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Tag: Mahmoud Abbas

  • JBS News – January 6th

    JBS News – January 6th

    JBS News Update
    Anchored by Ron Jacobsohn from January 6th, 2014

    Today Headlines:
    – Jonathan Greenblatt named as the new head of the Anti-Defamation League.
    – A new wave of terror attacks around Israel dubbed the Jerusalem Intifada.
    – Malcolm Hoenlein says there’s no viable partner so long as Abbas is in power.
    – The PCPO poll claims 50% of Palestinians foresee a violent confrontation with Israel.
    – Ed Miliband calls upon a zero tolerance policy against Anti-Semitism in the U.K.
    – Lawsuit of parents who claim their kids were victims of Anti-Semitism will proceed.
    – El-Al enters a code sharing agreement with U.S. carrier, JetBlue.
    – Director Yael Parlov working on the documentary on the last years of David Ben-Gurion

     

  • Ron Jacobsohn Talks to People Close to Mahmoud Abbas

    Ron Jacobsohn Talks to People Close to Mahmoud Abbas

    Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, is celebrating his seventy-ninth birthday and later in the year it will be his tenth year as the head of the Palestinian Authority. JN1’s Ron Jacobsohn went to talk to some people who know the President intimately to find what we don’t know about him and does he have within him what it takes to be the one leader to make the peace between the Palestinians and the Israeli’s.