Mahmoud-abbas | Tikun Olam-תקון עולם: Make the World a Better Place

Posts Tagged ‘mahmoud-abbas’

Palestinians Out of Peace Talks, NYT’s Bronner Gets It Wrong Once Again

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

No sooner does the NY Times Israel correspondent put finger to keyboard when he gets things wrong yet again. Last night, I wrote that Sheera Frenkel reported in the Times of London that Mahmoud Abbas attended an emergency meeting of the Arab League which threatened the end of the U.S. brokered proximity peace talks because of Israel’s ham-handed announcement of the construction of 1,600 new housing units in Ramat Shlomo, beyond the Green Line. Yet writing today, Bronner reports:

Both the housing construction and the talks will likely go ahead…

Saeb Erekat, said by telephone on Thursday that the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, had asked Mr. Biden for help in stopping the housing project but made no threat about pulling out.

Here is what Haaretz reports as the actual Palestinian position:

Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said earlier Thursday that Palestinians would not begin indirect peace talks unless the Israeli government annuled the decision to build in East Jerusalem.

“We want to hear from [United States envoy George] Mitchell that Israel has canceled the decision to build housing units before we start the negotiations,” Erekat said.

His remarks follow comments by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who told Biden Wednesday that it was not enough for the Israeli decision to be condemned, it also had to be canceled.

So here you have Bronner claiming Saeb Erakat told him on Thursday that Abbas would not be pulling out and Haaretz reporting that Abbas told Biden on WEDNESDAY that he would pull out unless the decision was cancelled. Something’s gotta give and it looks like Bronner either misinterpreted what he heard (given his predilection to hearing and seeing things from the Israeli point of view) or simply misreported.

As I noted yesterday, a cosmetic compromise would involve the Israelis temporarily rescinding approval until a suitable interval after the talks were underway. This would allow the Palestinians to save face and the Israelis to do what they always intended to do. But of course, this IS merely cosmetic and does nothing to alleviate the underlying problem which is that any settlement building in East Jerusalem is simply impermissible if there is to ever be real peace.

It’s rather laughable that Bibi has made a show of hauling his Interior Minister in for a verbal tongue-lashing, all the while insisting that he, the prime minister, knew nothing about the impeding announcement. It’s like Capt. Renault in Casablanca telling Rick that he’ll bring in the “usual suspects” for questioning. It’s all a big show. Of course, Bibi knew of the units. Why wouldn’t he? Of course he did it to convey a message to Biden and Abbas that no Jew allows himself to get kicked around. On the contrary, the Israelis will be setting the agenda in the talks as in everything else. And you know what? He’s right. And he’ll continue to be right till someone has the guts to call him on it. No one does. Nothing changes. Until the next war which is inevitable.

For anyone who wishes to understand how little can be gained from negotiations given the current Israeli attitude, read this passage in which Bronner conveys Israel’s understanding of what these peace talks should achieve:

…The Israelis want them to serve as a procedural corridor leading to direct negotiations…

I don’t know about you, but when I read those italicized words my heart just skipped a beat with excitement and I saw peace just around the corner. What the hell does it mean anyway, “procedural corridor?” I understand that Israel wants direct talks with the Palestinians rather than proximity talks. That’s why they seek something called a procedural corridor. But the entire point is that direct talks have failed in the past with a more moderate Israeli government than this one. So the Palestinians see no reason to agree to direct talks when there is seemingly less to talk about than even there was before.

Bibi is prepared to put even less on the table than Olmert. So the Palestinians say: why talk? What is there to gain? From Bibi’s vantage, he is willing to engage in direct talks that lead to Palestinians accepting his diktat of a settlement. And if they refuse, he can always point to them as the reason and blame them. For the Palestinians, it’s a trap. And though Abbas is little more than a lackey, even he knows not to step into that one.

