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Mahmoud Abbas

Mahmoud Abbas speaks onstage
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Squeezed out in Gaza, PA’s Abbas embraces Israeli peace activists in Ramallah

by Steven Davidson October 10, 2025October 10, 2025

(JTA) — RAMALLAH, West Bank — As a teacher at a school in the Galilee in northern Israel, peace activist Shoshana Lavan says students often told her during the war, […]

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas denounces the Trump administration's Israeli-Palestinian peace plan at a meeting of the U.N. Security Council in New York City, Feb. 11, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Spencer Platt-Getty Images)
Posted inUncategorized

At J Street conference, Mahmoud Abbas says he’s ready to ‘remove obstacles’ to relations with US

by Ron Kampeas and JTA April 20, 2021April 20, 2021
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (center) attends the Arab League's foreign ministers meeting in Cairo, Feb. 1, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Mohamed Mostafa-NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Posted inNews

Palestinian Authority resumes ties with Israeli government

by Ron Kampeas and JTA November 19, 2020
Supporters of Donald Trump hold signs in Hebrew and English as the president speaks at the Republican Jewish Coalition's annual leadership meeting in Las Vegas, April 6, 2019. (JTA/Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inLetters

Dershowitz was right; slavery reparations are misguided; Orthodox Jews wrong on Trump; etc.

by J. Readers February 21, 2020
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, left, and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas arrive for a news conference in New York on President Donald Trump's Israeli-Palestinian peace plan, Feb. 11, 2020. (JTA/Bryan R. Smith/Getty Images)
Posted inNews

An unpopular Palestinian president and a disgraced former Israeli prime minister make the case for peace

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA February 11, 2020February 11, 2020
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, center, attends the Arab League's foreign ministers meeting in Cairo, Feb. 1, 2020. (JTA/Mohamed Mostafa/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Posted inNews

Arab League unanimously rejects Trump peace plan

Marcy Oster by Marcy Oster and JTA February 3, 2020
President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speak during a joint statement at the White House, Jan. 28, 2020. (JTA/Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images)
Posted inNews

Who wins and who loses in Trump’s Middle East peace plan (and why fortunes can easily change)

by Ron Kampeas and JTA January 29, 2020
Grant Rumley, author of "The Last Palestinian: The Rise and Reign of Mahmoud Abbas," being interviewed by Moses Libitzky
Posted inNews

Abbas scholar examines career of ‘boring’ Palestinian leader in S.F. talk

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky February 27, 2018February 27, 2018
President Donald Trump and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, May 23, 2017. (Photo/JTA-Flash90)
Posted inNews

Are Hamas and Abbas headed toward reconciliation in Gaza?

by Ron Kampeas October 3, 2017March 19, 2018
the two men stand at podiums together.
Posted inIsrael, U.S., News

Trump and Abbas link renewed peace talks to countering Islamic State

by Ron Kampeas May 3, 2017March 19, 2018

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