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Europeans, and the French in particular, strong backers of Washington's efforts to broker a Mideast deal, are starting to register frustration with the White House's handling of Israel-Palestinian relations.

Whether he makes good on the pledge he made last night not to stand in next year's elections , or whether he is eventually persuaded to stay, the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, has had enough already.

It is not the first time Mahmoud Abbas has said he intends quitting as Palestinian leader.

Top Hamas leadership seems to be leaning towards Palestine while taking a tough stance against Israel, Khaled Meshaal proposed a peace offer to the Fatah faction of Palestinian leadership under president Mahmoud Abbas.

Hamas marked the 92nd anniversary of the infamous Balfour Declaration by recalling the misery of the 1948 Nakba and insisting that European states in general and Britain in particular make amends for the crimes committed against Palestine.

Leila Khaled became an instant icon of the Palestinian struggle in 1969, when at 24 she was an operative in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijacking of a Boeing 707, the first in a series of high-profile actions intended to put the Palestinians on the political map.

Arab U.N. delegates circulated a draft resolution on Monday that would require Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to bring a U.N. report alleging war crimes in the Gaza Strip before the Security Council.

Ageing politicians clinging to privilege by all means: this is the shameful theatre playing out on the Palestinian national scene,writes Hassan Nafaa * Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is not in an enviable position right now.

"Israeli police raid Aqsa compound" "Amnesty: the Zionist entity depriving Palestinians of water" "More than 4500 Palestinian prisoner in 2009" "Zionist Rabbis calls on Netanyahu government to close Al-Aqsa Masjid" "At dawn: Zionist warplanes bombed a building southern Gaza Strip" "Zionist settlers cut down 20 olive trees near Hebron" And thousands ...

Articles 03:12 10/24/2009 Robert Bernstein: Human Shield for Criticism of Israel Palestinians are routinely subjected to violence--often lethal--at the hands of the IDF.

Shara'a Simsim , the Palestinian version of the popular television program Sesame Street, will air its fourth season on Palestine TV in January 2010.

The bank executive sits in a suit and tie behind his broad empty desk with plenty of time to talk.

Following a day of clashes between security forces and Arab rioters in Jerusalem, Damascus-based Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal on Sunday evening stated that the fate of the capital would be determined by force, not negotiations.

After international human rights organizations accused Israel of killing innocent Palestinian "traffic policemen" during Operation Cast Lead, a detailed investigation shows that a decisive majority of the Palestinian "policemen" were members of the military wings of the Palestinian terror organizations and fighters who had undergone military ...

RAMALLAH // With more than 100,000 hits on YouTube and featured in an Al Jazeera discussion programme, a mock version of the first Palestinian national anthem has stirred controversy among Palestinians and caused fierce debates on online social networking sites.

Palestinian refugees reject 'sell-out' deal By Mahan Abedin BEIRUT - The latest tri-lateral Middle East peace talks have been overshadowed by the United Nations report by Richard Goldstone that accuses both Israel and Hamas of war crimes in Gaza and the candid remarks by Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman to the effect that there is no ...

Israeli-Arab journalist Khaled Abu-Toameh has been called a traitor for working for both Israeli and Palestinian publications.

THE fuss over the 'Goldstone Report' confirms that were it otherwise, the report would have been more pro-Israeli whitewash after gross human rights atrocities in Gaza.

Could Israel have done anything to avoid the apparent rupture of its relationship with Turkey? Could we have made it inconceivable for the Turks to air, on state television, a serial portraying the Palestinian-Israeli conflict as a struggle between sociopathic Zionists and wholesome Palestinians? No doubt, had Israel responded to the violent ...

The United Nations Human Rights Council's decision Friday to adopt the controversial Goldstone report on the Gaza war increases the pressure on Israel to conduct its own investigation into alleged war crimes.

The council voted 25-to-6, with 11 abstentions, to endorse the report, which calls for both Israel and Hamas to investigate its allegations within the next few months. If either side fails to comply - and Israel has so far refused to do so - the report calls for the UN Security Council to take up the matter and consider referring it to the UN's International Criminal Court.