Not only was Abbas directly involved in the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993, when the Palestinian Authority was created, it was Abbas— not Yasser Arafat— who signed the Accords on behalf of Palestine. This is because part of the agreement was the transitioning of Palestine away from Ararat’s Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), which had spent decades engaged in militant warfare against Israel, to the newly formed Palestinian Authority (PA), which Abbas and the Fatah party would lead.

Here are images from that moment, where you can clearly see Abbas—not Arafat— address the world in front of the White House. He explicitly thanks the Russian Federation for facilitating the peace deal between Israel and Palestine.

In summary, Abbas and the Fatah party has been working in earnest to implement the Two-State Solution for over 30 years.