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Palestinians: Israel making peace talks impossible

Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 01.05.2010 | Home


A top Palestinian Authority official said Tuesday that he did not foresee a trilateral meet with Israel and Egypt in the near future, declaring that I...

Abbas and Netanyahu may meet later this month in Egypt

Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 01.01.2010 | Home


Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas later this month in the Egyptian resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh, g...

Court Lets Palestinians Use Major Israeli Highway

AP | AMY TEIBEL | Posted 12.30.2009 | World


JERUSALEM — Israel's Supreme Court ordered the military on Tuesday to allow Palestinians to travel on the part of a major highway that runs thro...

Abbas' West Bank is flourishing but Hamas is not worried

Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 12.18.2009 | Home


RAMALLAH - To an observer, it sometimes seems that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas knows something we don't. Otherwise, it's hard to explai...

Abbas to Haaretz: Peace possible in 6 months if Israel freezes all settlements

Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 12.16.2009 | Home


RAMALLAH - If Israel completely halts construction in the settlements, negotiations with the Palestinians on a final-status agreement can be completed...

Abbas: Peace possible in 6 months if Israel freezes all settlements

Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 12.16.2009 | Home


RAMALLAH - If Israel completely halts construction in the settlements, negotiations with the Palestinians on a final-status agreement can be completed...

Hamas predicts collapse of Abbas and his 'co-conspirators'

Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 12.13.2009 | Home


Anyone who wants to learn about the Palestinian Authority's effectiveness in handling security issues relating to Hamas' military and civil arms in th...

Jailed Fatah chief emerges as Palestinian presidential contender

The Independent | Independent | Posted 12.09.2009 | Home


Marwan Barghouti, the senior Fatah leader who could be set free in a prisoner swap with Israel, appears to be already testing the waters for a possib...

Netanyahu: PA has made strategic choice to delay peace talks

Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 12.09.2009 | Home


Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the Palestinian Authority on Wednesday of having chosen to postpone peace negotiations with Israel indefinit...

PM makes final push to foil Swedish initiative to divide Jerusalem

Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 12.05.2009 | Home


Israel and the Palestinian Authority are each lobbying European Union foreign ministers to adopt its respective position on Sweden's initiative...

U.S., Arab states press Abbas to stay on as president of PA

Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 12.03.2009 | Home


The United States and several Arab states are pressing Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to remain in office until new PA elections are ca...

Abbas: Netanyahu chose occupation over peace

Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 11.27.2009 | Home


Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas dismissed an Israeli plan to temporarily halt new construction of West Bank settlements as insufficient on Friday, sa...

Netanyahu proposes 10-month West Bank settlement freeze

WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 11.25.2009 | Home


Today, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu proposed a 10-month freeze on settlement construction. For more on the latest announcement, Martin Sa...

Palestinians under world pressure not to declare state unilaterally

Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 11.17.2009 | Home


The Palestinian Authority is coming under increasing pressure ­ from Israel and the international community ­to back down from its threat to unilate...

Report: Palestinians dedicate 'world's largest dress' to Yasser Arafat

Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 11.13.2009 | Home


Palestinian residents of Hebron displayed on Friday what they claimed was the world's largest dress, which the West Bank city's governor dedicated to ...

Report: Palestinians dedicate 'largest ever dress' to Yasser Arafat

Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 11.13.2009 | Home


Palestinian residents of Hebron displayed on Friday what they claimed was the world's largest dress, which the West Bank city's governor dedicated to ...

Mahmoud Abbas: Would He Quit This Time?

Peace Process | Posted 11.13.2009 | World


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


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


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


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...