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How to use the word Abbas in a Sentence?

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Egyptians and the Jordanians put their pressure on (PA President Mahmoud) Abbas.

Michael Milshtein

Found on CNN
1 year ago

During our call, I told Mr Abbas that I strongly condemned Israel’s intervention on worshippers at Al-Aqsa Mosque and that we will stand against provocations and threats to its status or spirit, turkey always stands with Palestine.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

I have a lot of respect for President Mahmoud Abbas, mahmoud Abbas has devoted Mahmoud Abbas life to trying to make peace.

Jared Kushner

Found on CNN
4 years ago

If President Abbas is willing to come back to the table, we are ready to engage; if he is not, we will likely air the plan publicly, however, I do question how much President Abbas has the ability to, or is willing to, lean into finishing a deal. He has his talking points which have not changed in the last 25 years.

Jared Kushner

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

However, I do question how much President Abbas has the ability to, or is willing to, lean into finishing a deal. He has his talking points which have not changed in the last 25 years.

Jared Kushner

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

President Mahmoud Abbas's condition is showing a continuous and speedy improvement.

Istishari Hospital medical director

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will not accept for the U.S. to be a mediator, because after what they have done to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas — a believer shall not be stung twice in the same place.

Mahmoud Abbas

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I think what’s really tragic here is the complete lack of leadership by President Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who is defending these payments. I think Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has an opportunity to explain this to the Palestinian people and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has instead dug Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas heels and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's defending the system.

Elliot Abrams

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I think the most likely prospect you'll get with the Donald Trumps visit is the prospect of possibly renewing talks between Netanyahu and Mahmoud Abbas which would be significant after seven years.

David Makovsky

Found on CNN
6 years ago

President Abbas is coming to give peace a well-deserved chance and fully embrace this historic opportunity for another chance for peace presented by President Trump, we are focused on seizing this moment and giving this all that we have.

Husam Zumlot

Found on CNN
6 years ago

It's a blatant power grab at a time when he knows he can get away with it, from Abbas's standpoint, this is his way of both thwarting his rivals in Hamas and securing his Fatah party's hold on the Palestinian Authority once he is gone.

Grant Rumley

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

From Abbas's standpoint, this is his way of both thwarting his rivals in Hamas and securing his Fatah party's hold on the Palestinian Authority once he is gone.

Grant Rumley

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Rather than reforming his party, preparing for elections, or reactivating the defunct parliament, (Abbas) is creating another judicial body by presidential decree in order to, among other things, approve presidential decrees.

Grant Rumley

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There is no question that wave of attacks is driven directly by incitement. Incitement from Hamas, incitement from the Islamist movement in Israel, and incitement, I am sorry to say, from President Abbas.

Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I'll be meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu either in Germany or in the region, and I will be meeting with President Abbas and meeting with [Jordanian] King Abdullah and others.

State John Kerry

Found on CNN
8 years ago

This upsurge is mostly all bad for Abbas, any change in confronting Israel is necessarily a weakening of Abbas and a strengthening of his Palestinian political opponents, both within Fatah and outside it.

Nathan Thrall

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Historically, diplomatic activity in this conflict has increased in response to violence, the U.S. is shifting from largely ignoring this conflict to sending the secretary of state to reinvest in dealing with it. That is something Abbas desires. But the risks that attend this upsurge are much greater for him than the potential benefits.

Nathan Thrall

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We also believe that it's important for both, Prime Minister Netanyahu and Israeli elected officials and President Abbas and other people in positions of power, to try to tamp down rhetoric that may feed violence or anger or misunderstanding and try to get all people in Israel and in the West Bank to recognize that this kind of random violence is not going to result in anything other than more hardship and more insecurity.

President Barack Obama

Found on CNN
8 years ago

You heard the speech of Abu Mazen [ Abbas ] at the U.N., and you see the outcome now in the streets of Israel, it shows you the meaning of incitement.

Danny Danon

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Kerry's efforts (at a peace deal) last year failed. While he'll be listened to and he'd be used perhaps as a conduit to convey messages from one side to another, I'm pretty skeptical about what he can achieve at this point in time, kerry can put pressure on (Abbas) at this point and ask the Israelis to look at concrete ways of offering the Palestinians, once the violence is over, a political horizon, or that negotiations can be resumed.

Dan Arbell

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Kerry can put pressure on (Abbas) at this point and ask the Israelis to look at concrete ways of offering the Palestinians, once the violence is over, a political horizon, or that negotiations can be resumed.

Dan Arbell

Found on CNN
8 years ago

This has been in the making for some time now, it's part of the struggle for Abbas's succession as well as a consequence of the paranoia about Dahlan.

Mattia Toaldo

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The message has been the same throughout, the message started with [Yasser] Arafat and continues this day with Abbas.

Itamar Marcus

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

We hold President Abbas personally responsible for the aggressive campaign against Hamas in the West Bank, it is part of a dual campaign by the Zionist enemy (Israel) and the Palestinian Authority to uproot Hamas and the resistance.

Fawzi Barhoum

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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