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More Video EFTA00714600 A French offer to jumpstart talks between Israel and the Palestinians might be acceptable to Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud 'Abbas. The Reuters news agency reported that 'Abbas told the agency that he told visiting French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe that the initiative,

been cancelled, Israel is taking no chances along any of its borders. "Naksa Day" marks the start of the 1967 war that resulted in Israel acquiring the West Bank, east Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights. In May, "Nakba Day," commemorating the creation of Israel in 1948 turned violent when protest

"drown in the waters of the Mediterranean." Palestinian Authority Head 'Abbas Willing to Visit Gaza for Reconciliation Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud 'Abbas is accepting an invitation from his Hamas counterpart to visit the Gaza Strip to break the impasse over reconciliation between the Fatah and

actions. Ismail Haniyyeh, who led Hamas' forced takeover of Gaza in 2007, issued the invitation on Tuesday after rallies were held in both Gaza and the West Bank by thousands of young Palestinians demanding the bifurcated governments act to restore ;YouTu ;`,Twit ;Facebo be ter ok I slogs Archives Lead

ry. This, in turn, will make it easier to gain international approval for tough economic sanctions. With so much legitimacy lost domestically after Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's controversial election in 2009, Khamenei has even more reason to worry about the impact that sanctions could have on the survival of

tah is moving slowly: the Hamas leaders here are likely to lose their jobs. The hospital supply crisis is a direct result of tensions with Fatah in the West Bank, which has kept the supplies from being shipped here. Efforts by fringe Islamist groups to challenge Hamas have had little effect. And it has been

the torture and killing of the man await sentencing. Abbas: We'll Move Ahead with Unity Government Despite Disagreements Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud 'Abbas said on Friday that despite the continued inability to resolve a number of outstanding issues between Fatah and llamas, the Palestinians will

g with Turkish Prime Minster Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the PA leader said "there is no turning back." Ending the bifurcation between Fatah in control of the West Bank and llamas in control of the Gaza Strip is seen by Palestinians as the major goal in preparation for statehood. A reconciliation agreement was annou

this week, three senior Hamas leaders — Ziad el-Zaza, the finance minister and deputy prime minister; Ghazi Hamad, who handles foreign affairs; and Mahmoud al- Zahar, a hard-liner — said they were taking a "wait and see" EFTA_R1_00441198 EFTA01964450 approach to Egypt, hoping that perhaps the tide co

EFTA01964448 It could serve to strengthen President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority and his more moderate Fatah faction that dominates the West Bank just as Washington-orchestrated peace talks get under way. It also adds another volatile element to the rapidly changing landscape across the regio

er the body and said, "I'll join you soon, God willing," recalled a cousin who spoke on the condition that he be identified only by his first name, Mahmoud. His wish to die fighting and become a martyr — and the honor it would bring in his community — was fulfilled Saturday morning at 7:30, though the

its militant ways. But instead of suffering from Israel's partial blockade, Hamas has exploited it. By shutting down Gaza's exports to Israel and the West Bank, the blockade has destroyed Gaza's independent business class, which might have been a source of opposition to Hamas. Instead, Hamas has created a

a couple of months since the inauguration President Hassan Rouhani, is how little seems to have changed since the latter years of the presidency of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who was perhaps the most destructive force in Iranian politics in a generation, reviled in the West for his anti- Semitic remarks and

erful show of citizen agency throughout the region has instead devolved into uncertainty, bringing chaos to the doorstep not just of Israel but of the West Bank and Jordan as well. Stuck in the eye of the storm, the Israeli-Palestinian-Jordanian triangle has weathered it in relative calm. Indeed, the crisis

my of neutral and universal human rights. It would be an uphill fight because the primary speaker invited to address the second Durban Conference was Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Holocaust-denying President of Iran. I worked with several genuine human rights organizations in an effort to shame the Human Right

omen, and de facto discrimination against Israeli Arabs. Since the early 1970s, I have been a vocal and persistent opponent of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza. And after the war in Lebanon, I protested the use of cluster bombs that, though lawful, unduly endanger the lives of civilians. I have neve

elite it looks incapable for now of taking its protest movement back out onto the streets. Mass protests against the 2009 re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad marked the worst unrest since the Islamic Revolution three decades earlier, but were quelled with lethal force by the state's security

eated efforts to "Judaize" the region, and in the so-called mixed towns within the Green Line. EFTA00584918 8 The popular struggle committees in the West Bank have had some success in stopping Israel's encroachments on their villages. Unfortunately, the UN bid has diverted attention from these civil resi