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Mahmoud Abbas Biography

Mahmoud Abbas (Arabic: مَحْمُود عَبَّاس‎, Maḥmūd ʿAbbās; born 15 November 1935), also known by the kunya Abu Mazen (Arabic: أَبُو مَازِن‎, 'Abū Māzin), is the President of the State of Palestine and Palestinian National Authority. He has been the Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) since 11 November 2004, and Palestinian president since 15 January 2005 (Palestinian National Authority since 15 January 2005, and State of Palestine since 8 May 2005). Abbas is a member of the Fatah party.

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The PLO and the Palestinian people adhere to the renouncement of violence and rejection and condemning of terrorism in all its forms, especially State terrorism, and adhere to all agreements signed between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel.

Adhere, Agreement, Israel, Organization, People, Violence

The little jihad is over, and now we have the bigger jihad - the bigger battle is achieving security and economic growth

Battle, Economic, Growth, Jihad, Littles

No state on earth can afford to allow several authorities to co-exist next to one another.

Authorities, Authority, Earth, Next, State

Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the people of Palestine. We only aim to de-legitimize the settlement activities and the occupation and apartheid and the logic of ruthless force, and we believe that all the countries of the world stand with us in this regard.

Believe, Countries Of The World, Country, Force, People

We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.

Build, Country, Pieces, States, Viable

All of this wasn't enough - the Zionist movement led a broad campaign of incitement against the Jews living under Nazi rule to arouse the government's hatred of them, to fuel vengeance against them and to expand the mass extermination.

Broad, Campaigns, Expand, Fuel, Government, Hatred

Give me until the end of the year and I will be able to control the chaos in Gaza,. . . Now that the Israeli pullout is completed, we will be able to better deal with the problem.

Able, Give, Giving, Pullout, Year, Years

We feel sorrow and pain over the death of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Fahd. We have known this man for a long time. . . he showed support and commitment to the Palestinian revolution and to Fatah since the 1960s.

Commitment, Custodian, Holy, Kings, Pain, Time

From here [the Gaza withdrawal], our people begin the march towards establishing an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital

Establishing, Gaza, Independent, March, People, Withdrawal

We would continue our commitments, president and cabinet, to the manner of negotiations as a strategic and political reality, through which we would pick up the fruits of our struggle and our people's sacrifice.

Commitment, Manner, Pick, Sacrifice, Struggle

The core issue here is that the Israeli government refuses to commit to terms of reference for the negotiations that are based on international law and United Nations resolutions, and that it frantically continues to intensify building of settlements on the territory of the State of Palestine.

Government, International, Issues, Law, Negotiations, Territory

The Zionist movement did not send any assistance, financial or otherwise, for the victims of Nazism and it did not allow any other side to provide any kind of aid. The Zionist movement concealed the information that came from within the ghetto walls and concentration camps, news that shed light on what was really happening. If it had to publish anything, it did so by questioning that information and diminishing its importance.

Ghetto, Light, Provide, Publish, Questioning, Wall

Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it is the one that determines whether or not a Palestinian citizen has the right to reside in any part of the Palestinian Territory.

Cities, Israel, Military, Occupation, Part, West

We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law.

Foundation, Foundations, Law, Rule, State, States