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If that's the criterion, then move to Weymouth: it's less than 17 miles from the Cerne Abbas Giant.

In fact, it's likely that Fateh was ultimately a far better counter-weight to Hamas with Abbas at the helm.

Mahmoud Abbas refused a very generous offer in 2009[1], and since then kept refusing to further negotiate.

A thoughtful review of the filmography of Mani Haghighi, and on his influences, eg Abbas Kiarostami.

Furthermore, Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank joined Hamas in a unity government.

Negotiating with Abbas was never an attempt to negotiate with the Palestinian people, it was a an attempt to appear reasonable whilst running a prison camp that is widely likened to apartheid South Africa.

Iran Air Flight 655 was an international scheduled passenger flight from Tehran to Dubai via Bandar Abbas that was shot down on 3 July 1988 by two surface-to-air missiles fired by USS Vincennes, a United States Navy warship.

The missiles hit the Iran Air aircraft, an Airbus A300, while it was flying its usual route over Iran's territorial waters in the Persian Gulf, shortly after the flight departed its stopover location, Bandar Abbas International Airport.

Perhaps the lesson presented by both Abbas and Saima is the same: In many poor countries, the greatest unexploited resource isn’t oil fields or veins of gold; it is the women and girls who aren’t educated and never become a major presence in the formal economy.

Subsequent events would show this view was probably correct: When Abbas took control of Fatah it quickly lost control of Gaza to Hamas, and the Israelis have consistently struggled to find a successful approach to dealing with Hamas in Gaza (eg, they later fought a fairly unsuccessful war to try to control Hamas in Gaza).

Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian National Authority, has said "Hamas is funded by Iran.

That's not to say I like Abbas, of course, but criticism in the US is always the classic manichean "good" vs "evil", which ends up doing more harm than good.

Changing names after reaching majority or having a "family" name different from your public name is fairly common in other cultures, eg Lula / Ignacio da Silva or Abu Mazen / Mahmoud Abbas.

Seriously?" I say: Yes, Abbas, seriously.

Yup followed by destroying the SAM radar at Bandar Abbas, and shooting up a terrorist camp outside Baghdad.

It wasn't a choice between Arafat and Hamas, it was a choice between Arafat and Abbas.

Abbas was clearly preferable (for all the reasons stated above).