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Tag Archives: Mahmoud Abbas
If you keep rejecting a deal it probably means …
The New York Times features an analysis, Mideast expert fear peace talks are too ambitious. The headline is probably correct as Abbas has no real standing to make any deal. But this paragraph struck me: But those urging a more … Continue reading
“I … am in the position to grant nothing”
Via Daily Alert blog. An article in the UAE’s the National Abbas is a man in exile, even among his own All Palestinian political factions, bar one, have denounced the direct talks, some in harsher language than others. Only Fatah, … Continue reading
… or forever hold your peace
In The Palestinian Authority Struggles to Sabotage Any Chance for Peace, Barry Rubin observes: And here, too, is the PA openly thwarting President Barack Obama, who publicly bristles at the tiniest Israeli disagreement, yet seems to accept this disrespect without … Continue reading
The odd “peace logic” of the New York Times
Yesterday’s meeting between Israeli PM Netanyahu and President Obama did not impress the editors of the New York Times. In Mr. Netanyahu at the White House, they write: President Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel satisfied their short-term … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Israel Derangement Syndrome, Media Bias
Tagged Benjamin Netanyahu, Mahmoud Abbas, New York Times
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The Abbas charm offensive
Mahmoud Abbas has been very talkative lately. He talked to American Jewish groups. He’s talking to the Israeli media. It’s a pretty good PR offensive. He seems eminently reasonable. Except it’s all a facade. Abbas, in the briefing with Israeli … Continue reading
Mr. Abbas goes to Washington
If you recall, when chief of staff Rahm Emanuel was in Israel to celebrate his son’s Bar Mitzvah, he invited Prime Minister Netanyahu to Washington to meet the President. Then the IDF encountered a group of militants on the Mavi … Continue reading
Lies my Fatah told me
The headline reads Abbas: Second intifada was one of our worst mistakes The first paragraph reads: “The second intifada was one of our worst mistakes,” Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told an Egyptian television station on Wednesday. “[Late Palestinian leader Yasser] … Continue reading
Abbas is negotiating with a maxed out credit card
Evelyn Gordon speculates at the end of The Purpose of Proximity Talks: Why is the proximity-talks charade necessary? Because currently, Obama lacks both public and congressional support for moving beyond mere verbal hostility. If he didn’t realize this before, the … Continue reading
The Post on proximity talks
The Washington Post has a pretty good editorial on the upcoming proximity talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, Israelis and Palestinians are ready to begin talking — sort of: INDIRECT TALKS between Israelis and Palestinians appear finally set to … Continue reading
Wednesday snarks
But Islam is a religion of peace: Jihad Jane, a blonde-haired, blue-eyed American woman who converted to Islam, was arrested for plotting to murder a Swedish cartoonist and enlisting terrorists to the cause. But “jihad” means inner struggle, so that … Continue reading
Posted in Israeli Double Standard Time, News Briefs, The One
Tagged Israel, Joe Biden, Mahmoud Abbas
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Instransigence: a single use word
The Washington Post reports: Mitchell, who in January boasted that a peace deal could be done within two years, said he hoped the indirect talks would lead to direct negotiations as soon as possible and encouraged the parties “to refrain … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Israeli Double Standard Time
Tagged Binyamin Netanyahu, Mahmoud Abbas, washington post
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A Palestinian state: when?
As I noted yesterday, Barry Rubin published a timely essay recalling how the Palestinian blew a chance to prevent Israel from ever existing – 70 years ago. I didn’t think it required any further comment. But then I read something, … Continue reading
Passive aggressive Abbas
In a perfectly bewildering column Jim Hoagland blames President Obama and Judge Goldstone for undermining Mahmoud Abbas. In It’s up to Netanyahu he writes: No one could accuse President Obama or Judge Richard Goldstone of South Africa of harboring ill … Continue reading
An unworthy hack
The New York Times had a symposium on Mahmoud Abbas’s resignation. Three of the participants, Rashid Khalidi, Fawaz Gerges, and Daoud Kuttab took the approach that Abbas had his authority undermined by the Americans and has no partner among Israelis … Continue reading
Why Abbas is failing
The Washington Post describes how Mahmoud Abbas has lost popularity. First there was the failure to achieve a cost free advantage. Obama named Mitchell as his peace envoy just one day after taking office in an effort to demonstrate to … Continue reading
Stall. Wait for pressure. Get concessions. Add some violence. Repeat.
Noah Pollak describes Mahmoud Abbas’s negotiating strategy as described in an interview with Jackson Diehl, as a “Princess Bride strategy.” Diehl seems to get it too as he writes: Abbas and his team fully expect that Netanyahu will never agree … Continue reading
Bolstering the unelected kleptocrat
The Washington Post emphasizes what a slender reed the United States is depending on as a key to peace, Abbas’s credibility problem. Unfortunately the article skims over various reasons why Abbas shouldn’t have any credibility to Israel. Abbas, 74, a … Continue reading
What’s a Jewish state got to with it?
Isabel Kershner of the NY Times reports that “moderate” Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas refuses to acknowledge Israel as a Jewish state. The Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas, on Monday dismissed a demand by Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to recognize … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Israeli Double Standard Time, palestinian politics
Tagged Mahmoud Abbas
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Saving Palestinian advertising dollars
So Mahmoud Abbas and co. are appealing to the Israeli people directly. Along Route 2, which follows the Mediterranean coastline, motorists are seeing an unusual sight: a Palestinian flag next to an Israeli one. Below the image appearing on billboards … Continue reading
Names will never hurt me – the double standard
Recently a number of bloggers got bent out of shape by comments made by incoming Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel’s father, “Obviously, he’ll influence the president to be pro-Israel. Why wouldn’t he? What is he, an Arab? He’s not going … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-Semitism, Israel, Media Bias, palestinian politics
Tagged Mahmoud Abbas, Rahm Emanuel, Salam Fayyad
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