How does the Israeli public view Mahmoud Abbas?
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cant say for sure. ask scott@antiwar.com
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i support zionism.  everybody deserves a home, but where can the jewish people go?  now they have Isreal, so they should keep it.  but that land was arab land, taken from other people.  who has the right to decide who gets what land? well, mabey superpowers :).  i am truely happy for the jewish people that they finally got a place to call home after thousands of years of hardship and opression.  i hope Isreal lives a long and prosperous life as on of the only civilized countries in the Middle East region.
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HEll no\nhe is the biggest imperialistic idiot in the world - he is the lapdog of the jews and a hypocrit- he is willing to kill inocent people in irag and palestine then has the audasity to support israel and threaten the world!
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He is the best hope for Israel to move forward on the peace plan with the Palestinians.  He has been a military leader and politician that is respected by Israeli to care for them and protect and be able to bring peace.
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Permanent Peace will be reached with justice first. Zionist Jewish Fundamentalists established thier State, Israel, on Palestinian lands. Palestinian farmers and villagers and townsmen were kicked out of thier homes inside Palestine and were exiled in many countries as refugees. They must be immediately compensated and allowed to return to thier homes and lands to get back to thier normal lives, instead of living miserable lives in Refugee camps in other countries. Since when was it okay to take someone's country just because some people claim God gave it to them like what the zionists have done?? Palestine is a normal country under occupation. Just like the Iraqi thugs where kicked out of Kuwait, the Israeli thugs will be kicked out of Palestine too isa. Iraq's Saddam and Israel's Generals did the same mistake and I see no reason why we should favour one thug over the other. Justice MUST NOT be PREFERENTIAL. When the Palestinians regain thier independence from Israeli occupation, oil pricess will DIVE and the arms race in that region of the world will for the first time come to a complete standstill. It's time the Middle Eastern people had a break, Israel's occupation of Palestine must end today before tomorrow.
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No, many arabs enjoy citizenship, with full voting, working, etc. rights, just like israeli citizens. Palestine is a seperate territory, with seperate laws, etc. The problem is that Palestinians demand  working rights, etc. that they don't legally have. Imagine if Mexicans DEMANDED the same rights that you have. Uh oh, they kinda are, aren't they?
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You can talk about the injustice of the occupation of the Palestinian people.\n\nThose sources could be helpful.
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No, I am ashamed to admit that I have not; however, I would be very interested in knowing your views of him, how he's helped the Country since being elected and how the public, in general, feels about him.\n\nWhat do you feel are his strong points.  Does he, in your opinion, have any weak points?  How do you see the Country at the end of his term?\n\nCould you please do an 'add on' and fill me in?\n\nThank you =)\n\nADD ON:   Thank you so much for the additional details.   It sounds as though Presidente Chavez does have the welfare of his Country and his people at heart.  I would say this: if you feel his weakness is in his military training and what he could do with it, don't be completely blinded by all the great things he's doing.  Remember, Hitler did a lot of great things for Germany, too, for a while, including turning the economy around to a thriving condition again and the citizens of Germany thought he was going to save their Country.  I truly hope, for the sake of Venezuela, that Chavez is truly who he seems to be.  But never ignore the lessons of history.
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"Iran's new president created a sense of outrage in the west yesterday by describing Israel as a "disgraceful blot" that should be "wiped off the face of the earth". Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who is more hardline than his predecessor, told students in Tehran that a new wave of Palestinian attacks would be enough to finish off Israel."\n\n"Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday lambasted Israel and Zionism and quoted the late Ayatollah Khomeini calling for Israel to be "wiped out from the map.""\n\n"A day after drawing international condemnation for declaring that "Israel should be wiped off the map," Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad joined an estimated several hundred thousand demonstrators in an annual anti-Israel march that made clear his words are a time-honored slogan in Iran."
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They don't want issue news about killing Palestinians.\nIsraelis attack to unarmed people in Palestine to running out them of their country.\nIf you search on the net and watching documentary media, you will find a lot of guilty activities are doing Israelis, including: Murdering Children and Women in their houses, destroying Plastinian buildings, attack to hospitals, etc.\n\nPalestinians don't have a job opportunity in Palestine where they and their forefathers birth and life. Even Israelis don't let Palestinians live in their country freely, \n\nAs you wrote, all of life are precious. But Israelis don't cares to facts. They are racists and Zionists.\nThey pretend to they are Nazism's victims while they are killing innocent people in Palestine everyday (Exactly after WWII until now).\n\nHitler said: "Some lives worth more than other lives". Just look at Israelis. They had very good teacher.\n\nYou should know, US is supporting Israel government as well, So they did/do everything that they want. Watch some Bush speeches, he is proud to supporting Israel, of course Israelis support him and some other politicians. They have common benefits.
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I think firing Hamas is definitly out of the question, since there would just be pure chaos. Stepping down would not be a very good idea since if he did there would be no bridge to the PA that Israel or the US to use in any such negotitiations. I don't think he failed, he may not have been to affective. It's a hard line to balance to try to please the more radicals but yet also appear as a peacemaker at the same time. It's something that few leaders in that region have been able to do very well. If they appear to much with the radicals they are labelled as dictators or a supporter of terrorism. If they appear to much of a peacemaker and side to much with the West, then they appear as a puppet and weak. This pressure is doubled for Abbas and especially now with Hamas in the government.