Palestinians pull out of talks after Israeli settlement announcement (newstatesman.com)

Tags: 1600 housing units ramat shlomo, Arab League, east-jerusalem, illegal settlements, mahmoud-abbas, palestinians withdraw from peace talks, Saeb Erekat
Posted in Mideast Peace, Politics & Society | 3 Comments »

Abbas and Arab League On Verge of Pulling Plug on Peace Talks

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

Ramat Shlomo, site of proposed 1,600 new housing units (David Silverman/Getty)

Thanks to the Netanyahu government’s finger-in-the-eye announcement of 1,600 new housing units to be built in occupied East Jerusalem, Mahmoud Abbas told a hastily convened emergency meeting of the Arab League in Cairo that he was prepared to ditch the Israeli-Palestinian “proximity” peace talks even before they begin. Sheera Frenkel writes in the Times of London:

Fresh attempts to revive peace talks in the Middle East were on the verge of collapse last night as the Palestinians threatened to pull out before the negotiations began.

At an emergency meeting of the Arab League in Cairo Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian President, announced that he would boycott the US-mediated talks because of Israel’s refusal to halt construction on the occupied territories.

Frankly, I don’t even know why Joe Biden didn’t turn right around and come home after he learned this news. What else do you have to talk to talk about when your own client state gives you the finger like that? Frenkel also notes that the U.S. didn’t even tell Israel to cancel the construction. It merely denounced it. While Biden’s statement was unusually blunt, it was more of the same. There have been U.S. condemnations of such announcements going back decades. They build, we condemn. They act, we talk. If just once we ACTED, instead of talked the Israelis’ jaw would drop in disbelief.

It appears, with this president, at least at this time, there’s almost no likelihood of any such revolutionary changes in the offing regarding our relationship with Israel. Just more of the same. Bibi and the lobby have won temporarily. But what they don’t realize is that events will not allow them to enjoy this victory. There will be another war. It may be in Gaza or Lebanon or Teheran. And whatever advantage Israel enjoys will slowly erode. Time, despite the Israeli right’s belief, is not on Israel’s side in this.

If Abbas, not known for this, has any balls perhaps he will call Israel’s bluff and stay home. That would call for some heavy-lifting from George Mitchell to get this locomotive back on track. He would have to pull a rabbit out of his hat. Perhaps he will get Bibi to delay the new construction for a time until after the talks begin. Abbas could save face and yet continue being little more than the puppet he is by returning to the table. It still would amount to very little. The only thing Israel could do to really change the tone and allow peace talks to begin and proceed is a full settlement freeze. And that’s not in the offing. So Abbas, Bibi and Obama will fiddle while the conflict burns.

And lest anyone linger under the misimpression that this 1,600 is it, Haaretz tells us of government plans to build a total of 50,000 new housing units in East Jerusalem. This ain’t goin’ away any time soon, folks. So if Obama & Co. think they can finesse this, they’ve got another thing coming.

Palestinians snub peace talks because of Israeli homes expansion (guardian.co.uk)

Tags: 1600 new housing units, Arab League, east-jerusalem, Joe Biden, mahmoud-abbas, settlement freeze
Posted in Mideast Peace, Politics & Society | 8 Comments »

Bibi, Chutzpah Award-Winner, Warns Abbas: ‘Stop Wasting Time’

Saturday, January 23rd, 2010

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday called on the Palestinian Authority to “stop wasting time talking about how to enter the peace process,” following a failed meeting between the U.S. Mideast envoy and the Palestinian Authority president regarding a restart of peace talks.

–Haaretz

Wasting time? Who’s been wasting time since 1967? Who’s had numerous opportunties to negotiate an end to this conflict but has stalled at every juncture? Who to this day ignores viable peace initiatives like the Saudi Plan or the Geneva Initiative?

Have the Palestinians made their share of missteps? Certainly. But for this guy to get up there and act as if he’s bent out of shape because the Palestinians are wasting precious time instead of entering negotiations is the height of audacity–and it ain’t the audacity of hope either.

The audacity continues in this self-serving statement:

“The Palestinian Authority are the ones that are preventing the re-launch of the peace process with their preconditions that they have never asked before from any previous Israeli government,” the statement said. “The Prime Minister calls on the Palestinian Authority to sit at the negotiating table and discuss ways to promote security, peace, and prosperity for the two people.”

Abbas’ “condition” is a real settlement freeze. Is Bibi saying this was never a demand of the PA? No, because it has always been one. Is he saying it has never been a precondition of previous negotiations? Perhaps. But look at the wasted year Abbas spent negotiating with Olmert when he offered no preconditions. What did he get out of it? A warmed over Clinton parameters offer with no provision for resolving Jerusalem or the Right of Return. Maybe Abbas got wise and realized when you demand nothing from the Israelis you get nothing.

