Palestinian Abbas Calls Israel 'The Zionist Enemy'
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Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas called  Israel "the Zionist enemy" Tuesday, unprecedented language for  the relative moderate who is expected to succeed Yasser Arafat.
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NABLUS, West Bank  - Just two days after branding  Israel the "Zionist enemy," Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas  pledged on Thursday to pursue peace talks following the Jan. 9  presidential election he is widely expected to win.
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NABLUS, West Bank -- Front-running candidate Mahmoud Abbas called yesterday for peace talks with Israel after this weekend's Palestinian presidential election, a sharp contrast to days of hard-line campaign pronouncements that included his labeling Israel the "Zionist enemy."
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The ruling Hamas group accused Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah of starting a war after his security forces opened fire on Friday on a Hamas rally in the West Bank and firefights broke out in Gaza.
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Abbas's push to return to the 'road map' is at loggerheads with Sharon's focus on unilateral withdrawal from Gaza.
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He&#39;s called on Palestinians to back the leading contender, Mahmoud Abbas, also known as Abu Mazen. Middle East Correspondent Jane Hutcheon reports from Jersualem.
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Mahmoud Abbas has said before that the Palestinians were wrong to use violence against Israel in the &quot;current intifada.&quot; But this time, he said it as a candidate to lead the Palestinians
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The killings drew a pointed response from Mahmoud Abbas, the favorite in the Palestinian presidential election on Sunday.
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Abbas claims Arafat's mantle, but peace may be no closer
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The Palestinian Authority Monday ordered its mass media to stop inciting violence against Israel. Official sources told UPI PLO Chairman Mahmoud Abbas recently visited PA media
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Mustafa Barghouti, one of the nine candidates to run in the Palestinian presidential election, accused Israel on Wednesday of interfering in the election affairs.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon branded as anti-Semites those critics of Israel who liken its crackdown on a Palestinian revolt to Nazi efforts to exterminate Jews.
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A prominent candidate in the Palestinian presidential elections accused Israel yesterday of &quot;discrimination&quot; in allowing the former prime minister Mahmoud Abbas to travel freely
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GAZA CITY -- President Mahmoud Abbas's bumpy efforts to set up a Palestinian government acceptable to the West suffered a new setback yesterday when the prime minister from the Islamic militant Hamas group said he would not lead a coalition that recognizes Israel.
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Palestinian presidential-election favorite Mahmoud Abbas called Wednesday for the tearing down of Israel&#39;s West Bank barrier, warning that it would never deliver security.
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Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, the front runner to succeed late Yasser Arafat, condemned on Wednesday the Israeli army incursion into the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Younis.
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Palestinian presidential candidate Mahmoud Abbas denounced Israel as the "Zionist enemy" Tuesday &#151; his harshest language yet on the campaign trail &#151; after Israeli tank shells slammed into a strawberry patch, killing seven Palestinians, many of them children.