Palestinian leader tells Obama that bid for UN recognition would benefit both...
Mahmoud Abbas writes to US president that upgrading PA’s status to nonmember state will facilitate negotiations with Israel
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Hamas PM says PA president’s statement that he does not have the right to live in Safed, where he was born, is ‘extremely dangerous’
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Hamas calls for mass rally in Gaza Saturday evening to protest PA leader’s moderate remarks in Israel TV interview
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Abbas said Thursday he had no territorial claims to pre-1967 Israel and no ‘right’ to return to live in Safed; thousands protest his remarks in Gaza
View ArticleAbbas: I wasn’t giving up right of return; I was just speaking personally
Amid furor over his remark to Israel’s Channel 2 that he has no ‘right’ to live in Safed, PA president clarifies his position
View ArticleFatah official praises Hamas ‘moderates’
Going against his party’s line, Jibril Rajoub admits that Egyptian media exaggerates Hamas’s role in Sinai unrest
View ArticleAbbas proposed Jerusalem united under supreme council, adviser says
Nimer Hammad tells Palestinian radio that PA chief agreed to joint municipality after Israeli withdrawal from East Jerusalem
View ArticlePalestinians seize upon Pope’s ‘Palestine’ overtures
PA delighted by Francis’s pause at the security barrier, references to ‘State of Palestine’; Monday, though, will be Israel Day
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