Anyway, Bibi, stop grandstanding. It only makes you look like the emperor with no clothes, and the sight ain’t pretty.

Envoy Fails to Lure Abbas Back to Talks (online.wsj.com)

Tags: Benjamin Netanyahu, bibi says pa wasting time, ehud-olmert, mahmoud-abbas, Palestinian National Authority
Posted in Mideast Peace | 1 Comment »

Israel to PA: Rescind Appeal to Criminal Court or Else

Monday, September 28th, 2009

If you’re old enough you’ll remember Yaakov Smirnoff, a Russian Jewish comic who emigrated to the U.S., and his tongue-in-cheek tagline: “America, what a country!” I feel the same way about the Only Democracy in the Middle East™ defended by the Most Moral Army in the World (it’s true–Alan Dershowitz and Ehud Barak told me so).

Except Israel appears to have a little problem that’s driving that most moral army slightly bonkers. The PA has approved an appeal to the International Criminal Court regarding possible Israeli war crimes during Operation Drop Dead (Cast Lead). Simply not cricket, says chief of staff Gabi Ashkenazi. You Fatahniks wanted us to go into Gaza and teach Hamas a lesson. Now you turn on us? Et tu, Abu Mazen!

Tensions are mounting between Israel and the Palestinian Authority following Ramallah’s call on the International Court at The Hague to examine claims of “war crimes” that the IDF allegedly committed during Operation Cast Lead…The issue is already weighing…on the relations between the leadership of Israel’s defense and security establishment with their counterparts in the West Bank, and is part of a growing list of Israeli complaints about the behavior of PA officials.

Meanwhile, Israel has warned the Palestinian Authority that it would condition permission for a second cellular telephone provider to operate in the West Bank – an economic issue of critical importance to the PA leadership – on the Palestinians withdrawing their request at the International Court.

I find it astonishing though not surprising that Israel would mix apples and oranges and attempt to use economic blackmail in order to block Israeli moral culpability for its crimes in Gaza. Also, the notion that Israel has a legitimate “complaint” against the PA because it is standing up for Palestinian human rights takes quite a bit of chutzpah on the former’s part.

But the real money quote in this Haaretz story is this one which lays bare the true nature of Israel as a national security state in which all other issues play second fiddle (if that):

…The chief of staff conditioned his approval of a second cellular provider to the Palestinians’ withdrawing their appeal to the court.

“The PA has reached the point where it has to decide whether it is working with us or against us,” senior figures in the defense establishment have said.

Yes, in Israel the chief of the armed forces runs the nation’s telecom policy (when it comes to the Palestinians). And he can use whatever excuse he wishes to draw his troops out from under the shadow of an ICC war crimes charge.

If the following portion of the this report is accurate, then I also find this passage instructive in terms of how seriously Abbas takes the issue of Palestinian human rights (when it’s the human rights of Gazans who support his rival, Hamas). This is something of which Fatah should be ashamed if it is true:

At the PA it is being said, in response to the Israeli demands, that Abbas and Fayyad will water down their appeal to the ICJ, though they will refuse to promise that it will rescinded entirely.

That’s right, selling Palestinian rights for a mess of telecom porridge. This bloody mess reminds me of an abattoir rather than a conference table at which two nations negotiate their differences with respect. If it is an abattoir, I can’t tell you whether Israel or the PA are the butchers, perhaps both.

Tags: abu mazen, fayyad, human-rights, international-criminal-court, israeli war crimes in gaza, mahmoud-abbas, operation cast lead, palestinian-authority
Posted in Mideast Peace | 3 Comments »

Bush, Olmert and ‘West Bank First’: Like Dutch Boy With His Finger in Dyke

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

The quickness with which much of the world (except Qatar, Indonesia, South Africa, and Russia, who nixed a U.S. sponsored Security Council resolution pledging eternal love to Mahmoud Abbas) has lined up with the Sunshine Boys, Ehud and George, in supporting the new and improved West Bank First policy brings to mind the desperate passengers on the Titanic looking for any way to escape their fate. I can imagine water rushing in one way and a deck steward shouting: “I have an idea–follow me!” as he tears off in the opposite direction with a few hearty souls in hot pursuit, only to find another wall of water pushing forward from the other direction to overwhelm him.

