Palestinians don’t expect much from Obama visit

Published on February 26, 2013

Palestinian officials hope the upcoming visit by President Barack Obama will end the current deadlock in the peace process, but are skeptical that the visit will change the situation on the ground.

Yasser Arafat planned the second intifada, his widow says

Published on December 31, 2012

Yasser Arafat planned the second intifada, his widow said in a television interview.

Jewish groups stake out opposing positions on penalizing Palestinians

Published on December 31, 2012

Two major Jewish groups are at odds over the prospect of penalties for the Palestinians in the wake of their enhanced U.N. status.

Congressional letter urges Obama to shut PLO office

Published on December 11, 2012

Incoming and outgoing leaders of the House Foreign Affairs Committee are circulating a letter calling on President Obama to close the Washington office of the PLO.

After U.N. vote, question is whether Palestinians will use it as a stick or an olive leaf

Published on November 30, 2012

How the United States treats the Palestinians’ new status as a non-member state at the United Nations depends on how Palestinians plan to use it -- as cudgel or outstretched hand.

AIPAC calls for review of U.S.-Palestinian ties

Published on November 29, 2012

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee called for a "full review" of the U.S. relationship with the Palestine Liberation Organization, including shutting its Washington office, in the wake of its obtaining non-member state status at the United Nations.

Meshaal: Palestinian unity will lead to mass protests

Published on December 23, 2011

Palestinian unity will spur mass popular protests against Israel, Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal said.

Hamas to join PLO in unity bid

Published on December 22, 2011

Hamas will join the Palestine Liberation Organization, a further step toward Palestinian unity.

Israel says Palestine upgrade at U.N. would be mistake

Published on August 31, 2011

Upgrading the Palestinians' U.N. status would be a "strategic mistake by the world", a senior Israeli official said on Wednesday, cautioning that Israel had prepared a slew of punitive and diplomatic responses.

Abbas tells Palestinians: Step up Arab Spring-style protests against Israel

Published on July 27, 2011

President Mahmoud Abbas urged Palestinians on Wednesday to step up peaceful protests against Israel, urging "popular resistance" inspired by the Arab Spring to back a diplomatic offensive at the United Nations.

New approach is needed on talks, PLO official says

Published on March 3, 2011

The PLO representative to Washington called for a new approach to solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, saying the two sides are far from resolution. “We are not close to ending this conflict,” the representative, Maen Rashid Areikat, said Wednesday at a kosher luncheon organized by New York University’s Taub Center for Israel Studies and the Berman Jewish Policy Archive at NYU’s Wagner School of Public Service.

PLO mission raises flag in D.C.

Published on January 18, 2011

The PLO office in Washington raised a flag for the first time. "It's about time that this flag that symbolizes the struggle of the Palestinian people for self-determination and statehood is raised in the United States," said Palestine Liberation Organization envoy Maen Areikat in a brief ceremony Tuesday outside its Dupont Circle offices. "We hope that this will help in the international efforts to provide recognition for the Palestinian state." The Obama administration granted the delegation, which does not have embassy status, permission to raise the flag last July.

Judge upholds $116 million lawsuit against PLO

Published on May 15, 2009

A U.S. judge will not rescind his decision ordering the PLO to pay $116 million to the family of victims of a terrorist attack.

VIDEO: Jewish voters targeted in ‘push polling’—RJC fesses up

Published on September 17, 2008

The Republican Jewish Coalition has admitted it sponsored a negative poll about Barack Obama.

Books: Nusseibeh ‘Once Upon a Country’ memoir ends in disillusionment

By Howard Kaplan
Published on September 8, 2007

The scion of an aristocratic Jerusalem family, Nusseibeh traces his roots back 1,300 years to one of the tribal leaders who joined Mohammad on his seventh century pilgrimage to Jerusalem.

Is a delay of justice a denial of justice?

By Douglas Mirell
Published on February 8, 2007

The government has been seeking to deport Hamide and Shehadeh since January 1987, based on their alleged support for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a radical offshoot of the Palestine Liberation Organization that has taken credit for airline hijackings and car bombings in the Middle East.

Iconic Italian journalist, Oriana Fallaci, 77

Published on September 21, 2006

Obituary for crusading Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci.

Optimistic? Yep.

By Rob Eshman
Published on July 19, 2006

The most remarkable aspect of the war Israel is fighting now in Lebanon is not who Israel's enemy is, but who its friends are.

Accord Was to Ensure Jewish Majority

By Yossi Beilin
Published on September 11, 2003

The Oslo agreement was the first agreement ever signed between the Israeli government and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), intended to put an end to the national struggle that is the heart of the larger Arab-Israeli conflict.

The Olso agreement was the natural continuation of the framework agreements signed at the 1978 Camp David summit between Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, which also provided the basis for the 1991 Madrid Conference.

At the United Nations

Published on December 11, 1997

In the last four years the people of Israel witnessed two contrasting realities in their pursuit of peace with the Palestinians. True, there had been a stunning series of diplomatic breakthroughs between Israel and the PLO, that was followed by apeace treaty with Jordan and a web of new relationships with a half dozen Arab states. Israelis were filled with hope that at long last their state of siege had ended and they could look forward to an era of normalcy and safety.

An Officer and a Peacenik

By Rob Eshman
Published on November 13, 1997

Retired Maj. Gen. Oren Shachor, former Israel Defense Forces chiefintelligence officer, held a field briefing for his subordinateofficers and field operatives last week at Cava restaurant on westThird Street.

Actually, it was just an interview with a Jewish journalist.