| May 25, 2006 | - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called on the Hamas-led
Palestinian Authority to accept the goal of establishing a Palestinian state (and thus acknowledge Israel's right to exist); if Hamas does not comply, he said that he will call a national referendum on the issue.
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CNN.com
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| August 9, 2005 | - President Mahmoud Abbas announced that the Palestinian general election will be delayed until January 2006.
| Source:
BBC News
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| June 5, 2005 | -
Mahmoud Abbas postponed Palestinian elections until an unspecified date.
| Source:
Haaretz.com
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| February 8, 2005 | -
Mahmoud Abbas and Ariel Sharon shook hands across a table and declared a truce between Israel and Palestine.
| Source:
BBC News
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| January 9, 2005 | -
Mahmoud Abbas was elected president of the Palestinian Authority. He dedicated his victory to "the soul of the brother martyr Yasir Arafat and to our people."
| Source:
New York Times
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| January 7, 2005 | - then offered Abbas personal security in Jerusalem, which he refused.
| Source:
Azcentral.com
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| November 14, 2004 | -
Mahmoud Abbas, Arafat's most likely successor, dodged bullets in Gaza.
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Al Jazeera
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| September 7, 2003 | -
Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian prime minister, resigned, and Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the spiritual leader of Hamas, was injured in an Israeli
airstrike.
| Source:
New York Times
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| July 2, 2003 | - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel and Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas of the Occupied Territories got together on their own initiative and shook hands publicly; Abbas expressed his wish to end suffering, death, and pain.
| Source:
New York Times
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| June 13, 2003 | -
Ariel Sharon, the Israeli prime minister, ridiculed Palestinian leaders as "crybabies" and said that Abu Mazen, the new prime minister, was "a chick without feathers."
| Source:
Independent, Guardian
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| June 6, 2003 | - President Bush, Prime Ministers Ariel Sharon and Mahmoud Abbas, and King Abdullah II of Jordan stood outdoors together in the hot sun wearing suits and ties but were kept free of unsightly perspiration by tubes installed by White House operatives that blasted cold air from an ultra-quiet air conditioner that was hidden nearby.
| Source:
New York Times
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| June 4, 2003 | -
Sharon and Abbas read statements about the "road map" to peace that were largely written by American officials.
| Source:
New York Times
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| May 1, 2003 | - A suicide bomber, who turned out to be a British citizen, responded to the confirmation of Mahmoud Abbas as prime minister by blowing up a nightclub in Tel Aviv, leaving body parts scattered along the shore.
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| December 12, 2000 | - A man named Abbas Abbas shot up a mosque in the Sudan, killing twenty people, three days before general elections, which were being boycotted by opposition parties.
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