In this spirit, I welcome Aluf Benn’s expose of the true disaster that the Hamas coup poses for Israeli and U.S. policy towards the Palestinians and in the Mideast in general. Benn doesn’t prettify the situation as Olmert, Bush and Rice have been vainly trying to do. He tells it like is and for what it is:

As Hamas completed its violent takeover of Gaza last week, officials in the Israeli and American capitals realized they had a disaster on their hands. Both governments’ flawed policies toward the shattered Palestinian Authority had just been delivered a major blow…A militant Islamic group, whose record includes some of the worst terrorist attacks on Israelis, had just taken control of a small but contiguous territory of nearly 1.5 million inhabitants.

Strategically, the Gaza takeover marked a clear victory for Iran and its allies in the Arab world, and another setback for the pro-American, moderate Arab nations willing to compromise with Israel.

…From the Israeli perspective, less than a year after the Israeli Defense Forces failed to defeat Hezbollah and its allies in Lebanon, the Hamas takeover in Gaza is a disaster. And for the Bush administration, preoccupied with the quagmire in Iraq, Gaza marks another failure in the Middle East. The White House forced Israel to allow Hamas’ participation in last year’s election, thus legitimizing Hamas’ political role, but the strategy backfired with Hamas’ decisive victory. Faced with the disappointing outcome, U.S. and Israeli officials sought to “isolate the extremists and strengthen the moderates” through a diplomatic and economic boycott of Hamas, and by pledging further support for Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas…But…despite European support for this policy, Hamas withstood all pressure to recognize Israel’s right to exist, renounce terror and abide by past Israeli-Palestinian agreements. At the same time, Israel’s willingness to help Abbas was at best half-hearted. It never went beyond token moves and empty gestures, usually citing security concerns, domestic political problems or Abbas’ weakness.

U.S. and Israeli leaders scrambled to spin the new reality in Gaza favorably. Instead of mourning Abbas’ clear defeat, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert spoke of “a new opportunity,” as if a good thing had happened.

Benn continues by noting the utter hypocrisy of the new pledges of undying admiration for Abbas from Bush and Olmert, who only days ago were bemoaning the former’s utter ineffectiveness as a leader or someone who could rein in Palestinian violence. The Salon contributor notes that both leaders have little choice but to hitch their wagon to this drey horse:

Their doubts and disappointment notwithstanding, both Bush and Olmert have an interest in casting Abbas and the situation in Gaza in a positive light. Olmert, in particular, is trying to recover from his unpopularity at home. His trip to Washington has been part of a comeback effort, following the devastating report of a Commission of Inquiry over his decision to launch the war in Lebanon last year and his conduct of it.

And a Bush suffering from a war rapidly going south in Iraq needs to present some alternate vision of the Hamas disaster so Democrats won’t be able to start calling the situation in Gaza, Iraq II (but with an Israeli, instead of U.S. occupation). Remember the old “Who lost China?” accusation levelled against the Democrats after the 1949 Communist Revolution? What about “Who lost Gaza?” Bush has to fear those sorts of questions being raised about his Mideast leadership.

Tags: aluf-benn, failed-u.s.-policy-toward-palestinians, hamas-fatah-civil-war, mahmoud-abbas, Spinning-the-disaster-in-Gaza, west-bank-first
Posted in Mideast Peace, Politics & Society | 18 Comments »

Hardline Pro-Israel Representatives Join Lowey in Stopping U.S. Aid to Abbas

Tuesday, March 6th, 2007

Nita Lowey must’ve needed some cover when she put a hold on an $86 million appropriation approved by Congress at the behest of the Bush Administration. The funds were meant to bolster Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas. But after Abbas threw sand in Bush and Israel’s face (the hardliners’ view, not mine) by banding together with Fatah to create a unity government, Lowey decided she had to put a stop to the $86 million lest it look like Congress approved of the Mecca shenanigans.

