Mahmoud Abbas and other Soviet Ghosts

  Channel 1’s report Wednesday that in 1983, current Palestinian Authority Chairman and PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas served as a KGB agent is hardly the story of the year, but it does remind us of certain half-forgotten facts about the Cold War that are becoming ever more relevant today.   The PLO’s close and servile relationship with the KGB was … Continue reading Mahmoud Abbas and other Soviet Ghosts