Intifada Palestine

ShareBy Various Undersigned (29 July 2010) The following open letter to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, whose elected mandate expired in July 2009 and who has remained in power under controversial emergency laws, was issued on 22 July 2010: We are Palestinians of diverse perspectives and affiliations — scholars, intellectuals, artists, activists, trade unionists, human [...]

Mahmoud Abbas
“I would never deny [the] Jewish right to the land of Israel”
“You know that from the year 2000 to 2005 we had a period of Intifada. That period destroyed everything that had been built earlier. …When I ran for the Presidency I raised the slogan, ‘No violence against Israel. No armed struggle against Israel.”