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Mahmoud Abbas

Mahmoud Abbas is the head of the Palestinian Authority, a position he undertook in January 2005. He is a member of the Fatah, and has been a chairman of the PLO since November 2004, succeeding Yasser Arafat. He was born in Safed, and fled with his family to Syria in 1948 when Israel's independence day war broke out. He studied law at the University of Damascus and obtained a PhD degree at the Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow, where he wrote a dissertaion on the "secret relationship between zionism and nazism." Abbas is married to Amina Abbas and has three sons - two living, and one deceased.
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 PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the United Nations General Assembly, last Friday. As powerful as it was, the speech fell largely on deaf ears, the writer maintains.

UN’s anti-Israel majority: Misinformation and hypocrisy reign at the General Assembly

 Mahmoud Abbas, President of Palestine, places his hand on his heart as he pauses while speaking during the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) at the United Nations headquarters on September 26, 2024 in New York City.

Israel must be stripped of UN membership, Abbas tells General Assembly

 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the UNGA, September 22, 2023.

Netanyahu, Abbas to address the UN this week

 PA HEAD Mahmoud Abbas attends the World Economic Forum in Riyadh, last month. To rely on Abbas’s corrupt, impotent, poisonous, and terror-glorifying Palestinian Authority as a ruling alternative to Hamas would be insane, the writer argues.

Palestinian Authority fails to meet minimum fiscal transparency - US State Dept

 PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the Turkish parliament in Ankara, earlier this month. He is currently serving the 20th year of the four-year term to which he was elected in 2005

Abbas, the PLO and the PA actively promote the destruction of Israel

By MAURICE HIRSCH
 PA HEAD Mahmoud Abbas attends the World Economic Forum in Riyadh, last month. To rely on Abbas’s corrupt, impotent, poisonous, and terror-glorifying Palestinian Authority as a ruling alternative to Hamas would be insane, the writer argues.

Mahmoud Abbas plans to visit Gaza, Jerusalem

 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas gestures, as he attends a swearing-in ceremony for the newly formed cabinet, in Ramallah, in the West Bank, March 31, 2024.

Russia's Putin to talk Middle East crisis with Palestinian President Abbas, Kremlin says

By REUTERS
 IDF soldiers operate in Jenin, the West Bank, August 6, 2024.

Israel-Hamas War:What happened on day 305?

 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas gestures, as he attends a swearing-in ceremony for the newly formed cabinet, in Ramallah, in the West Bank, March 31, 2024.

Ismail Haniyeh's death will prolong Israel's war in Gaza, Mahmoud Abbas says

By REUTERS
 Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas waves during a swearing in ceremony of mewly-appointed ministers, on March 31, 2024, in Ramallah, in the West Bank.

No place in world of law and order: Abbas writes to Trump after assassination attempt

By Walla!
 Mussa Abu Marzuk, senior member of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas signs a document. July 23, 2024.

'Hamas on its knees, in need of lifeline': Analyst explains Palestinian unity agreement

By 103FM
 British Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivers a speech, following his first cabinet meeting as Prime Minister, in London, Britain, July 6, 2024.

Starmer talks Gaza, Palestinian statehood in calls with Netanyahu, Abbas

 Shawwa and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas pose with the Golden Union Medal of Achievement from the Union of Arab Banks, at Abbas' office in Ramallah, May 18, 2018.

Netanyahu: Allowing PA to collapse not in Israel's interest

 Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and Islamic Jihad leader Ziyad Al Nakhalaj discuss the ceasefire proposal before they response to Qatari and Egyptian mediators in Doha, Qatar, June 11, 2024.

Palestinian unity talks in China postponed, Palestinian officials say

By REUTERS
- Samer Sinijlawi addresses the Future of Israel conference, Tel Aviv University, June 19, 2024.

'Abbas has failed': Fatah opponent Samer Sinijlawi details path to peace

By Giorgia Valente/The Media Line
Activists from the BDS movement against Israel [File]

Oops! Palestinian Authority acquires machinery from BDS-boycotted company

  A Palestinian fighter from the armed wing of Hamas takes part in a military parade to mark the anniversary of the 2014 war with Israel, near the border in the central Gaza Strip, July 19, 2023.

The ‘Swedish Village’ in Gaza is microcosm of the tragedy of the war

 US Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Secretary General of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Hussein al-Sheikh in Ramallah in the West Bank January 31, 2023.

Shouting match ensues between senior Arab officials at Blinken meeting

By Walla!