A spokesman for the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said the U.S President has invited him to visit the White House to discuss resuming peace talks in a telephone call Friday, the first contact between the two leaders since Trump took office in January. Abbas spokesman Nabil Abu Rdeneh said President Trump invited the Palestinian leader to visit “soon.” He said. Israel Sep 16, 2016
In his landmark speech to the Arab world seven years ago, President Barack Obama warned that Israeli settlements on occupied territories were undermining hopes for peace. “It is time for these settlements to stop,” he declared. As Obama heads into the home stretch of his presidency, he leaves behind an unfulfilled vision. Not only did he fail to stop it,.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has finally canceled the upcoming election scheduled for May 22nd in the Palestinian-controlled territories. This was to be expected, and of course he blamed Israel. The reason he gave was that Israel had barred the Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem from participating. This excuse is not only clever, it might have been coordinated with Israel.
The idea of calling elections within the Palestinian Authority for the first time in 15 years was well meant, because that is part of every democracy. There was only one problem with this: According to every single poll, Hamas would have won a majority.
International recognition of Palestine would not be mere symbolism
Yossi Mekelberg
May 04, 2021 23:19
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas during a Security Council meeting at the United Nations, in New York. (Reuters/File)
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Since the collapse of John Kerry’s peace initiative in 2014, the peace process between the Israelis and Palestinians has entered a prolonged hibernation. Both the Israeli and Palestinian political systems are preoccupied with internal discord, and the international community has either lost interest or the belief that it can make any difference in terms of ending this intractable conflict.
Periodically, the idea of the formal recognition of a Palestinian state by other states or international bodies such as the UN or the EU is floated as a game-changer that will break the impasse. So far, it has been more of a trickle than a flood of countries and institutions recognizing Palestine as a state most notably the decisions b
A spokesman for the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said the U.S President has invited him to visit the White House to discuss resuming peace talks in a telephone call Friday, the first contact between the two leaders since Trump took office in January. Abbas spokesman Nabil Abu Rdeneh said President Trump invited the Palestinian leader to visit “soon.” He said. Israel Sep 16, 2016
In his landmark speech to the Arab world seven years ago, President Barack Obama warned that Israeli settlements on occupied territories were undermining hopes for peace. “It is time for these settlements to stop,” he declared. As Obama heads into the home stretch of his presidency, he leaves behind an unfulfilled vision. Not only did he fail to stop it,.
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