Ahead of the battle over who will succeed him, Abu Mazen is using a series of decisions on appointments and candidacies taken recently at the Fatah Central Committee to appoint loyalists and allies to senior positions; these appointments are expected to be approved by the PLO’s Central Council
At a conference in Istanbul last week, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh expressed his gratitude for the role that Turkey is playing in the advancement of the Palestinian cause.
The land to the east of the Mediterranean has gone by many names, all of them designed to make a political point.
In this essay, Philip Mendes argues that the new buzzword for Palestinian nationalists, ‘Progressive except for Palestine,’ aimed at progressives who do not support fundamentalist calls for the abolition of the State of Israel, is ‘not a perspective which seeks to advance principled reasonable criticism of Israel.
PA Min. of Educ. to kids: There is no Israel, “the entire land is ours, from the Sea to the River”, Palestinian Media Watch
According to “direct orders and instructions” from PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, the PA has established over 100 Palestinian embassies around the world.
Under fire over the death of a prominent critic, facing dwindling popularity and smarting from the latest cancellation of long-overdue national elections, Palestinian Authority leaders are touting an upcoming local vote as an expression of democratic vigor in the hope it will soothe bubbling frustrations.
In the imagination of the Christian West, Jews have been forced to fill every role.
The reforms in the import of manufactured goods and agricultural produce included in the proposed Arrangements Law in Israel are expected to benefit Palestinian consumers.
