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“... and Israel present one of the greatest challenges yet posed to the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, and his strategy of bilateral negotiations, diplomacy and security co-operation with Israel. The unrest – its proximate cause was increased restrictions on Palestinian access to al-Aqsa Mosque – reflects a sense among Palestinians that their ...”

“... of the protests in Egypt were broken up by security forces, without much difficulty. Mahmoud Abbas and his associates in the Palestinian Authority didn’t want to see the overthrow of Mubarak, a close ally; Hamas wanted regime change in Cairo, but couldn’t say so openly in case Mubarak survived: Egypt controls the border at the Rafah crossing. The ...”

“... lose in light of the report's findings, and everything to gain. Yet the PA’s chairman, Mahmoud Abbas, was persuaded that going forward with its resolution would give the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, a pretext to avoid resuming negotiations – and the resolution would, in any case, be vetoed by the Obama administration. To the Palestinian ...”

“... than of the Muslim Brotherhood which spawned it. Doha may have given the PA president, Mahmoud Abbas, a wink and a nod to expand punitive measures against the Gaza Strip, to remind Sinwar that relations with Tehran are no substitute for Qatar’s patronage, and that Doha expects him to embrace the new policies and avoid confrontation with Israel. The ...”

“... Mahmoud Abbas’s address to the United Nations General Assembly on 23 September fell considerably short of Yasir Arafat’s electrifying 1974 speech from the same podium. Nor did it compare with Haidar Abdul Shafi’s dignified – and unanswerable – call for justice at the 1991 Madrid Peace Conference. Yet it may come to be seen as a historic turning point in the fortunes of the Palestinian people ...”

“... was going on when the Iranian Airbus took off from the joint military/civilian airfield at Bandar Abbas on a daily trip to Dubai. The official report emphasises that ‘special occasions, such as Moslem or American holidays inevitably precipitated intelligence reports that the Iranians were preparing a particular operation directed at Americans.’ (Happy ...”