Mahmoud Abbas

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has said presidential and legislative elections scheduled for January will be postponed, confirming that he has accepted advice not to hold the vote. Abbas, speaking to...

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...Maher Ghneim in line to succeed Abbas The Obama administration and Netanyahu government are bending over backward to dissuade Mahmoud Abbas from going through with his decision to retire from public life both as chairman of the Palestinian...

In this article: Israel, West Bank, European Union, Washington, Binyamin Netanyahu, Ehud Barak, and Ramallah

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will accept the recommendation of independent election experts on Thursday to postpone the vote he had scheduled for January, senior officials said. The Central Election...

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...of peace talks with Israel, repeating his demand for a complete halt to West Bank settlement building before negotiations. Mahmoud Abbas also offered no clarity over his own political future by saying he did not want to talk again...

In this article: Israel, Hamas, Benjamin Netanyahu, United States, West Bank, Jerusalem, Rahm Emanuel, and Barack Obama

...for Barack Obama. On Wednesday Abbas used the fifth anniversary of the death of his predecessor, Yasser Arafat, to insist that he would not resume talks unless Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, backed down. Netanyahu has...

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...in settlement, not the "freeze" he initially spoke of. On Saturday in Jerusalem, Clinton agreed with Netanyahu that it was unprecedented for Abbas to shun talks due to settlements. A spokesman for Abbas, who faces intense domestic pressure...

In this article: Hillary Clinton, Benjamin Netanyahu, Barack Obama, Jerusalem, Israel, U.S., and British-ruled Palestine

...threat TEL AVIV, Israel (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flew to Washington on Sunday with the U.S. Middle East peace drive in crisis over a threat by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to stand down. Though...

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...to Pakistan. Obama held a joint meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Abbas in New York in September, hoping it would persuade them to return to negotiations that had broken off more than a year ago. In her report to...

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...peace deal. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu shakes hands with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in a tripartite meeting with US President Barack Obama in New York in September. In a column published Saturday...

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...of anonymity because the phone calls were private. </p><p>One way Clinton could break the impasse would be to wrest concessions from Israel, allowing Abbas to regain credibility. </p><p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,...

In this article: Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, U.S., Jerusalem, Mideast, and Washington