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I sympathize with the plight of the Palestinian people, but politically I believe that they're wrong and are never going to get what they want. The problem with the Palestinians' position is that they insist on the destruction of Israel. I think the Palestininians should get their own country, but not at the expense of the destruction of Israel.
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One thing few people expected was to see an Israeli flag waved straight at the television camera by one of the Ghanaian players celebrating the goal. \n\nHapoel Tel Aviv's John Pantsil didn't stop there. At the end of the game he proudly paraded around the pitch holding the blue-and-white flag in the air. \n\nPantsil is one of three Israel-based players in the Ghana squad, but the only one to have played a significant part in the Black Stars' success (Ashdod 'keeper Sammy Adjei has yet to make an appearance and Hapoel Kfar Saba's Emmanuel Pappoe only played the first half of the loss to Italy). \n\nHis celebration was clearly planned in advance (he appeared to have kept the flag hidden in his sock) and was hoping for an opportunity to show the world how much he cares about and loves the country he lives and works in. \n\nWhat was most impressive about what Pantsil did was the purity of his intentions. \n\nExplaining his actions the defender told one Israeli sports Website: "I love the fans in Israel. I have played at Hapoel and Maccabi Tel Aviv and the fans always made me happy so I wanted to make them happy." \n\nThat was it. Pure and simple. \n\nToo often Israeli soccer is directly connected with politics. When the national team or an Israeli club plays abroad, there can be protests against the situation in the territories, as seen before the game against Ireland last year. \n\nBut at last they have an ambassador for Israel who doesn't care about politics. \n\nThe flag waving spoke volumes about Israeli football and this country. \n\nIsrael is seen by many people as a dangerous and controversial country - the last place you would decide to move to for work. \n\nBut sports is different. \n\nThe Israeli Premier League is packed with foreign players, many of whom have lived in the country for many years. \n\nSome don't settle in, such as Betar Jerusalem's Spanish striker David Aganzo, who left after a few months. \n\nBut more often than not they fall in love with the country, and especially the passionate Israeli fans. \n\nAnd, like Pantsil, when many foreign players leave the club they originally came to play for, they move to another within Israel and stay here for a significant amount of time. \n\nCroatian Giovani Rosso has been in Israel for the last 10 years. He first came to play for Hapoel Beersheba in 1996 and has since played for four other teams, including Hapoel Haifa, Betar Jerusalem, Maccabi Haifa and Maccabi Tel Aviv.
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The so-called Palestinians are certainly Arabs.  Their nationality was invented in 1964 in order to destroy Israel.\n\nThe current PLO and Arab claim (and mainstream media regurgitation of it) is indeed a very distorted version of `recorded history' and can only qualify as pure Orwellian propaganda. In fact, putting aside all the myths and propaganda, the only area that would qualify historically as truly Arab land, is the Arabian desert peninsula. Unfortunately, it seems that Goebbels was correct in stating that if a lie were repeated often enough, it would come to be "perceived" as truth.\n\nThere is no language known as Palestinian. There is no distinct Palestinian culture. There has never been a land known as Palestine governed by Palestinians. Palestinians are Arabs, indistinguishable from Jordanians (another recent invention), Syrians, Lebanese, Iraqis, etc. Keep in mind that the Arabs control 99.9 percent of the Middle East lands. Israel represents one-tenth of 1 percent of the landmass. \n\nBut even that's too much for the Arabs. They want it all. And that is ultimately what the fighting in Israel is about today. Greed. Pride. Envy. Covetousness. No matter how many land concessions the Israelis make, it will never be enough. \n\n"It is common knowledge that Palestine is nothing but southern Syria." \n- Ahmed Shuqeiri, later the chairman of the PLO, to the UN Security Council.\n\nIn the words of the late military commander of the PLO as well as member of the PLO Executive Council, Zuhair Muhsin:\n"There are no differences between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. We are all part of one nation. It is only for political reasons that we carefully underline our Palestinian identity....yes, the existence of a separate Palestinian identity serves only tactical purposes. The founding of a Palestinian state is a new tool in the continuing battle against Israel."
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Mahmoud Abbas is real name,but in Arabic you call a person who has kids by father of his oldest son\nabu means father \nand mazen is his oldest son\nthis gives respect to older people
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You are wrong Miguel.\nThe Acting Israeli Prime Minister is Ehud Olmert.\nAt least until the elections in March.
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Israeldevelop a new policy in Palestine issue with Şaron's last gov't: ONE SİDED PEACE , in so İsrael withdraw from Gaza Stript and some areas of West Bank. this  withdraw is not about Mahmod Abbas or his gov't political success. Kadima will continue this policy and will withdraw from some part of West Bank additionally. Of course Palestinians own country will established, otherwise İsrael will never feel in secure. But the real problem is not the establisment of PAlestinian country but mainly the REFUGEE problem, THE BORDER OF THE PALESTINIAN STATE,and THE STATUE OF JURASALEM. to sum up Israel doesn't want to negotiate with HAMAS and its state policy doesn't need onether side... Because Israel want to draw Palestian sate border on its own self..