- Prof. Hillel Frisch
- Paper No. 529
Thanks to his struggle against Israel, Mahmoud Abbas is a political superstar. Many heads of NATO states can only dream of his access to great leaders. As long as Abbas does not make peace with Israel, he meets US presidents with almost the same frequency as the prime minister of Great Britain. If he does make peace, he might suffer the fate of Jordanโs kings, who meet the US president far less after having signed the Israel-Jordan peace treaty than they did before.