January 19, 2012 - 11:44am UN Security Council to meet on Jewish settlements next week
January 19, 2012

The UN Security Council will hold an open session next week to discuss Israeli settlement activities in occupied Palestinian territories, a Palestinian envoy said Thursday.

January 19, 2012 - 11:40am Fayyad calls for national debate on PA financial crisis
January 19, 2012

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad on Wednesday called for a national debate on the financial situation facing the West Bank-based government.

January 18, 2012 - 3:29pm Ziad Asali in the Daily Star: Arabs deserve a party of the citizen
January 18, 2012

"A movement of citizens, expressed in organized political parties with clearly articulated programs, would tap into the patriotic and ecumenical grassroots protest movements and ensure that a historic opportunity for progress is not squandered."

January 9, 2012 - 11:58am Palestinians' Hamas, Fatah hurl recriminations weeks after shaking hands
January 9, 2012

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah Party and its rival Islamic movement Hamas recriminated each other on Saturday over Hamas' bar against a Fatah delegation from entering the Gaza Strip.

January 9, 2012 - 11:56am How to break a Middle East stalemate
January 9, 2012

Dennis Ross in the Washington Post: "Dan Meridor, one of Israel’s four deputy prime ministers, said to me years ago that “the peace process is like riding a bicycle: When you stop pedaling, you fall off.” And currently, the Israelis and Palestinians have stopped pedaling."

January 9, 2012 - 11:51am Fayyad: Govt raises tax, cutting costs to plug deficit
January 9, 2012

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad is cutting spending and raising taxes in an attempt to plug the $1.1 billion deficit in the public budget, he told reporters in Ramallah on Sunday evening.

January 3, 2012 - 2:14pm Hamas: Peaceful resistance not applicable to Gaza
January 3, 2012

Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahhar has cast doubt his party will take up peaceful resistance against Israel as advocated by former rivals Fatah.

January 3, 2012 - 1:17pm Palestinians and Israelis Will Talk This Week
January 3, 2012

Palestinian and Israeli negotiators plan to meet for the first time in more than a year in Jordan on Tuesday, in an effort to revive moribund peace talks

January 3, 2012 - 1:07pm Interview with Salam Fayyad: To Act and Not to Fall
January 3, 2012

In an interview with Yedioth Ahronoth, PM Fayyad asserts that Palestinians have proven they are ready for independence, saying, "We have proved that we can govern ourselves. The world understands that we deserve a state.”

December 22, 2011 - 4:23pm ACP delivers first installment of funds for "Operation Restore Vision in Palestine"
December 22, 2011

ACP has pledged commitment to fund 1,000 sight-saving cataract surgeries at St. John’s in Jerusalem for the otherwise blind men and women of Palestine; this is a $330,000 intiative.


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