mahmoud abbas became the leader of the palestinian authority after yasser arafat's death in november 2004. of course, coming to power after yasser arafat is a difficult matter, but after his death i clearly understood that i had to take his place, because if you are elected, then you no longer choose, i belong to not very public people, i don't really like the press, i like to study. in 2005, after the elections, mahmoud abbas officially became the second chairman of the palestinian national authority. in 2012, the palestinian state received observer status at the un. the general assembly granted palestine the status of observer state at the united nations, which was an important turning point on the path to becoming an independent. 10 thousand years, and there shone a truly biblical miracle, the tree of zacchaeus, to which more than 2 thousand years old, perhaps the only witness, a living witness of jesus christ. this tree was named after the tax collector zacchaeus. in the gospel of luke, in chapter nineteen, it is described: how the tax collector zacchaeus, being short in stature,

i will tell you frankly, the former president palestine, yasser arafat, visited moscow in 1968 together with the president of egypt gamal abdalnassar. i myself visited moscow for the first time in 1979. i was part of a delegation of representatives. this visit lasted 10 days, and it will remain in my memory for a long time, since then the soviet union, that the russian federation, never betrayed the palestinian people, were always on their side. i remember when the soviet union collapsed, many visits stopped. but i was the only one who came to moscow every 3 months. russia is our bosom friend. i don’t remember it ever treating us badly or acting against us? no matter what requests we made of the russian federation, it was always ready to help us. was born on march 26, 1935 in the city of sofet, graduated from the faculty of law of damascus university, postgraduate study at the university of friendship of peoples and... since 1980 a member of the executive committee of the plo, the palestine liberation organization. in may 1996 , he was elected secretary general of the plo executive comm

the characteristics of the islamic republic of iran in all these years , even when, for example, yasser arafat was a guerilla in the scene and then he changed his position and thought that it was possible to make peace with them, and he made a mistake and poisoned them. to testify, our position has not changed at all , that is, the direct path of the islamic republic of iran has been stable and solid, and it has become stronger day by day, and this thinking has been transferred to the countries of the region, when there was no official front, no hezbollah, no in fact, the fighters of yemen and iraq, and these today, in fact, to the extent of our entire region we are witnessing the presence of the resistance front, and this means a change in the balance of power in favor of palestine and to the detriment of the zionist regime. mr. pani also pointed out that we did not lose our support for the resistance at various times. they are doing many activities in palestine. any country with any content of the program that is present, please emphasize the support of the oppressed people of palestine and

i ask the people to study the process that happened, yasser arafat, mahmoud abbas, and now the atmosphereresistance there is complete. this mahmoud abbas is officially the israeli police, which means he is serving them. i made it available completely for example, how many of these are happening in the region of mahmoud abbas's government ? these are exactly the ones that are fully accepted , that is, those who say, sir, the cost of compromise for peace is far less than resistance. now, let me give you two examples. he does these things, later they blow up the house on the other side, a martyrdom operation where his parents or his wife and children who were martyred or in prison, i.e. the person who goes there, something like this happens, later they know that his parents and the family that lives there will be displaced they are usually martyred because we know, now this point is open for people to know there, for example, many times, for example , he goes to the side, he hits a policeman, then who kills this side, that cafe next to that restaurant, they are all armed, that is, where they

it's sad to think of now, but it was in 1993 when yasser arafat and yitzhak rabin shook hands on the white house lawn and it seemed like that moment might be bringing in a new era of peace. and, of course, it wasn't to be. so that's a bittersweet memory. i sometimes of this another bittersweet memory. just the other day, a man named christopher edley, who i first worked with in the dukakis campaign, and then he's a law dean and civil rights expert. he just passed away this week and we worked together on a program to pretty much save affirmative action. it was called men don't end affirmative action. and the day that the president clinton gave the speech announcing that series of policies, which ended up preserving, i think, opportunity, education for helping preserve for about 20 years, was a proud day in the white house as well. these are wonderful memories. have to ask you, though. they're asking that you wait a little bit. we're going let give george a minute to get out and get to his car. he's got an early morning flight to chicago tomorrow, so he's got to get out of the room. an

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