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Abu Mazen will not run again for the presidency. He decides to keep Mahmud Abbas as Palestinian President
18 hours ago ago from Uprooted Palestinians
PLO Decides to Keep Mahmud Abbas as Palestinian President 16/12/2009 The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) decided on Wednesday that Mahmoud Abbas will stay on as Palestinian president after his term expires next month, PLO officials declared. PLO Central Council members said Abbas, whose tenure ends on January 25, will remain in his post until elections can be held, extending until further notice the term of the Palestinian ...
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11 hours ago ago from EMET Blog
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas is afraid to restart peace negotiations with Israel because he wants to avoid having to finally make some concessions. Instead, he is putting new preconditions to those talks but, this time, ones he knows Israel cannot possibly meet. Abbas doesn't want a conflict-ending agreement and certainly doesn't want to be the one to have to sign one and risk suffering the fate of Anwar Sadat. If he wanted such an ...
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17 hours ago ago from A Pakistan News
RAMALLAH: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says he has told Israel's defense minister a peace deal could be reached in six months if Israel freezes settlement construction during that time. Abbas says he made the proposal when he spoke on the phone with Ehud Barak three weeks ago. Abbas told Israel's Haaretz daily in an interview published Wednesday that he has not received an Israeli response. Israel has rejected Palestinian and ...
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10 hours ago ago from NIGERIA GENERAL DISCUSSION BLOG WEBSITE
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas had called elections for January The term of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has been indefinitely extended until new elections are held. The decision was made at a meeting of the Palestine Liberation Organisation in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Parliament's mandate was extended too. The elections were due in January but have been postponed over differences between ...
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13 hours ago ago from The Corner Report
Abbas does not want a second term in office due to frustrations with Israel and the US The Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) has extended the mandates of both president Mahmoud Abbas and the Hamas-dominated parliament until new elections are held. The decision was made by PLO's Central Council at a meeting in Ramallah on Wednesday. Qaid al-Ghul, a PLO representative said: "The PLO took the decision that president Abbas and the ...
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Palestinian leaders to extend President Mahmoud Abbas's term indefinitely
23 hours ago ago from Washington Post - U.S.
RAMALLAH, WEST BANK -- The Palestine Liberation Organization's ruling Central Council gathered here this week to extend the soon-to-expire term of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, a session that promised to say as much about the drift and division in Palestinian politics as about the 74-year-old leader's standing. Delegates to the roughly 120-member body, representing a collection of political parties, labor unions and other ...
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15 hours ago ago from BBC
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas had called elections for January The term of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has been indefinitely extended until new elections are held. The decision was made at a meeting of the Palestine Liberation Organisation in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Parliament's mandate was extended too. The elections were due in January but have been postponed over differences between rival ...
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7 hours ago ago from U.S. News
Palestinian village caught amid Israel settlements QARIOUT, West Bank (AP) -- The head of this Palestinian village can't scan the horizon without being reminded of everything his people have lost. From the roof of the village council building, Abdelnasser Bedawi can see six of the nine Israeli settlements and outposts that have sprung up on the surrounding hills in the last three decades, fencing in the village and keeping it from ...
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