Palestinian leadership, for now, immune to normalization deals - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Daoud Kuttab

Daoud Kuttab

Sep 18, 2020

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas speaks in the West Bank's Ramallah on September 3, 2020, as he meets by video conference with representatives of Palestinian factions gathered at the Palestinian embassy in Beirut in rare talks on how to respond to such accords and to a Middle East peace plan announced by Washington this year. (Photo by Alaa BADARNEH / POOL / AFP) (Photo by ALAA BADARNEH/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) — Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas speaks in the West Bank's Ramallah on September 3, 2020. — ALAA BADARNEH/POOL/AFP via Getty Images

TOPSHOT - (L-R)US President Donald Trump speaks as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al-Nahyan and Bahrain Foreign Minister Abdullatif al-Zayani listen before they participate in the signing of the Abraham Accords where the countries of Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates recognize Israel, on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, September 15, 2020. - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the foreign ministers of Bahrain and the United

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Palestinians hold pictures of late leader Yasser Arafat in Gaza City on November 9, 2017, during a festival to commemorate the 13th anniversary of his death.
According to organisers, the event was called by exiled Palestinian politician Mohammed Dahlan (portrait), partly to celebrate a recently agreed reconciliation agreement between the major Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah. Dahlan has been in exile in the UAE since falling out with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas and expelled from his Fatah movem

Palestinian security forces round up Dahlan supporters in West Bank

Daoud Kuttab

In Amman, reporting on Palestinian politics

Palestinian Football Association (PFA) head and member of the Fatah Central Committee, Jibril Rajoub, speaks during a press conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah on September 3, 2018. - The head of the Palestinian football association pledged on September 3 to appeal a 12-month ban and 20,000 Swiss francs ($20,600, 17,700 euros) fine against him by FIFA over comments made about Lionel Messi for "inciting hatred and violence", after calling on fans to burn the latter's pictures and jerseys in the buil

Palestinian president stacks Jerusalem branch with loyalists

Daoud Kuttab

In Amman, reporting on Palestinian politics

RAMALLAH, -: Palestinians hold a banner showing late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (L) and Fatah MP Mohammed Dahlan during a rally in the West Bank city of Ramallah 11 January 2007, to mark the 42nd anniversary of the Fatah movement. Thousands of flag-waving chanting supporters of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's Fatah party poured into central Ramallah for a second rally in less than a week aimed at staging a show of force agains the ruling Hamas movement. AFP PHOTO/PEDRO UGARTE (Photo credit shou

Palestinian Authority targets Dahlan’s supporters in West Bank

Ahmad Melhem

In Ramallah, reporting on politics