on June 4, 2009 that a two-state solution was “in the “Israel’s interest, the Palestinians’ interest, America’s interest, and the world’s interest” must have changed his mind, because his actions ever since have merely hastened the moment when creating two viable states will be impossible (if that is not already the case).

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How (Dis)honest is the Honest Broker?

by Richard Falk February 20, 2011

Of course this American veto is not some idiosyncratic whim, but is an expression of the sorry pro-Israeli realities of domestic politics, suggesting that it is Israel that is the real holder of the veto in this situation, and the U.S. Congress and the Israeli Lobby are merely designated as the enforcers.

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Our Multiple Realities Mess

by Lawrence Davidson February 20, 2011

The resolution had over120 cosponsors (just about the entire non-Western world) and the support of every other member of the Security Council. The only thing wrong with it was that it singled out the Israelis as the culprits and was thus anathema to the politicians in Washington. For the Obama administration, it was a supremely embarrassing moment.

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