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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. "The president insists on not running in the...

Israel's Prime Minister has accused the Palestinian President of "blatantly distorting known historical facts" about the Nakba and the 1948 war in an op-ed in the New York Times...

Informed sources in Palestine have revealed that disagreements have arisen between the Swiss and French, on one side, and Palestinian security and medical teams on the other, regarding the...

In a long TV interview on Thursday, senior Israeli politician Yossi Beilin called on the Palestinian President to get rid of the Oslo agreement because "it destroyed Palestinians". Beilin...

Following a programme broadcast by Aljazeera which raised questions about the manner of his death, the League of Arab States has begun the process to open investigation into the...

Israel has issued an official denial of any involvement in the murder of the late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, after tests conducted by a prestigious Swiss laboratory showed the...

The Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, has backed off from a meeting with Shaul Mofaz, Israel's Deputy Prime Minister and the leader of the Kadima Party, scheduled to be held...

The Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation has accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of failing to provide clear answers to the issues which are disrupting the peace...

Israel Radio has claimed that the Israeli occupation authorities have issued special permits to the heads of the Palestinian security services and officials in the Palestinian Authority, rather than...

Just one week separates two recent statements by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, each of which contradicts the other. He hinted in his first statement to a "conditional acceptance" of...

By Ali Badwan European complaints about their exclusion from the current Middle East peace process have come rather late. For many years the United States effectively marginalized major international...