Lowey got some flack for what she did and must’ve been feeling a little lonely. So she got some of her other AIPAC Congressional flunkies to join her in placing the hold. Now she’s in the august company of pro-Israel ideologues like Ileana Ros Lehtinen, Tom Lantos, Gary Ackerman, and Mike Pence. It’s really shameful. They’ll swear on a stack of Bibles they didn’t coordinate anything with AIPAC. And even if this is so, they didn’t need to. As one of my journalist informants for an earlier post I wrote on Lowey’s hold wrote–Lowey knows so well what AIPAC would want her to do she doesn’t even have to ask. She does it as a favor to them because she knows they’ll approve. That’s how well the pro-Israel lobby has them housetrained.

I know the bitternness in my voice and my rhetoric might be confused for someone far more hostile to Israel than I actually am. But this type of shallow, jingoistic pandering has got to stop. It’s grandstanding in the guise of policymaking. It makes Congress look like fools (except in the eyes of AIPAC). By the way, you don’t think it’s any coincidence that Lowey is among the top five House members in donations from pro-Israel PACs, do you?

Tags: aipac-dominance-of-congress, gary-ackerman, Ileana-Ros-Lehtinen, mahmoud-abbas, nita-lowey-hold-on-$86-million-palestinian-appropriatio, tom-lantos
Posted in Mideast Peace, Politics & Society | No Comments »

Hamas and Fatah Reach Deal Over Prisoner’s Peace Plan

Sunday, June 25th, 2006

Haaretz reports a deal between Hamas and Fatah, whereby the former would for the first time accept the basic terms of the Prisoner’s Document which implies recognition of Israel and a halt to resistance against the Occupation within the Green Line. Among other things, this would entail a cessation of Qassam attacks against southern Israel. Hamas would concede significant political territory to Fatah also in recognizing the PLO, led by Mahmoud Abbas as the sole entity to negotiate a peace deal with Israel. Hamas also agreed to recognize agreements entered into by Fatah that “serve the interests of the Palestinian people.” The question is whether Hamas views the agreement in question, the Oslo Accords, as serving the interests of the Palestinians. If not, then one could say we’re back to square one since Oslo provided for PLO recognition of Israel among other things.

There is one important element of the Prisoner’s Document left unresolved. It calls for a Hamas-Fatah national unity government. Fatah wants to establish one immediately; and Hamas calls for a “non-binding text” that would not compel it to form such a government.

Interesting that neither the NY Times nor the Washington Post has deemed this story worth covering. Though the Times does today carry a tragic and compelling story about the IDF murder of British documentary filmmakeer James Miller in Gaza in 2003. Yet another example of an IDF “investigation” which whitewashed IDF malfeasance and led to no justice for Miller’s killer, First Lt. Hib al-Heib. After his murder, Miller’s colleagues completed the documentary, Death in Gaza, which was shown on HBO and won several documentary film awards.

Haaretz also reports that Ehud Olmert, during his international dog and pony show to tout his realignment/convergence plan, believes that several European governments promised that they would not dismantle the international boycott of the Hamas-led PA if the Prisoner’s Document was ratified:

The main concern the document aroused in Israel was that European countries would view it as Palestinian acceptance, albeit indirect, of the Quartet’s demands to recognize Israel and past agreements with it, and use it as an excuse to talk to Hamas and resume aid to the Palestinian Authority.

On visits to Britain and France two weeks ago, Olmert was reassured this would not happen.

A senior political source ventured yesterday that the international community would not pressure Israel to accept the document as the basis for negotiations…

Personally, I believe Olmert is quite daft if he believes these governments would make such a promise. But I wasn’t there and so don’t know what was said to him.

Again, I believe that if Abbas and Fatah prevail upon Hamas to create a national unity government there would be very little standing in the way of international recognition of the PA and a relaxation of the financial stranglehold in which Palestine currently finds itself. Olmert, of course, will be screaming and kicking against such an outcome because it will mean pressure will increase exponentially on him to enter into final status negotiations with Abbas. And the former knows that during final status negotiations with the entire world watching, Israel will feel pressured to give up far more than he currently contemplates giving up under his unilateral plan. This is why he hates the Prisoner’s Document so. Actually, he calls it an irrelevance in studied nonchalance. But hardly anyone is fooled by a pose which even Madonna might admire.

