Mahmoud abbas biography of abraham lincoln
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Abbas, Mahmud (1935–)
Palestinian politician Mahmud Abbas (also known as Abu Mazin) long played a key role in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process and had become the paramount political leader on the Palestinian political scene by the early twenty-first century.
Mahmoud abbas biography of abraham lincoln
It was under his leadership that Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) first started face-to-face talks in the early 1990s, a process that gave birth to the Palestinian Authority (PA), and it was he who assumed the positions of chairman of the PLO and president of the PA upon the death of long-time Palestinian leader yasir arafat in 2004.
PERSONAL HISTORY
Abbas was born in 1935 in the town of Safad (Hebrew: Tzfat) in the Galilee region of what was then Mandatory Palestine.
Most of Safad's inhabitants at that time were Sunni Muslim Arabs like Abbas's family, but about twenty percent were Jews—roughly the same percentage as in the population of Palestine at large. The Abbas family's fortunes changed drama