After 100 days as Palestinian leader, Mahmoud Abbas is slowly but surely asserting his control over key institutions despite having failed to secure any major breakthrough in the peace process with Israel. While proud of his achievements to date, Abbas has stressed he is no miracle worker. ”We do not have a magic wand,” he said.
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/ 11 November 2004
The Palestinian leadership divided up the spoils of Yasser Arafat’s power on Thursday, as Parliament Speaker Rawhi Fattuh was sworn in as acting head of the Palestinian Authority and ex-premier Mahmud Abbas became the new Palestine Liberation Organisation supremo.
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/ 26 October 2004
Yasser Arafat’s medics flatly denied on Tuesday that the 75-year-old Palestinian leader needs hospital treatment after Israel gave clearance for him to be treated outside his West Bank headquarters. Israel’s Defence Ministry said late on Monday that Arafat will be allowed to leave his headquarters to be examined in a Ramallah hospital.