IMEU Institute for Middle East Understanding
Q&As
Political analyst Diana Buttu weighs in on the national unity talks between the Fatah party of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas.
on October 9, 2017
Last month, Mahmoud Abbas, the President of the Palestinian Authority, announced before the United Nations General Assembly that the twenty-year effort to establish a Palestinian state through the Oslo process had failed. This declaration was long overdue.
on October 12, 2015
Diana Buttu: Abbas needs to call for international 'sanctions' on Israel. The former legal adviser to the PLO also added that the Palestinian president needs to accept a one-state solution. Watch Buttu's analysis of Abbas' UN General Assembly speech.
on September 30, 2015
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday declared that he will no longer be bound by the 1993 Oslo Accords between Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories, citing Israel's failure to uphold its obligations under the peace agreement.
on September 30, 2015
World leaders converging on the UN General Assembly will soon be hearing from Palestine’s Mahmoud Abbas and Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu. They should focus on Jerusalem, which is again at a boiling point and has the potential to be a global flashpoint if international leaders and diplomats fail to address increasingly reckless rhetoric from Israeli government leaders and the provocative actions of Israeli settlers.
on September 30, 2015
Q&As
With Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas having addressed the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday, September 30, 2015, the IMEU offers the following expert Q&A with Diana Buttu, a former advisor to Abbas and Palestinian negotiators.
on September 30, 2015
When he speaks at the U.N. General Assembly this week, there is a chance Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will announce that some or all of the Oslo Accords, the foundational document of the U.S.-sponsored Israeli-Palestinian "peace process" aimed at a two-state solution, are null and void.
on September 29, 2015
Support for the two-state solution has decreased among both Palestinians and Israelis over the past year with just 51 percent of both populations vouching support, a recent poll showed. Since June 2014, support for the two-state solution has decreased among Israelis from 62 percent to 51 percent and among Palestinians from 54 percent to 51 percent.
on July 14, 2015
Leaders of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), led by President Mahmoud Abbas, decided on Thursday to stop all forms of security coordination with Israel, Palestinian officials said. Three members of the Palestinian Central Council (PCC), the second highest Palestinian decision-making body, told Reuters the decision was taken during the two-day meeting that ended on Thursday.
on March 5, 2015