Both sides need leaders who are brave enough to tell us the hard truth that this is a conflict that can only be lost, not won ...

Late on Monday night, a spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas reportedly declared 2025 “the year of the establishment of an independent Palestinian state”. The comment by Deputy ...

French judges investigating claims that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was murdered have closed ... that were given to his widow after his death, and found "abnormal levels of polonium." ...

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's widow says extensive investigation by French scientists has ruled out poisoning by radioactive polonium. Scientists from several countries have tried to ...

A defiant Yasser Arafat emerged from his shattered headquarters today at the end of a month-long Israeli siege, flashing a V-for-victory sign to cheering supporters. The Palestinian president ...

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The two-state solution is dead. Or, at the very least, it has been reduced to the one and a half state solution. But then the other Palestinian half is likely to be killed off in the next few weeks. T ...

Washington's Middle East envoy met Yasser Arafat on Friday under the guns of ... Bush pressed Israel to end its fierce, one week-old campaign. The death toll mounted, with 10 Palestinians killed ...

has died. She was 78 and counted Yasser Arafat and the Dalai Lama among her interviews.

The death threats, as well as heated rhetoric ... a peace accord with the Palestine Liberation Organization led by Yasser Arafat. “The fact that because of a democratic process, public officials ...