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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas heads a fractured government and a fractured political party. His term expired four months ago. His handpicked prime minister, trusted to manage billions of dollars in foreign aid, is reviled by some...
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Besides blocking access to food and construction to Palestinians in the Gaza Stripe - and even to a lesser degree in the West Bank - Israel also prevents Palestinians...
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Bassam Eid is the founder and director of the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group (PHRMG) based in east Jerusalem. It’s a thankless job and he’s between a...
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The false claim that Israel is the only established democracy in the Middle East never rings more hollow when one considers how Israel treats Palestinians in general...
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Yusif Bedas was part of that generation of Palestinians who were supposed to lead a renaissance in the Arab world. The son of a prominent Palestinian Christian writer,...
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“The Yes Men” have developed somewhat of a cultural following. The act is simply: impersonate the CEOs of corporations engaging in malfeasance in order to...
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Every Fourth of July, U.S. embassies around the world open their doors to world dignitaries inviting them to a celebration of American independence.
The U.S. embassy...
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The “only democracy in the Middle East” routinely arrests Palestinian children and detains them with no charges. And when it does often charge them, the...
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The international community has condemned the military coup against Honduras’ president. The United States and the Organization for American States has called for...
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This is why Israel is an immoral nation that deserves no right to exist:
A West Bank checkpoint managed by a private security company is not allowing Palestinians to...
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French President Nicholas Sarkozy’s blunt speaking has finally uttered something right: get rid of fascist Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman.
While...
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Ali Qarmoot will not make the New York Times or the Washington Post. He is not a child who can be forgotten by the Western media for he was never noticed in the first...
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Maybe these are the Palestinians who should be negotiating with the Israeli government, not Hamas or Fatah.
Palestinians want to build settlements
By Khaled Abu...
made popular Jun 29 2009
As a sincere classical liberal, I am not the biggest fan of what Neomi Klein has to say. But on Palestine, her and I are soul mates.
Klein wrote a piece in The Nation...
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This killer thug will receive a slap on the wrist:
The Jewish youth, Vitaly Sayenko, 18, made a decision to kill Karuwani for no other reason than that Karuwani was...
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Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani spoke on al-Jazeera recently and stated that an unidentified businessman sought to buy the popular Arabic-language news...
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British celebrities lined up to support Palestinian refugees and their cause at London’s Cafe de Paris on June 18.
The annual Hoping Foundation event was...
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Barack Obama has put usually pressure for an American president on Israel to stop all illegal settlement building on Palestinian. This has created a public rift for the...
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An Israeli woman has been denied public benefits for years all for the “crime” of marrying a Palestinian man and visiting him in the occupied West Bank....
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While the world’s attention is focused on Iran, the Palestinians of Gaza - all 1.5 million of them - continue to suffer at the hands of a cruel and...
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Israel’s occupation troops have been instructed by the government to protect Palestinians from the routine attacks they and their property suffer at the hands of...
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Everyone had high hopes that Barack Obama, and his foreign policy team, would somehow miraculously broker peace between Palestine and Israel, because Obama, after all,...
made popular Mar 2 2009
AP, Ramallah
With Hamas weakened by Israel’s Gaza offensive, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is trying to regain a foothold in the territory he lost to the Islamic...
made popular Jan 5 2009
AP, Ramallah
In four years as Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas has traveled to the far corners of the earth, but never set foot in the West Bank’s largest city, Hebron.
made popular Dec 22 2008
AP, Washington
President George W. Bush will host Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at the White House Friday, another farewell visit for the U.S. leader.
made popular Dec 16 2008
AP, Ramallah
A top aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says Abbas will attend power-sharing talks with Hamas in Egypt next month.
made popular Oct 29 2008
AP, Washington
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is meeting with President Bush next week for talks on Mideast peace despite fading hopes for a deal this year.
made popular Sep 19 2008
AP, Cernobbio
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas pledged Friday to try to reach a final status peace agreement with Israel by the end of the year _ but he admitted the goal, set by...
made popular Sep 5 2008
Israel will release about 150 Palestinian prisoners, including perhaps a couple of prominent ones, at the end of this month as a gesture to Palestinian President...
made popular Aug 7 2008
AP, Ramallah
It’s back-to-back bad news for Mahmoud Abbas: Israel has stepped up army raids in West Bank cities, further embarrassing the moderate Palestinian leader, and...
made popular Jul 27 2008
AP, Ramallah
A debate over when Mahmoud Abbas’ term expires is threatening the Palestinian president’s ability to head off a permanent split between Gaza and the West...
made popular Jul 8 2008
AP, Jerusalem
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will insist Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pressure Israel to stop settlement construction when they meet this week, an aide to...
made popular Jun 14 2008
AP, Ramallah
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called Wednesday for new dialogue with Hamas, in what appeared to be an about-face after insisting for a year that he would not talk...
made popular Jun 4 2008
AP, Ramallah
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is calling for dialogue with Hamas after insisting for months that the militants give up control of the Gaza Strip first.He says...
made popular Jun 4 2008
AP, Jerusalem
An aide says the Palestinian president has successfully undergone an angioplasty at a Jordanian hospital.Spokesman Nabil Abu Rdeneh says Mahmoud Abbas underwent the...
made popular May 1 2008
AP, Washington
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says he failed to achieve any progress in Middle East peace talks with President Bush and he’s returning home with little to...
made popular Apr 25 2008
AP, Washington
The White House says President Bush is inviting Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas to the White House in an effort to advance Mideast peace talks.The plan was...
made popular Mar 27 2008
AP, Ramallah
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Wednesday he would not resume peace talks until Israel reaches a truce in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.The declaration...
made popular Mar 5 2008
AP, Ramallah
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Wednesday he would not resume peace talks until Israel reaches a truce in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.The declaration...
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After initial kinks and hiccups, the Annapolis peace talks concluded while we in Palestine were never optimistic about US backed move that once again highlighted...
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