Interview

Palestinian Affairs expert Khaled Abu Toameh explores various scenarios if aging, ailing Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas steps down

IPD Forum: Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is 81 and not in the best of health; what is likely to happen when he goes?

Khaled Abu Toameh: Abbas was elected as president of the Palesti...

Avigdor Liberman took over as Israel's Defense Minister on May 31. This followed a surprise turnabout when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who had been conducting coalition negotiations with the center-left Zionist Union party, chose instead the radical right-wing Yisrael Beytenu party, led by Liberman. Leading journalist Khaled Abu Toameh asses...