1. Profile: Mahmoud Abbas
(News/SReports)

...s, Mahmoud Abbas is a former school teacher who has led Palestine during the hardest of times. Also known as Abu Mazen, Abbas became president of the PA in 2005 following the death of Yasser Arafat in...

2. Abbas sets Palestinian poll date
(News/Arab)

... Strip, despite more than a year of negotiations. "This is an illegal and unconstitutional step because Abu Mazen's [Abbas's] tenure is over and he has no right to issue any decree concerning thi...

3. The Slippery Slope
(Opinions/Features)

...ld to organize a boycott of Israel. Now he is to blame also for the existential danger facing Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen). WHEN THE Goldstone report was submitted to the UN Human Rights Council, our gov...

4. Ex-Carter Official: Israel Ignored Hamas Offer Before Attack
(Opinions/Daily)

...e was a public opinion poll that came out from Khalil Shikaki that indicated that if there were an election, Abu Mazen, the president of the Palestinian Authority, would win by twelve to fourteen poin...

5. Avnery letter to Carter
(Editor/Letters)

...power; on the contrary, they resulted in increasing its popular support and severely weakening Mahmud Abbas (Abu Mazen) who is increasingly perceived as a collaborator, unable to bring his people any ...

6. The Turbulent Winds of the Annapolis Conference
(Opinions/Society)

...egative shift in Israel’s attitude towards wanting peace after Rabin’s assassination. Nevertheless, he feels Abu Mazen wants peace and Annapolis, even if delayed, must still happen.” The two sides can...

7. A Warning to Tony Blair
(Opinions/Features)

...n Northern Ireland. All that is happening now is theater. Olmert pretends that he really wants to "save Abu Mazen", while doing the opposite. At Bush's request, he allowed the transfer of a ...

8. While the mouth speaks peace
(Editor/Letters)

...government of the two Ehuds, the mouth of Ehud Olmert spews peace cliches in highly-publicized meetings with Abu Mazen, but the hands of Ehud Barak conduct ceaseless war and oppression: night raids an...

9. Not yet enough hell in Gaza?
(Editor/Letters)

...his policy of force and oppression is also emptying of content the negotiations supposedly taking place with Abu Mazen and the leadership he heads, presenting him and his followers as accomplices in t...

10. JENIN~~ THE ALMOST FORGOTTEN SCENE OF A MASSACRE
(Mamblog/Default Category)

... here are confused," Zbeidi's uncle, Jamal, says. "To go with [Palestinian Authority Chairman] Abu Mazen is to go with America, and to go with Hamas is to go with religion. Both are bad....