Tag Archives: Mahmoud Abbas

Forward breathlessly reports on Abbas-Trump meeting: “the two struck up a kind of “chemistry” that could lead to a peace breakthrough”

Posted on May 9, 2017 by ArchitectGuy

FORWARD Did Right Wingers Ruin Ron Lauder’s Dinner With Mahmoud Abbas? by Naomi Zeveloff May 9, 2017 Ron Lauder, cosmetics heir and president of the World Jewish Congress, prepped Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for his meeting with President Trump last … Continue reading →

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“There are two core reasons why peace in the Middle East depends on a great deal more than the Palestinian-Israeli dispute. The first is the 14-century old Shia-Sunni fissure” [VIDEO]

Posted on May 8, 2017 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL Embarking on a Fool’s Errand by Sarah Stern May 8, 2017 …Once again, we witnessed an American president, seated together with a Palestinian leader, making lofty, encouraging statements about the possibility of achieving a real peace between … Continue reading →

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“By embracing the PLO, Trump is strengthening Iran and its supporters at the expense of Israel, the US-aligned Sunni states and the US itself”

Posted on May 5, 2017 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST Trump’s tragic mistake by Caroline Glick May 4, 2017 By all accounts, US President Donald Trump is a friend of the Jewish state. It is due to Trump’s heartfelt support for Israel and the US-Israel alliance that his … Continue reading →

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Baehr: “A meeting between #Trump and #Abbas, with talk of peace and solutions to long-standing conflicts will for a few minutes warm the hearts of all the conventional foreign policy establishment thinkers in Washington”

Posted on March 14, 2017 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL HAYOM Trump the peace processor by Richard Baehr March 14, 2017 …Trump could be looking beyond Abbas, who is now serving a second term beyond the one to which he was elected, and instead could be raising the profiles … Continue reading →

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Palestinians lay out (at least) four conditions for peace

Posted on March 14, 2017 by ArchitectGuy

ASHARQ AL-AWSAT Palestinian Sources: 4 Conditions to Return to Peace Negotiations by Kifah Ziboun and Nazir Majli March 14, 2017 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is expected to meet on Tuesday with US President Donald Trump’s envoy to the Middle East, … Continue reading →

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“Friday’s first presidential phone call, in which the PA chief was invited to the White House, has the Palestinians extremely upbeat”

Posted on March 11, 2017 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL Ever unpredictable, Trump throws Mahmoud Abbas a lifeline by Avi Issacharoff March 11, 2017 US President Donald Trump’s phone conversation Friday with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, during which the PA chief was invited to visit to … Continue reading →

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“In fact, according to Herzog, Israel began to realize that Kerry was negotiating mainly with and against Israel, while conducting substantially no such parallel process with Abbas”

Posted on March 9, 2017 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL HAYOM Kerry’s knee-capping of Israel by David Weinberg March 9, 2017 Because the news is elsewhere, few have bothered to pay attention to the insider expose on the “Kerry peace process” published in The American Interest late last month … Continue reading →

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“Referring to Abbas’s obsession with Arab Idol, other Palestinians launched a hashtag on Twitter: #AbbasFollowUsToo. The goal of the campaign is to express Palestinians’ disappointment with their leaders’ carelessness and disdain”

Posted on March 6, 2017 by ArchitectGuy

GATESTONE Palestinians: Arab Idol or Arab Apartheid? by Khaled Abu Toameh March 6, 2017 …It was not Abbas’s meeting with the Arab Idol contestants that sparked a wave of denunciations from Palestinians. Rather, it was his failure to set foot … Continue reading →

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Facebook shuts down Fatah’s page, later reinstated with apologies

Posted on March 2, 2017 by ArchitectGuy

PALESTINIAN MEDIA WATCH Facebook enables Fatah terror promotion by reopening their terror promoting page by Itamar Marcus March 2, 2017 Three days ago, Facebook shut down Fatah’s terror promoting account. The Palestinian Authority protested the closure as evidence of unfair … Continue reading →

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A regional peace conference: “What the recent Washington-Israeli notion misses is that Palestinians simply do not trust their Arab brothers”

Posted on February 27, 2017 by ArchitectGuy

GATESTONE Palestinians: Why a “Regional Peace Process” Will Fail by Khaled Abu Toameh February 27, 2017 Here is a fundamental misapprehension: Arab countries can help achieve peace in the Middle East by persuading, or rather pressuring, the Palestinians to make … Continue reading →

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