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...Abbas has been the key Palestinian interlocutor for the international community since succeeding the late Yasser Arafat in 2004....
...Sensing the way things were going, PLO leader Yasser Arafat agreed to acknowledge the right of Israel to exist....
...Muscat has previously hosted Israeli prime ministers in the wake of the Oslo Accords signed by Yitzak Rabin and Yasser Arafat....
...Abbas, in a suit....
...By the time she was 12, Ahed’s activism had attracted the attention of the media, winning praise from Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas and Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan....
...In August he closed a non-governmental organisation run by Yasser Abed Rabbo, a rival he had sacked as PLO secretary-general the previous month....
...Mr Dahlan’s name is popping up at “Dahlanist” events, like the Gaza City rally; another December rally meant to mark the 10th anniversary of Yasser Arafat’s death was cancelled by Fatah because it feared...
...During one conversation with Mr Abbas around that time he spoke emotionally about the failures of the Arab uprisings. “He was very sad and angry,” says Mr Abbas....
...The idea of creating a Palestinian vice-presidency was first broached during the term of Yasser Arafat, the founding leader of the Palestine Liberation Organisation, who was succeeded by Mr Abbas in 2005...
...Yasser Abed Rabbo told Agence France-Presse: “Settlement expansion goes against the US administration’s pledges and threatens to cause the negotiations’ collapse.”...
...(The Palestinians were part of a joint delegation with Jordan and not represented by leader Yasser Arafat.)...
...Top Fatah officials came from the West Bank to attend the event, at which Mr Abbas predicted the group’s five-year-old split with Hamas would end....
...When Yasser Arafat arrived in the Gaza Strip in 1994 after almost three decades of political exile, the Palestinian leader received a spectacular welcome....
...A team of international forensic experts on Tuesday opened the grave of Yasser Arafat and exhumed the body of the former Palestinian leader, to investigate claims that he may have been poisoned with polonium...
...council and head of the Palestinian National Initiative, a political party, accused the Americans of “unequal treatment of Palestinians” because Mr Obama would not be visiting the grave in Ramallah of Yasser...
...Mahmoud Abbas will stand before the UN on Friday to deliver one of the most important speeches of his political life....
...Mr Abbas, who is married and has two surviving sons, Tareq and Yasser (a third died of a heart attack), says he has no desire to stay on in his posts, and most people are inclined to believe him....
...Mahmoud Abbas, successor to the late Yassir Arafat as Palestinian president, has eschewed violence and staked everything on negotiations....
...Some banners featured photographs of former leaders of the two movements together, Yasser Arafat of Fatah and Sheikh Ahmed Yassin of Hamas....
...Yasser Abed Rabbo, a Palestinian negotiator, said on Saturday: “The resumption of talks requires tangible steps, the first of them a freeze on settlements....
...The mainstream Palestinian leaders, President Mahmoud Abbas and Salam Fayyad, the prime minister, and the Quartet made up of the US, the European Union, the UN and Russia, talk of a negotiated resolution...
...Since taking the helm of the Palestinian Authority after the 2004 death of Yasser Arafat, he has often looked uncomfortable in the job and has frequently threatened to resign....
...But Mr Abbas declined to elaborate on his announcement last week that he would not seek re-election as president in a vote planned for January....
...Arafat’s successor, Mahmoud Abbas, refused concessions that were even more generous....
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