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• Israel's Trade─For the Gilad Shalit Video─Wasn't Worth It

  …be released without posing an immediate security threat. Last fall, in an effort to bolster the teetering government of Mahmoud Abbas , Prime Minister Ehud Olmert liberated 90 prisoners, none of whom, Olmert swore, had previously engaged in terrorism …

  By Adam B. Kushner

  10/02/2009Blogs
• Palestine’s New Perspective

  …elections.) It was only in the midst of a national crisis, after the Hamas takeover of Gaza in June 2007, that President Mahmoud Abbas elevated him to power in the West Bank by emergency fiat. "There was no way it was going to be democratic," Fayyad explained …

  By Kevin Peraino

  09/04/2009International
• Fatah Squabbles Could Doom Mideast Peace

  …itself--one that could set Mideast peace back by decades. Ever since Yasir Arafat's death in 2004, P.A. president Mahmoud Abbas has struggled, and failed, to maintain Palestinian unity. His weakness has led some Fatah leaders based abroad …

  By Newsweek

  08/06/2009Blogs
• Civil Sore

  …Hamas won the parliamentary election in 2006 and seized control of Gaza in 2007. But Fatah, the party of Yasir Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas , the Palestinian Authority president, still controls the West Bank. Their squabbles—over control of fiefdoms like patronage …

  07/23/2009International
• Olmert’s Lament

  …s term he tried one last maneuver in an effort to secure a legacy. Olmert told me he met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in September 2008 and unfurled a map of Israel and the Palestinian territories. He says he offered Abbas 93 …

  By Kevin Peraino

  06/13/2009International

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