Mahmoud Abbas

GAZA, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) -- A senior Hamas official on Tuesday said the Doha agreement between Hamas and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was not final. The remarks of Mahmoud Zahar, a Gaza-based member of the Islamic movement's political bureau, reflect ...  

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) -- A mounting rebellion by Hamas leaders in Gaza against a breakthrough power-sharing agreement with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas highlights a potentially fatal flaw - the deal never spelled out how the Western ...  

msnbc.comIsrael's new peace camp is playing into Hamas' handsHaaretzWho remembers, for example, that former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert wrote in the New York Times last September that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas had not rejected his plan. So what if as far back as 10 years ago, the Palestinians adopted the Arab ...AJC: Hamas Leader's Visit to Iran Underscores Ominous Threats to IsraelMarketWatch (press release)all 883 news articles »  

Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas said on Sunday that the PA will not meet Israel’s demand that it recognize the Jewish state, Kol Yisrael radio reported. According to the report, Abbas explained this statement using the reasoning that once ...  

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accused Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of having 'turned his back on peace'. He was referring to a speech Abbas made to the to the Arab League Council on Sunday, in which Abbas said he would not continue ...  

A Palestinian man has been killed and four others have been wounded in Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip last night ... Palestinian efforts to establish a temporary unity government led by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas continue.  

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud ‘Abbas has issued an ultimatum to Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to either initiate an absolute freeze on building in Israeli communities located on land acquired in the 1967 war and accept ...  

President Mahmoud Abbas met with the central committees of Fatah and the PLO on Thursday. President Mahmoud Abbas (L) and Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal (R) walk with Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani  

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has told the Arab League he will not resume peace talks without an Israeli settlement freeze. Abbas is under international pressure to resume low-level border talks that began last month. However, his comments in Cairo ...  

Iran has used the visit of Gaza’s Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh to offer “scientific and technological experience” to the PA for a “victory” over Israel. Iran's Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi told Haniyeh Saturday of “the need for Palestinian ...  

Khaled Abu Toameh Abbas collecting autocratic titles, including those he denied to Arafat.At a time when Arab heads of state are facing popular uprisings demanding reforms and democracy, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has secured himself yet another job: Prime Minister.Earlier this week, Palestinians were surprised to hear that Abbas had reached a deal with Hamas to form a unity government that would be headed by the...  

AMMAN, Jordan, Feb. 11 (UPI) -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met Saturday with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair before heading to Cairo for an Arab League summit. Blair is now a special envoy to the Middle East representing the ...  

Witnesses said Israeli warplanes struck four targets in the eastern and southern parts of Gaza City and in the southern Gaza Strip towns of Khan Younis and Rafah around ... by acting Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas continue.  

This week's meeting between Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal highlighted their common strategic goal, despite their bitter rivalry in recent years: The PLO's Phased Plan aimed at the establishment of a Palestinian state in all of what was Palestine within the Ottoman/British Mandate borders. Abbas (who is both the chairman of the PLO, established in 1964, and Fatah, established in 1959) told the U.N...  

Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, the chief of the supreme council of the armed forces (SCAF) conferred yesterday 12/2/2012 with Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas Abu Mazen on the latest developments on the regional and international arenas and ...