Report: Palestinians dedicate 'largest ever dress' to Yasser Arafat
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Mahmoud Abbas: Would He Quit This Time?
Peace Process | Posted 11.13.2009 | World
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JERUSALEM -- Sometimes a quitter really does quit for good. The Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas, announced last week that he wouldn't...
Sarkozy urges Abbas to renew peace talks with Israel
Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 11.12.2009 | Home
French President Nicolas Sarkozy urged Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday to renew stalled peace negotiations with Israel, shortly after ...
Remembering the legacy of late PLO Chairman Arafat
WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 11.11.2009 | Home
Yasser Arafat with Kofi Annan at the 2001 World Economic Forum. Photo: Flickr user WorldEconomicForum Palestinians marked the fifth anniversa...
Palestinian Negotiator: 'Defining Moment' Is Here
AP | MARK LAVIE | Posted 11.09.2009 | World
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JERUSALEM — The chief Palestinian negotiator on Monday warned Israel that if it does not take peacemaking seriously, it will find itself dealing...
Tom Friedman: "It Is Time For A Radically New Approach" Toward Israeli-Palestinian Peace
nytimes.com | THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics
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The Israeli-Palestinian peace process has become a bad play. It is obvious that all the parties are just acting out the same old scenes, with the same...
Abbas Not To Seek Re-Election, Say Palestinian Officials
Al Jazeera English | Posted 11.05.2009 | World
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Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, has said he will not seek re-election when elections are held in January, Palestinian officials said. "Th...
Clinton meets with Netanyahu in Jerusalem
Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 10.31.2009 | Home
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was set to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday, a few hours after Palestinian President ...
Abbas to Obama: I'll quit, there's no chance for peace with Netanyahu
Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 10.26.2009 | Home
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told the White House that he intends to resign his post, Channel 10 reported on Monday. ......
Ex-U.S. envoy: Livni told Palestinian to reject Olmert peace offer
Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 10.22.2009 | Home
During her tenure as foreign minister, Tzipi Livni advised the Palestinian Authority to reject then-prime minister Ehud Olmert's proposals for a peace...
Abbas to declare elections for January 24
Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 10.20.2009 | Home
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Tuesday he would issue a decree on Sunday to hold elections by January 24, a move that could raise pressur...
Historical Revisionism on the Temple Mount
Daniel Levin | Posted 10.19.2009 | World
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A recent rejection of any Judeo-Christian connection to Jerusalem has become a growing force in Palestinian nationalism that may permanently endanger Jerusalem's ancient and modern past.
Peacemaking Demands Peacemakers
Edgar M. Bronfman | Posted 10.15.2009 | World
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For the Palestinians, there is still no real leadership, no one who speaks for all of them, and no one who can get them the state they so desperately want. This must change.
Palestinians urge Israeli punishment over Gaza
AP | Posted 10.14.2009 | Home
UNITED NATIONS — The Palestinians called Wednesday for global action to punish Israel for alleged war crimes during its military assault on Gaza last winter, warning that the credibility of the United Nations and international human rights law was at stake.
The demand was based on the findings of a commission headed by former South African judge Richard Goldstone that accused both Israeli forces and Palestinian militants of war crimes and possible crimes against humanity during their Dec. 27-Jan. 18 war.
Israel immediately rejected the commission's report, calling it "one-sided, biased and therefore wrong."
The report became the focus of the Security Council's monthly Mideast meeting on Wednesday after an about-face by the Palestinians.
Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad Al-Malki and Israel's U.N. Ambassador Gabriela Shalev opened the council meeting – which is expected to hear from more than 40 speakers – by trading accusations about the Goldstone report.
Fatah memo: We lost hope in Obama for caving to Zionist pressure
Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 10.13.2009 | Home
An internal document circulated among members of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' political party says all hopes placed in the Obama administratio...
Goldstone Report: Palestinians' Anger At Their Leaders Intensifies
Inter Press Service | Posted 10.09.2009 | World
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By Mel Frykberg | Inter Press Service RAMALLAH, Oct 9 (IPS) - The Palestinian Authority (PA) is trying desperately to contain the political fallout...
The Vichy Government of Palestine
Jamal Dajani | Posted 10.09.2009 | World
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Palestinians from all wakes of life have been stunned and disappointed by Abbas, who withdrew support for a vote in the U.N. Human Rights Council to have the Goldstone report sent to the General Assembly.
Lessons From the Palestinian Goldstone-Gate
Daoud Kuttab | Posted 10.08.2009 | World
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The decision to postpone discussions on the Goldstone report have been a political nightmare for Palestinian leadership. Do they need a lesson in leadership or just PR?
A Fast For Human Rights In Gaza
David A. Love | Posted 10.07.2009 | Impact
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There are many opinions on the Mideast conflict, but one thing is certain: the situation in Gaza is a humanitarian and human rights disaster, and it cannot continue.
PA's Goldstone block linked to tape
Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 10.06.2009 | Home
Report says Israeli video forced Palestinian Authority to delay vote on UN Gaza war report....
Last Straw for the Palestinian "Authority"?
Saree Makdisi | Posted 10.06.2009 | World
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This is the direction in which all Palestinians must throw themselves: the creation of one democratic and secular state in which Palestinians and Israelis can live equally in a just and lasting peace.
US 'pressured Abbas on UN report'
Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 10.03.2009 | Home
Outrage after Palestinian Authority backs delay in voting on Gaza war report....
Economic Self-Interest for Peace
Edgar M. Bronfman | Posted 09.30.2009 | World
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With the Gaza Strip still under Hamas rule, potential investors in the Palestinian Authority - the Arab states and international community - need to focus on improving conditions in the West Bank.
Obama's peace moves risk stoking Mideast strife
AP | STEVEN GUTKIN | Posted 09.24.2009 | Home
Rather than getting Israelis and Palestinians back to negotiations, President Barack Obama's high-stakes attempt to relaunch Mideast peace talks runs the risk of cementing Israeli intransigence and exacerbating Palestinian weakness.
A day after Obama hosted the Israeli and Palestinian leaders in New York, Israeli officials boasted that they had fended off U.S. pressure to halt settlement construction. Moderate Palestinians said they felt undermined by Obama's failure to back up his demand for a freeze – something Hamas militants were quick to exploit.
It has become clear in recent weeks that Obama has backed down on settlements after raising Palestinian hopes by saying in unusually blunt terms that all building must stop on lands the Palestinians claim for a future state.
That could seriously damage his credibility, especially in the Arab world. But it might also be a pragmatic realization that a protracted dispute with Israel over a single issue threatened to distract attention from his wider goal of getting the sides together to start drafting a final peace deal.
Obama may have had Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' predicament in mind when he outlined a tight timetable for upcoming diplomacy and chose particularly stern words to prod the sides to get serious. At one point in the three-way meeting on Tuesday, U.S. Mideast envoy George Mitchell said Obama told the two leaders: "The only reason to hold public office is to get things done."
Israel hails US call for talks without conditions
AP | STEVE WEIZMAN | Posted 09.24.2009 | Home
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has welcomed President Barack Obama's call at the U.N. for Israelis and Palestinians to resume peace talks without preconditions.
Palestinian leaders say there can be no negotiations without a complete halt to Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank. Netanyahu is proposing a partial and temporary slowdown.
In his U.N. speech Wednesday, Obama said, "America does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements."
Netanyahu told Israel Radio in a telephone interview from New York Thursday that even though he and Obama do not see eye-to-eye on settlements, "the president of the United States said unequivocally that is not an issue that should prevent the start of negotiations."
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