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Yasser Arafat's speech to the UN General Assembly, 13 December 1988. Delivered in Arabic.
Mr President and members: It never occurred to me that my second meeting since 1974 with this esteemed assembly would take place in the hospitable city of Geneva. I believed that with the new position and…
Report of the Sharm el-Sheikh Fact-Finding Committee
Full text of the report completed on April 30, 2001 and published on May 20, 2001
Summary of recommendations
Introduction
Discussion
What Happened?
Why Did it Happen?
End the Violence
Rebuild Confidence
Resume Negotiations
Recommendations…
Yasser Arafat's speech to the UN Security Council. Extraordinary session convened in Geneva, May 25, 1990 (extract).
... Mr President, the Palestine Liberation Organisation, which affirms its strategic commitment to peace, submits to your august body the following practical steps which will make…
Presented by the Palestinian delegation to the Israelis during the peace talks in Washington, January 1992.
The Palestinian side believes that the following broad outline of the shape of the Interim Palestinian Self-Government can form the basis of negotiations at this stage, after taking the…
The "road map" for peace in the Middle East was drawn up by the United States, the European Union, Russia and the United Nations (the "Quartet"). President George Bush formally submitted it to the Israelis and Palestinians on 30 April 2003 (seepresidential statementandIsraeli reservations).
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Statement by President George Bush in the Rose Gardenof the White House
4 April 2002
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Good morning. During the course of one week, the situation in the Middle East has deteriorated dramatically. Last Wednesday, my Special Envoy, Anthony Zinni, reported to me that we were on the verge of a…
Comments by Palestinian negotiators on the Zinniceasefire proposal, 26 March 2002.
The Palestinian team included Mohammed Dahlan, Jibril Rajoub, Saeb Erekat and lawyers from the Negotiations Affairs Department.
I. Summary of Second US Proposal
The second US Proposal has not addressed any of the…
Israeli-Palestinian ceasefire and security plan, proposed by CIA director George Tenet, which took effect on 13 June 2001
The security organizations of the Government of Israel (GOI) and of the Palestinian Authority (PA) reaffirm their commitment to the security agreements forged at Sharm el-…
Speech by Yasser Arafat to the UN General Assembly in New York, 13 November, 1974. This is often referred to as the "gun and olive branch" speech.
In the name of the people of Palestine and the leader of its national struggle, the Palestine Liberation Organization, I take this opportunity to…
Algiers, November 15, 1988
Palestine, the land of the three monotheistic faiths, is where the Palestinian Arab people was born, on which it grew, developed and excelled. The Palestinian people was never separated from or diminished in its integral bonds with Palestine. Thus the Palestinian Arab…
ARAB ART ONLINE: Susan Hefuna: Al Sabr Gamil (Patience is Beautiful) 2007. Ink stained on wood 140 x 170 cm. More information | Click to enlarge
