Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas isvery ambiguous personality. On the one hand, his struggle for the freedom and independence of his native country evokes genuine respect. On the other hand, some of his methods of conducting political battles clearly go beyond the limits of what is permitted. But let's get everything in order.
Abbas Mahmoud: a brief biography
Future Palestinian leader was born March 26, 1935year in the city of Safed, today is the northern part of Israel. When Mahmoud turned 13, the Arab-Israeli war broke out. Therefore, in 1948, the family was forced to leave home and move to Syria.
Abbas Mahmoud graduated inDamascus University, graduating from the Faculty of Law. A little later he moved to Moscow, where he entered the Institute of Oriental Studies. In 1983, he defended his doctoral thesis on the theme “The secret link between Nazism and Zionism”. It should be noted that the lines from this work will repeatedly become the cause of scandals and reproaches from people accusing Mahmoud of denying the Holocaust.
Upon arrival at home, he became an ardent publicdefender of Palestinian rights. Moreover, Abbas Mahmoud is one of the founding fathers of the Movement for the National Liberation of Palestine (FATAH). Subsequently, their grouping became the heart of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), which coordinated the actions of all Palestinians who wanted to be free from the influence of Israel.
Political career
In early 1980, Abbas Mahmoud was elected to the PLO Executive Committee. Thanks to his firm convictions and keen wits, he is quickly moving up the career ladder.
In the 90s he was engaged in the settlement of Israeli-Palestinian relations. In 1993, he visited Washington together with Yasser Arafat, where they signed the Declaration of Principles together.
In 1996, Mahmoud Abbas takes overduties of the Secretary General of the PLO. Thanks to this position, he becomes second on the list in the hierarchy of the organization, yielding in his powers only to the head of the organization, Yasser Arafat.
After the death of the latter in late 2004, M.Abbas becomes the leader of the Palestinian Authority. True, according to official data, he accepted this position only in January 2005. And on November 23, 2008, the PLO Council elects him as the new president of the PNA.
His most significant contribution to developmentindependence was the renaming of the PNA to the state of Palestine on January 5, 2013. At the same time, Abbas changed not only the name of the country itself, but also introduced a number of bills approving the new symbolism, the flag, the emblem and the anthem.
Scandals around the Palestinian President
Start with the fact that not everyone recognizes the powernew leader. Thus, for many Jews, Abbas Mahmoud is only the self-proclaimed president of a non-existent state (according to data for 2014, only 135 of 193 countries recognized New Palestine).
Также некоторых не устраивает то, как Махмуд Abbas refers to the Jews. And the matter is not in his dissertation, but in the way he positions his current policy in relation to this nation. For example, in 2010, a note appeared in the media that Abbas was allegedly opposed to Jewish families living on Palestinian land.
