Yasser Arafat planned the second intifada, his widow says
Yasser Arafat planned the second intifada, his widow said in a television interview.
Yasser Arafat planned the second intifada, his widow said in a television interview.
Two major Jewish groups are at odds over the prospect of penalties for the Palestinians in the wake of their enhanced U.N. status.
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.
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.
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.
Palestinian unity will spur mass popular protests against Israel, Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal said.
Hamas will join the Palestine Liberation Organization, a further step toward Palestinian unity.
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.
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.
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.