Posts Tagged: Mahmoud Abbas
Do Abbas and the PA Really Want Peace?
Diplomats may sign treaties, but only people make peace. If true, then Secretary of State Kerry's Middle East peace initiative-on-steroids may be doomed. Forget the...
Report: US Quietly Backed EU Settlement Sanctions
The United States quietly supported new EU sanctions against West Bank settlements, a senior European Union official told an Israeli diplomat last week, Israeli daily...
Peace Talks Set to Resume Wednesday in Jerusalem Under Media Blackout
JPost - Israel and the Palestinians are scheduled to begin substantive talks in Jerusalem on Wednesday, amid extremely low expectations on the Israeli...
In About Face, PA’s Abbas Asks Officially-Resigned PM Hamdallah to Form New Government
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas asked officially-resigned former PA Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah Tuesday to form a new government within the next five weeks,...
Jerusalem’s Temple Mount Reopens to Jews Post-Ramadan, But Freedom of Worship Remains Elusive at Holy Site
Jews were free to ascend the Temple Mount on Sunday, in Jerusalem, after a month-long ban expired overnight as Eid al-Fitr parties across the Muslim...
Report: Kerry Tells Congressmen That Israel Can Retain 85% of Settlement Blocs
Ynet - Secretary of State John Kerry estimated in conversations with Congressmen that Israel will retain 85% of the settlement blocs in a future peace deal, Yedioth...
Jewish Human Rights Group Knocks ‘Irony’ of Abbas’s Jew-Free Palestinian State
Officials from Jewish human rights group the Simon Wiesenthal Center hit back at comments made by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas that any future Palestinian...
‘Not a Single Israeli’ Would Populate Future Palestinian State, Says Abbas
JNS.org - While Israeli-Palestinian conflict negotiations began in Washington, DC, on Monday, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, speaking in Cairo, ruled out the "presence of...
Analysis: As Peace Talks Begin, Middle East Analysts Praise John Kerry, But Maintain Low Expectations
As peace talks were set to resume Monday evening in Washington at a gala post-Ramadan-fast dinner hosted by US Secretary of State John Kerry, long-time...
Israeli Appeasement
"The [Israeli] government decided to release terrorists and I ask, why? In return for what? What have we received? This crossing of a line, of...
Report: Palestinians Claim US to Oppose Any Interim Agreement In Favor of Final Status Deal
Jerusalem Post - The US has given the Palestinian Authority assurances that it will reject any Israeli proposals to establish a Palestinian state with provisional...
TIME Magazine: Peace Talks May Fail Because of Israel
TIME Magazine's Jerusalem bureau chief, Karl Vick, published a list of reasons why he believes the newest round of peace talks between Israel and the...
Families of Israeli Terror Victims Express Outrage at Proposed Release of Palestinian Terrorists for Peace Talks
Expected concessions on the part of Israel aimed at inducing the Palestinian Authority to enter into peace talks are rankling many in the Jewish State. Israel...
US State Department: Peace Talks to Go Forward, Martin Indyk Not Tapped to Lead Negotiations
Times of Israel - The State Department confirmed on Monday that the Palestinians agreed to participate in new peace talks with Israel, dismissing comments to...
