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“... resolution that condemned annexation as a war crime, ‘the daughter’s husband’, as Mahmoud Abbas calls him, hit the pause button. As well as requiring US-Israeli agreement on a map, Kushner demanded that the main coalition partners in the Israeli government agree on the contours of annexation, which he knew they wouldn’t. Thus 1 July came and went.In ...”

“... in Syrian is compared to a jail. ‘The religious collective then becomes a prison,’ Hassan Abbas writes, ‘the inmates of which can only see the world through a narrow window.’The book includes work by visual artists such as Sulafa Hijazi and the cartoonist Ali Ferzat, and also covers photography, cell phone footage, posters calling people to ...”

“... if they had arrest warrants. But they ‘didn’t need any warrants. Whatever they said would go.’The council had decided to meet to discuss widespread attacks against Baha’is during the Revolution. Fereydun Vahman, in his 2019 book 175 Years of Persecution, records that one couple were ‘drenched in kerosene and set on fire’, ‘Baha’i girls ...”

“... it won’t relinquish its stockpiles of enriched uranium. According to the deputy foreign minster, Abbas Araqchi, who was doing most of the actual negotiating at Geneva, not ‘even a gram’ of uranium will be exported. At the same time, Iran wants the oil and banking sanctions that have scorched its economy to be lifted, and a recognition of its ...”

“... their bags. In the Occupied Territories themselves there is strong unity from below and Mahmoud Abbas, who initially remained silent and refused to visit Gaza, is now talking of ‘Israeli war crimes’, but his security apparatus and the PLO leadership has been collaborating with the IDF ever since the Oslo Accords. Hamas might have been drawn to this ...”

“... and sever both relations with Washington and security collaboration with Israel. Should Mahmoud Abbas seek to avoid political confrontation, or order his security forces to prevent Palestinians from taking matters into their own hands, it could cost him dearly. Yet few people expect him to break meaningfully with either the US or Israel. The impact on the ...”

“... polity partially ruled by militant Islamists to a unified one led by the pliant Mahmoud Abbas, who remains committed to negotiations and publicly proclaims security collaboration with Israel to be ‘sacred’. Concerned that a reconciliation at a time of growing Palestinian unrest could lead to another uprising, Israel sought to pre-empt it. In ...”