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...He believed in reaching out to the Israelis, but also believed there was a time and place for that,” said Diana Buttu, a Palestinian lawyer who previously worked with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas....
...Hamas normally has the support of about a third of the total Palestinian population, but that tends to leap by 10-15 per cent during Hamas operations or Israeli bombings of Gaza, said Khalil Shikaki, director...
...Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas was not on the ballot when two of the biggest universities in the occupied West Bank held elections to their student councils last month....
...His threats lack credibility, and as far as the public’s concerned, he’s not up to the challenge,” says Khalil Shikaki, the centre’s director. “But the public has no alternative.”...
...Fati Alshaikh Khalil, the official responsible for power in Gaza, told the Financial Times: “Everyone knows this is about politics.”...
...Support for two states was lowest and backing for a one-state strongest among 18 to 22-year-olds, the age of most of the Birzeit students and a cohort Khalil Shikaki, a pollster and one of the survey’s organisers...
...An Israeli government minister has warned that the Palestinian Authority is close to collapse, as President Mahmoud Abbas approaches his 81st birthday with no apparent plan to call new elections or to move...
...“The disappointment with governance and service delivery is pushing young people to focus on civil and political rights,” says Khalil Shikaki, the centre’s director....
...“[There’s] a perception that the world is preoccupied with other things,” said Khalil Shikaki, director of the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey research, a polling group based in Ramallah....
...“If they go towards violence, they will lose on all levels,” said Khalil Anani, a lecturer at Johns Hopkins University....
...Early one December morning posters went up on the walls outside Gaza City’s al-Azhar University insulting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas....
...At the top, Mahmoud Jundiya, standing on a child’s nursery mattress, is looking stoically at the spot where his family’s four-storey house used to be....
...The Palestine Liberation Organisation, headed by Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas, signed a unity pact on Wednesday with Hamas, the Islamist resistance movement that controls Gaza, officials...
...As US-sponsored peace talks with Israel proceed, Palestinians are broaching the sensitive topic of who will succeed Mahmoud Abbas, their ageing president, who has been embarrassed by a string of leaks from...
...textile factories have closed in recent months in Shubra el Kheima, an industrial district of Cairo, and several hundred have closed in Mahala, a textile manufacturing centre in the Nile Delta, according to Mahmoud...
...Fujairah’s attraction has grown after threats from Iran under the just-concluded presidency of Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad to shut the Strait of Hormuz....
...Colonel Khalil Helali, a senior police commander, warned the bazaar merchants to open for business, or else face prosecution....
...Marcel Khalifé and Mahmoud Darwish Fall Of The Moon (Nagam)...
...However, Khalil Hayat-Moqaddam, a parliamentarian from Mahshahr, told local reporters last week that the oil ministry had not only failed to pay workers on time but “is trying to disrupt the strike through...
...Mr Shaheen says: “Mahmoud Dahlan will emerge weaker [from this conflict] but he will not leave the political scene. He will still be a strong man.”...
...Abdel-Meguid Mahmoud, the public prosecutor, did not respond to a request for an interview....
...Arguably, Israel achieved a similar result by assassinating PLO leader Khalil al-Wazir (Abu Jihad) in Tunis in 1988, removing a weighty restraint on Yassir Arafat....
...The first Anwar Khalil Baalousha knew of the tragedy that had struck his family was when the water tank in his house exploded over him as he slept....
...Khalil al-Namrooti, an economics professor at the Islamic University of Gaza, warned that this situation would only get worse....
...He rejected claims by Mahmoud Zahar, the foreign minister from Hamas, that he had no right to remove the government....
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