JERUSALEM -- President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority embraced reconciliation with the Islamist movement Hamas on Monday, agreeing to head a unity government to prepare for elections in the West Bank and Gaza. His move was welcomed cautiously by a broad range of Palestinians who are fed up with the brutal split at the heart of their...
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,...
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.