Give Abbas Another Chance (Daniel R. DePetris, The National Interest)

Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, is old and tired. The eighty-one-year-old from the village of Safed has been ensconced in the dysfunction and heartbreak of Palestinian politics for most of his professional life, where he played second fiddle to Yasser Arafat for years before climbing his way to the top of the PA hierarchy.

http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-skeptics/give-abbas-another-chance-15746