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January 16, 2023

A Palestinian Human-Rights Activist Reflects on Two Decades of Mahmoud Abbas’s Rule

“Abbas is the real occupier of our cities and our homeland.”

January 9 marked the nineteenth anniversary of Mahmoud Abbas’s election to a four-year term as president of the Palestinian Authority. Since then, no new presidential elections have taken place, and the eighty-seven-year-old Abbas has taken no substantive steps to establish a peaceful transfer of power in the event of his death. Bassam Eid explains how this situation came about, and considers how Palestinians might gain their freedom:

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January 16, 2023

  1. Reaffirming the Ground Rules for the U.S.-Israel Alliance

    And a new opportunity for collaboration against Iran.

  2. A Palestinian Human-Rights Activist Reflects on Two Decades of Mahmoud Abbas’s Rule

    “Abbas is the real occupier of our cities and our homeland.”

  3. In Revoking the Appointment of a Notorious Anti-Israel Obsessive, a Harvard Dean Stands on Principle

    Kenneth Roth and the Kennedy School.

  4. The Growing Gulf between Religious and Secular

    The collapse of the moderate middle.

  5. The Odessa-Born Jew-Turned British Secret Agent Who Might Have Inspired James Bond

    Rosenblum, ace of spies.