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An official denial has been issued quashing "malicious rumours" that Egypt is putting pressure on Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to resume negotiations with the Israelis. In a written statement,...
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The Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) has called on Denmark to support the Palestinian Authority's decision to go the UN this month in order to obtain full membership as a...
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The head of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation's culture and media section has said that ending Israel's 44-year occupation of the Palestinian territories is the only way to guarantee the...
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Sources in Palestine say that the Islamic Jihad faction has claimed that the resignation of the Palestinian Authority's Chief Negotiator Saeb Erekat's "proves the failure of the negotiations approach...
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An official report issued by the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) has stated that in 2010, the Israeli authorities stepped up measures aimed at the judaisation of the Occupied Palestinian...
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A new economic report has revealed that there are now more Palestinians than Jews in the territory under Israel's jurisdiction between the Mediterranean Sea and the River Jordan. Published...
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The Palestinian leadership and Ministry of Finance have frozen the budgets of all of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation's factions, led by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine....
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Sources close to the President of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, claim that he is angry with the failure of Arabic and Islamic states to support his plan to...
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The Palestinian Liberation Organisation has appealed to the international community to intervene with the Israeli government for the release of Hana Al Shalabi, who has been on hunger strike...
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The Israeli occupation authorities have issued around 100,000 administrative detention orders against Palestinians since 1967, according to an official report issued by the Public Relations section of the Palestinian...
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A senior member of Fatah's Central Committee, Nabil Shaath, has told the media that the meeting last Saturday between a delegation from his organisation and the Prime Minister of...
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The State of Israel killed 180 Palestinians in 2011, including 21 children. These shocking figures were given in a report issued by the Palestinian Liberation Organisation entitled, "A People...
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Sources in Ramallah have revealed that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, in his capacity as the head of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation's Executive Committee, has dismissed Yasser Abed Rabbo...
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A senior Fatah official has said that he expects Hamas to win "an overwhelming majority" in the Palestinian Liberation Organisation elections if they are carried out in a free...
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A spokesman for the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, has denied reports of disagreements over security agencies during the reconciliation talks with Fatah. Sami Abu Zuhri dismissed the claims as...
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President Mahmoud Abbas has decreed that the Palestinian Authority will start to issue passports, identity cards, vehicle licences and postage stamps emblazoned with the name "State of Palestine". An...
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The Palestinian Authority has called for the killers of Khalil Al-Wazir to be brought to justice. Known by his nom de guerre Abu Jihad, Al-Wazir was assassinated 25 years...
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The Palestinian Liberation organisation (PLO) on Thursday called for athletes to boycott the 2013 Israeli marathon in Jerusalem calling it "a racist event which alludes to occupied Jerusalem being...
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A member of the Executive Committee of the PLO, Saeb Erekat, said on Wednesday that the persistent tragedy of the Palestinian people for 65 years is a...
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The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) criticised on Sunday the Czech Republic's plan to move its embassy from Tel-Aviv to occupied Jerusalem. The OIC warned that this would affect...
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Reports in the Israeli media claim that around 100,000 American Jews have signed a petition to be presented to President Barak Obama, asking him to use the US veto...
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More than half of the members of the US Congress House of Representatives have urged President Obama to shut down the office of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation in Washington...
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Dr Hanan Ashrawi, a member of the Executive Committee and Chairperson of the Department of Culture and Information for the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO), has condemned the continued arrest...
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January 25, 2014
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Oraib Al-Rantawi
The meeting in Cairo between Mahmoud Abbas and Khaled Meshaal can be best described as "an important step in the right direction", not least because reconciliation between Fatah and...
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January 25, 2014
Bilal Hassan
There are no Palestine-Israel negotiations being held at the moment because Israeli preconditions kill them before they begin. The Palestinian side doesn't have any alternative to offer instead of...
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January 25, 2014
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Yassir Zaatreh
Once again Muhammad Rashid has returned to the forefront of the political scene, first through programmes on satellite television under the title "political memory", and second through the Palestinian...
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January 25, 2014
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Oraib Al-Rantawi
From a strategic point of view, the reform of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) is the most important issue for the parties to Palestinian reconciliation. However, it is the...
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January 25, 2014
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Dr Mohsen M. Saleh
An analysis of the experience of the Palestine Liberation Organisation The existence of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) is an achievement to be proud of. It expressed the Palestines'...
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January 25, 2014
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Abdel Bari Atwan
The history books will record November 2012 as the month in which the Palestinian people achieved three major victories which could change the power equations in the region: The...
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January 25, 2014
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Nabil Al-Sahli
The plight of Palestinian detainees being held by Israel has an important place in the general framework of the Palestinian national cause because it has affected a huge number...