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Abbas’s rocky road to succeeding Yasser Arafat

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Photo: Finbarr O’Reilly/Reuters

Published: 12 July 2017

Last updated: 4 March 2024

As the reality of Yasser Arafat’s death sank in, the only thing that Palestinian leaders could agree on was that protocol should be followed, and protocol meant Abbas would be the guy

The political education of Mahmoud Abbas
GRANT RUMLEY, AMIR TIBON How the Palestinian leader tried to escape the ghost of Yasser Arafat (Atlantic, July 2)

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