GAZA -- Initial Palestinian reports late Sunday indicated that the leaders of the rival Palestinian movements Fatah and Hamas might have found a way to break a long political deadlock by forming an interim unity government that would be led, at least at first, by Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority based in the West Bank. Mr....
JERUSALEM -- Israeli negotiators told their Palestinian counterparts this week that their guiding principle for drawing the borders of a future two-state solution would be for existing settlement blocks to become part of Israel, an approach that the Palestinians rejected as unacceptable. The discussion, which occurred in Jordan on Wednesday night,...
RAMALLAH, West Bank -- The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, said Wednesday that a round of exploratory discussions with Israel under Jordanian auspices had ended. But he left open the possibility of a resumption of contacts under certain conditions and after consultations with Arab League representatives on Feb. 4. Jordan played host to five...
Mahmoud Abbas (Arabisk: محمود عباس) (født 26. marts, 1935), også kendt som Abu Mazen (ابو مازن), blev valgt som præsident for det Palæstinensiske selvstyre ved en afstemning den 10. januar 2005, og blev indsat i embedet 15. januar 2005.