Assad to Abbas: Please stay away

Gregg Carlstrom | October 5, 2009 8:02 AM | 0 | recommend (0) |   |      

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas must be feeling a little isolated right now.

Abbas and Assad

Syrian president Bashar al-Assad has asked him to delay a planned visit to Damascus, presumably because Assad wants to avoid being photographed with the newly-radioactive Abbas.

A coalition of Palestinian human rights groups is planning to march through the streets of Ramallah today, according to Al-Jazeera, to protest Abbas' decision to delay the Goldstone Report.

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Categories: Diplomacy, Human Rights, Israel & Palestine, Regional News, Syria

Tags: Bashar al-Assad, Fatah, Goldstone Report, Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian Authority, West Bank

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Mahmoud Abbas is creating an inquiry committee to look into the Palestinian Authority's decision to delay the Goldstone Report. I'm curious to see what the committee will find, since Abbas himself signed off on the decision.

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Gregg Carlstrom | March 9, 2010 4:56 AM | 1 | recommend (0)
Vice President Joe Biden and his wife arrived in Israel on Monday.
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Gregg Carlstrom | March 7, 2010 9:27 AM | 0 | recommend (0)
An Iraqi man on a bicycle displays his ink-stained finger after voting in Baghdad on March 7, 2010. (Photo: AP)
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