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Official response by the PLOto theMitchell report
INTRODUCTION
After careful review and analysis of the Final Report ("Report") of the Sharm El-Sheikh Fact Finding Committee ("Committee") submitted April 30, 2001, and in consultation with representatives of Palestinian civil society, the Palestine…
Statement on terrorism by Yasser Arafat, Cairo, November 7, 1985
The Palestinian people has and continues to struggle to liberate its occupied land, to exercise its right to self-determination, and to establish a state as a necessary condition for achieving a just and lasting peace in the region…
Speech by Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu to UN general assembly.
Source:JTA. Date: 23 September 2011
See also: speeches byMahmoud AbbasandBarack Obama
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Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Nearly 62 years ago, the United Nations recognized the right of the Jews, an ancient…
Statement read by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on behalf of the United States, the European Union, Russia and the United Nations (the "Quartet"), following a meeting on the Middle East situation
10 April 2002
We reviewed the escalating confrontation in the Middle East and agreed to coordinate…
Briton held in Yemen is not Muslim
by Brian Whitaker, Rory Carroll and Martin Bright
Originally published in The Observer, 31 January 1999
TWO OF THE Britons facing terrorist charges in Aden are not Islamic fundamentalists - and one is not even a Muslim, a high-level Yemeni source told The…
Limited agreement
by Brian Whitaker
Originally published in Middle East International, 3 March 1995
AT A MIDNIGHT ceremony in Mecca last weekend Yemen and Saudi Arabia took the first small step towards resolving their 60-year border dispute. A memorandum of understanding signed at the home of the…
Palestine National Council
Algiers, November 15, 1988. Official translation.
In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
In the valiant land of Algeria, hosted by its people and its President Chedli Benjedid, the Palestine National Council held its nineteenth extraordinary session – the…
Competition suits Salih
by Brian Whitaker
Originally published in Middle East International,16 July, 1999
THE NUMBER of would-be contenders in Yemen's first direct presidential election rose to nine last week as the country's fractious opposition parties failed to agree on a single candidate to…
Fragile union at mercy of outside forces
Originally published in The Guardian, 7 April 19 94
The two Alis have brought Yemen to the point of disintegration, but other countries are players in the game: North and south accused each other yesterday of massing troops on the border for a civil war.…
A summit meeting to begin implementing theroad mapwas held in Aqaba, Jordan, on 4 June 2003. Hosted by King Abdullah of Jordan, it was attended by President George Bush, Ariel Sharon (the Israeli prime minister) and Mahmoud Abbas (the Palestinian prime minister). Below is the text of the leaders'…
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
