Palestinian statehood

The Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council, Aziz Duwaik, has criticized the Palestinian Authority for going to the United Nations in a bid for independent Palestinian statehood without making...

On Friday the United States and Israel lost their right to vote in UNESCO after failing to give clarification about suspending their contribution to the cultural international organisation, an...

Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat revealed on Friday that the US president Barack Obama considers the Palestinian Authority's (PA) application to the UN for non-member state as crossing all...

From a Palestinian perspective, we are at an all-time low. The peace talks are dead, Netanyahu is likely to be re-elected, unilateral annexation is threatened, reconciliation talks have stalled...

Britain's Foreign Secretary, William Hague, read a government statement to the House of Commons on Tuesday in which he called for an urgent de-escalation of the current violence in...

After protests calling for the removal of dictatorial regimes broke out across the Arab world, Palestinians echoed them with their own protests.  However, they were not calling for the...

The United States must support the Palestinian bid for statehood at the United Nations this month or risk losing the little credibility it has in the Arab world. If...