May 13 2013 - 10:47am Jets' Oday Aboushi is a rare Palestinian-American in NFL
May 13, 2013

Aboushi, drafted in the fifth round out after a standout career at the University of Virginia, is one of just a handful of players with Palestinian ethnic background.

May 10 2013 - 12:30pm El Salvador, Palestinian Authority establish diplomatic ties
May 10, 2013

Maliki said that Latin America and the Caribbean have expressed “very strong and clear solidarity with Palestine and the justice of its cause.” Maliki said that in the region, only Panama has not recognized nor established diplomatic ties with Palestine.

May 10 2013 - 12:29pm Paving the way to an indivisible Jerusalem
May 10, 2013

A new highway connecting Jewish neighborhoods in northern Jerusalem is the latest addition to a network of roads making a future division of the city increasingly unlikely.

May 10 2013 - 12:26pm Kerry, Abbas discuss peace talks by phone
May 10, 2013

Last week, Abbas said that the U.S. administration is trying to set a stage to resume the peace talks based on Israel's recognition of the principle of a two-state solution with slight exchange of lands. "If Israel accepts these principles, we will resume the direct peace talks," Abbas said.

May 9 2013 - 9:03am The invisibles: homosexuals in Palestine speak out about the unspeakable
May 9, 2013

“I really wish to have a political party to defend the rights of homosexuals. It seems impossible, but I hope we’ll have that one day. I also wish this story won’t be the last.”

May 9 2013 - 9:01am Palestinians say there's oil in West Bank
May 9, 2013

The British documents cite Norwegian consultants at Meged as saying "they could not be sure that any field extended below the West Bank. But the strong likelihood is that it did otherwise why drill so close to the Green Line."

May 9 2013 - 9:00am Former Palestinian fighter now battles for a middle path
May 9, 2013

Palestinian Mohammed Dajani, a former Fatah fighter from a prominent Jerusalem family, has become a vocal advocate for pragmatism and peace.

May 8 2013 - 12:09pm China Can Posture, but It Can’t Bring Peace to the Middle East
May 8, 2013

“China is not Colombia, of course. But neither is it Washington, or even Moscow. I don’t think China has the tools, it doesn’t have the connections, it doesn’t have the legacy of long-term involvement in the Middle East."

May 8 2013 - 12:08pm Children under 12 cannot be arrested
May 8, 2013

All who call for the violation of the rights of Palestinian child suspects must first consider whether they would consent to a similar violation of an Israeli child’s rights.

May 8 2013 - 12:06pm Settlement plans ‘obnoxious,’ says Czech foreign minister
May 8, 2013

Israeli plans to build in the controversial E1 corridor beyond the Green Line are “obnoxious” and an unnecessary provocation, Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg said during a visit to Jerusalem, criticizing the government’s declared settlement policy in unusually harsh terms.


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