Of course, one may question how serious Hamas is about ceasing resistance against the Israeli Occupation on a day when its military wing boasted of a coordinated attack on an IDF outpost along the Gaza-Egypt border (NOT within the Green Line) which killed two Israeli soldiers and three militants. UPDATE: Haaretz in this article said, until a few minutes ago that the Israeli outpost WAS on Israeli soil thus making the attack a violation of the terms of the Prisoner’s Document. But now the article says:

The gunmen attacked an IDF post near Kerem Shalom just outside the border fence with southern Gaza

Whether the outpost was inside or outside the Green Line, the Hamas military wing’s timing couldn’t have been more incendiary–perhaps indicating a wish to derail a softening of Hamas’ political positions vis a vis the Prisoner’s Document.

Tags: ehud-olmert, haaretz, hamas-accepts-prisoners-document, hamas-fatah-national-unity-government, mahmoud-abbas, plo
Posted in Mideast Peace | No Comments »

Guardian Reports Hamas Endorses Prisoner’s Peace Plan

Thursday, June 22nd, 2006

A virtual political war has been going on for weeks within Palestinian politics between Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah and Hamas over a peace plan proposed by Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. The plan calls for a two-state solution and tacit recognition of Israel along with Israeli withdrawal to 1967 borders. Hamas rejected the proposal out of hand and Abbas upped the ante by calling a national referendum on the plan which he knew in advance he would win.

Now, the Guardian reports that Abbas’ chief negotiator is declaring that Hamas has agreed to the prisoners’ plan:

Yasser Abed Rabbo, a member of the Palestine Liberation Organisation’s executive committee and a lead negotiator on the prisoners’ document, said Hamas had agreed to sections which call for a negotiated and final agreement with Israel to establish a Palestinian state on the territories occupied in 1967, including East Jerusalem.

“Hamas is prepared to accept those parts of the document because they think it is a way to get rid of a lot of its problems with the international community. That’s why it will accept all the document eventually,” he said.

However, there is a additional proposal to form a Palestinian unity government that would incorporate Fatah into the existing Hamas government. Over this there is still haggling:

Mr Abed Rabbo said he expected an agreement in the coming days, but that important differences still had to be settled, particularly over the document’s call for the formation of a national unity government.

He described that as “the major issue that will determine the fate of two nations for decades” because a unity administration, built around a common policy of negotiations with Israel, would be the only way to combat its plans to unilaterally impose its final borders and annex parts of the occupied territories…

Abdullah Abdullah, a Fatah MP and chairman of the parliamentary political committee, said other differences remained over the document, including Fatah’s insistence that the PLO continues to be recognised as the sole representative of the Palestinian people in negotiations with Israel, and that all existing agreements between the PLO and Israel be recognised.

Hard to say at this point whether this is a breakthrough. It may be telling that Hamas itself does not yet appear ready to acknowledge this news. But at least it hasn’t denied or denounced it. This may yet be the beginning of a breakthrough. The hard part will come after an agreement is reached between Fatah and Hamas. Then they will have to sell the deal to the world and convince it both that the two parties can co-exist peacefully with each other politically (not much evidence of that lately); and that Hamas has indeed accepted the provisions of the document calling for recognition of Israel, a two-state solution, and an end to terror within the Green Line. Not to mention that they will have to counter successfully the certain Israeli campaign against recognition and in favor of retaining the PA boycott. I believe the PA can succeed in both of these endeavors, but only with genuine cooperation between the currently warring parties to prove to the world that they’ve turned over a ‘new leaf.’

A number of progressive Israeli commentators express skepticism about the prisoners’ plan and whether it satisfies the international community’s minimum standards for recognition of Hamas as a legitimate government. They focus on the only-partial renunciation of violence (resistance within the Territories continues to be endorsed) and the demand for the Right of Return. Personally, I don’t share their gloom and doom about these provisions. I see the document as an initial negotiating position which will certainly be modified when the two parties get down to serious negotiations. Then the proposals can be reworked so they move closer to a compromise position that Israel might find more acceptable.

But after a week or more of universally gloomy news this appears at least to be a glimmer of hope. It is disappointing that neither Haaretz nor Ynetnews are reporting this story. And it goes without saying that the NY Times is also late to the party.

Tags: fatah, hamas-accepts-prisoner-peace-plan, mahmoud-abbas, palestinian-national-referendum, yasser-abed-rabbo
Posted in Mideast Peace | No Comments »