For Ibtisam Barakat, the journey from a Palestinian refugee camp to Columbia, Mo., meant leaving behind family.
(RTTNews) - Media sources Saturday reported that Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas installed an interim government of moderates in an effort to consolidate his control of the West Bank. However, the militant outfit Hamas held a special session of the parliament in protest of the establishment of the new government, calling it illegal and unconstitutional.
A closed china company in East Palestine comes alive. East Palestine China closed in May of 2006, but has opened under new ownership as East Palestine China Decorating.
LAKE PALESTINE - Continuous rainfall is keeping East Texas lakes full but is keeping the usual summer crowds away. It's a second round of bad news for lakeside business owners.
The UAE Red Crescent Authority spent $68m on humanitarian and relief work outside the country in 2006, WAM reports. The RCA has recently carried out relief programmes worth $20m in 35 countries, predominantly in Lebanon, Somalia, Iraq and Palestine.
We all know what “divide and conquer” is all about. It is a strategy Israel has deployed over the last couple of decades, if not to exactly conquer, but to effectively pacify the people they conquered in 1967–allowing them to continue pursuing their strategic, expansionist and cultural interests. But the responsibility must also be divided, because if the Palestinians' so-called government ...
The solution, for Israel, is not to create another collaborator. The solution - despite new excuses to avoid it - remains what it has always been: real Palestinian sovereignty over all the lands conquered in 1967.
Will Hamas-Fatah fighting undermine Palestinian desire for statehood? The state of emergency imposed by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas after Hamas' Gaza takeover expired on Saturday.
Palestinian leaders asked Israel to let a 72-year-old former terrorist visit Ramallah next week for a key Palestine Liberation Organization meeting.
THE emergence of two blocs, a Hamas bloc centred in Gaza, and a Fatah alternative in the West Bank, each claiming to be the authentic Palestinian state presents SA with a foreign policy dilemma. Which should it recognise?