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RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has said presidential and legislative elections scheduled for January will be postponed, confirming that he has accepted advice not to hold the vote. Abbas, speaking to BBC Arabic, said the Palestinian leadership would take measures to avoid a constitutional vacuum when the term of the current legislature and his term as president expire on January 25. He did not say what measures would be taken to avoid a constitutional vacuum. Abbas also said he would not seek a second term as president. He had previously said he had no desire to run in the elections ... Read Full Story
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has agreed to postpone parliamentary and presidential elections that had been set for January. The Palestinian Election Commission said Friday it would meet in December to set a new date, though the Gaza Strip's Hamas rulers maintain they will boycott the vote. Abbas said in an interview with BBC Arabic on Thursday that he hopes to reconcile with his Hamas rivals so a vote can go forward in Gaza, as well as the West Bank and Arab areas of Jerusalem. Abbas' government only controls the West Bank. The Election Commission recommended the delay last week because of Hamas opposition. Hamas ... Read Full Story
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Palestinian labourer prays at a construction site in Gilo, a Jewish settlement on land Israel captured in 1967 and annexed to its Jerusalem municipality, November 17, 2009. So Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs has said “We are dismayed at the Jerusalem planning committee’s decision to move forward on the approval process for the expansion of Gilo in Jerusalem.” The Obama administration could have been a lot less dismayed and actually showed some success on the world stage vis a vis Israel/Palestine if they had started by trying for something realistic. Instead this crowd of amateurs blundered into the area, acting as if they knew nothing ... Read Full Story
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Israeli President Shimon Peres called on Tuesday for Palestinians to "show that they control their own people" before seeking UN recognition of an independent state. Peres, who is ending a two-day visit to Argentina, said Palestinians "have split their country, not us." It is "not enough to say: we are going to ask for a resolution. Hamas will not let (Palestinian president Mahmud) Abbas to do so," Peres told the Argentine Council for International Relations on the UN Security Council. Hoping to break the deadlock after 11 months of stalemate in the peace talks with Israel, the Palestinian Authority said Sunday it would ask ... Read Full Story
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Mahmud Abbas's mandate as Palestinian president, disputed by Hamas, could be extended to avoid a constitutional vacuum, a Palestinian official said on Sunday. "The PLO central committee will discuss the options to avoid a constitutional vacuum" at its meeting due to take place on December 15, Mohammed Dahlan told reporters in the West Bank town of Ramallah. "One of them (the options) is the extension of the mandate of president Abbas," said Dahlan, a member of both the committee and of the Palestinian leader's mainstream Fatah party. The Palestinian electoral commission said last Thursday that the elections called for January should be postponed because ... Read Full Story
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Mahmoud Abbas (born March 26, 1935), commonly known by the kunya or nom de guerre Abu Mazen, was elected President of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) on January 9, 2005, and took office on January 15, 2005.
 
Abbas is a leading politician in Fatah. He served as the first Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority from March to October 2003 when he resigned citing lack of support from Israel and the United States as well as "internal incitement" against his government.  Before being named Prime Minister, Abbas led the PLO's Negotiations Affairs Department. He has served as Chairman of the PLO Executive Committee since November 11, 2004, after Yasser Arafat's death. With Hamas now in control of the Palestinian Authority, Abbas is frequently portrayed as the face of Palestinian moderation.
 
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Jailed Tanzim leader and Fatah Central Committee member Marwan Barghouti urged Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian factions to lead a 'popular resistance' to stop Israeli...  
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As South America continues to head South, David Bor writes me with this deeply disturbing update from Brazil. David writes: Yesterday,Friday (11-20) while receiving Mahmoud Abbas in Bahia one of the Brazilian States (the governor is a Jew),leftist president Lula da Silva said that Israel has to stop building in the "palestinian capital" meaning of course Jerusalem, and that Israel is the great opressor of the palestinian people. Lula also said...  
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said in an Interview with BBC that the Palestinian general elections which were scheduled to be held in January will be postponed stressing that he took this decision according to an advice. Abbas said that the Palestinian leadership will take the needed measures ...  
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Brazilian President Luiz Incio Lula da Silva said Friday after meeting the Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas that peace in Middle East depends on establishing a Palestinian state.  
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has said presidential and legislative elections scheduled for January will be postponed, confirming that he has accepted advice not to hold the vote.Abbas, speaking to BBC Arabic, said the Palestinian leadership would take measures to avoid a constitutional vacuum - although he did not spell these out.  
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