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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 529

Mahmoud Abbas

In this photo provided by Egypt's presidency media office, Arab leaders pose during the emergency Arab summit at Egypt's New Administrative Capital, just outside Cairo, March 4, 2025. (Egyptian Presidency Media Office via AP)
March 6, 2025, 7:26 pm
What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Egypt’s farcical plan for postwar Gaza
ToI’s senior analyst dissects the Arab leaders’ endorsement of a $53 billion Gaza plan that neither demilitarizes Hamas nor brings any security guarantees to Israel
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Haviv Rettig Gur
US President Donald Trump reaches to shake Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's hand before a meeting at the Palace Hotel during the 72nd United Nations General Assembly on September 20, 2017, in New York. (AFP Photo/ Brendan Smialowski)
March 5, 2025, 3:52 pm
Abbas confidant: If Trump advances Gaza ‘expulsion’ plan, PA will cut ties with US
Ahmad Majdalani says Ramallah wants to turn page with Washington after bitter first term, is maintaining contacts because it doesn’t see president’s proposal being implemented
By Jacob Magid
PLO Executive Committee member Ahmad Majdalani in his Ramallah office in 2024. (Courtesy)
March 4, 2025, 4:07 pm
Seeking funds abroad, Abbas ally touts prisoner payment reform that’s ‘unpopular’ at home
Tapped to head welfare fund replacing ‘pay-to-slay,’ Ahmad Majdalani says it’ll be strictly need-based, and should suffice for US and Israel to scrap ‘unjust’ sanctions on Ramallah
By Jacob Magid
PA President Mahmoud Abbas at the BRICS summit in Kazan on October 24, 2024. (Alexander Zemlianichenko/Pool/AFP)
February 28, 2025, 4:20 am
Feeling heat from Trump to ‘solve’ Gaza, Arab states losing patience with PA’s Abbas
Palestinian Authority president left out of Arab leadership summit in Riyadh, where Gaza was main agenda item; diplomat says regional leaders will abandon Abbas if backed into corner
By Jacob Magid
Mahmoud Habbash speaks during the 19th International Muslim Forum at the Moscow Central Mosque in Moscow, Russia on December 12, 2023. (Sefa Karacan / Anadolu)
February 26, 2025, 6:37 am
Top Abbas aide: Hamas must step aside, let Palestinian Authority govern Gaza
Mahmoud Habbash tells ToI that Palestinian people together with PA and Arab states have ability to coax terror group into giving up power after 17 years of ‘failed’ rule in Strip
By Jacob Magid
Former prime minister Ehud Olmert holds up the map he presented to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in 2008 for a two-state solution in a BBC documentary that aired in February, 2025. (Screencapture/ BBC)
February 24, 2025, 12:28 pm
Olmert reveals for first time map of Palestinian state he offered Abbas
Former PM shows documentary-makers diagram that inspired legend of Palestinian leader’s hastily sketched copy presented to officials in Ramallah in failed peace bid
By ToI Staff
US President Donald Trump, left, and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas pose for a photograph during a joint press conference at the presidential palace in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on May 23, 2017. (AFP/Mandel Ngan)
February 12, 2025, 10:38 pm
‘Big win for Trump’: US welcomes PA prisoner payment reform, which Israel dismissed
State Department spokesperson tells ToI decree signed by Abbas ‘appears to be positive step,’ Washington will monitor its implementation; EU envoy voices similar cautious optimism
By Jacob Magid
Palestinian prisoners are greeted as they exit a Red Cross bus after being released from Israeli prison, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, February 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
February 11, 2025, 7:36 pm
Architect of US law against PA ‘pay-to-slay’ skeptical of Ramallah effort to end it
Sander Gerber ‘cautiously optimistic,’ but says ‘ambiguous’ Abbas decree making welfare stipends contingent on economic need doesn’t address all concerns regarding terror support
By Jacob Magid
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas listens while then-US President Donald Trump makes a statement for the press before a meeting at the Palace Hotel during the 72nd United Nations General Assembly on September 20, 2017, in New York. (AFP/Brendan Smialowski/ File)
February 10, 2025, 10:27 pm
In major win for Trump, PA’s Abbas signs decree ending ‘pay-to-slay’ system
Reform will bring families of security prisoners and slain terrorists into same welfare system as other Palestinians, be based on economic need; move was largely finalized in Biden era
By Jacob Magid
Israeli security forces stand guard as buses transporting Palestinian prisoners being released as part of a hostage-ceasefire deal with the Hamas terror group leave the Ketziot prison in the Negev desert on January 25, 2025. (Gil Magen-Cohen/AFP)
January 29, 2025, 3:14 am
Qatar, Turkey to host Palestinian murder convicts freed in hostage deal — officials
Decision on where to send the prisoners is coordinated with Israel, officials tell ToI; Hamas said to vow terror chiefs Barghouti and Saadat will be freed in deal’s 2nd phase
By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks after his meeting with Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez at the Moncloa palace in Madrid, Spain, September 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Paul White)
January 26, 2025, 9:40 pm
Palestinians, Jordan, Egypt reject Trump’s idea to send Gazans out of Strip
Jordan’s FM also rejects suggestion, after US president says he discussed it with King Abdullah; Hamas politburo vows Palestinians will ‘foil such projects’ as they have in past
By Agencies
Left: Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (Stephanie Keith / Getty Images via AFP); right: Released Fatah terrorist Yasser Abu-Bakr takes a call from Abbas on January 25, 2025. (X; used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)
January 26, 2025, 5:28 am
PA President Abbas calls to congratulate Palestinian terrorist released in Gaza deal
Israeli legislators rage at call between Abbas and Fatah prisoner Yasser Abu-Bakr, who was serving multiple life terms, warn that PA cannot be given role in managing postwar Gaza
By ToI Staff
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, right, talks with Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, Barbara Leaf, onboard a C-17 aircraft as he departs Israel for Cairo, Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024. (Evelyn Hockstein/Pool via AP)
January 24, 2025, 3:42 pm
‘We averted much worse’: Biden’s top Mideast diplomat looks back on tumultuous term
Barbara Leaf ends diplomatic career hopeful about developments in Syria and Lebanon, regrets she could not convince Netanyahu to advance alternative to Hamas rule in post-war Gaza
By Jacob Magid
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken waves as he departs from Rome Ciampino Airport, near Rome, a day after talks in Rome with European counterparts on the need to encourage stability in Syria, as Turkey threatens Kurdish forces in the war-torn country, on January 10, 2025. (Yara Nardi / POOL / AFP)
January 14, 2025, 7:39 am
Blinken to unveil Gaza ‘day-after’ plan in speech sparking division within Biden admin
Secretary wants plan to be blueprint for post-war management of Gaza, but some US officials fear window to give such a speech closed after Nov. and that it could harm hostage talks
By Jacob Magid
Palestinians hold yellow Fatah movement flags as they demonstrate in support of the Palestinian security forces in the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank, December 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
January 12, 2025, 10:31 am
Fatah vows not to let Hamas ‘replicate its actions’ in West Bank, slams Iran
PA President Abbas says terror group ‘sacrificed the interests of the Palestinian people for Iran,’ caused destruction of Gaza, as Ramallah cracks down on West Bank operatives
By Jacob Magid
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