November 8, 2011 - 3:32pm Click to hear about Rawabi!
November 8, 2011

Listen to Bashar Masri speak about building the first modern Palestinian planned community, and what it means for the Palestinian bid for statehood.

November 4, 2011 - 5:11pm Is Hamas Moderating?
November 4, 2011

Top Palestinian negotiator Nabil Shaath, a key member of the Fatah Party started by Yasser Arafat, says his rivals inside Hamas appear to be moderating their positions and could be moving toward a deal for a unified government.

November 4, 2011 - 5:08pm Ban Ki-moon: Palestinian membership of UN agencies is 'not beneficial'
November 4, 2011

The UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, has said Palestinian efforts to join other United Nations agencies beyond its cultural arm are "not beneficial for Palestine and not beneficial for anybody".

October 31, 2011 - 1:26pm Palestine joins UNESCO as full member
October 31, 2011

The UN's cultural agency voted to admit Palestine as a full member on Monday, weeks before the Security Council is due to report on Palestine's bid for full membership of the United Nations.

October 31, 2011 - 1:23pm Tensions high a day after Gaza violence
October 31, 2011

The day after a series of Palestinian rocket attacks and Israeli airstrikes killed nine militants in the Gaza Strip and an Israeli civilian in southern Israel, strikes Sunday appeared to thin out, though tensions remained high.

October 21, 2011 - 1:09pm Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sends ATFP letter for its Sixth Annual Gala
October 21, 2011

Click here to view the text of the Secretary's letter

October 20, 2011 - 3:42pm T.H. Amb. David Hale, U.S. Special Envoy for Middle East Peace reads a letter from Sec. Clinton to ATFP
October 20, 2011

Click here to see the full text, read at ATFP's 6th Annual Gala.

October 20, 2011 - 3:13pm ATFP Gala Featuring PM Fayyad Highlights Quest for Peace, Palestinian-American Achievements
October 20, 2011

In his keynote address, PM Salam Fayyad said, "All we Palestinians are looking for is a viable, sovereign state on 22% of the land. That's what we want.

October 14, 2011 - 2:22pm The raison d'être of the American Task Force on Palestine
October 14, 2011

The role and purpose of the Task Force is sometimes still misunderstood, click here to read who we are, what we do and why.

October 12, 2011 - 12:18pm US: Mideast Quartet seeks October 23 talks
October 12, 2011

The Mideast Quartet seeking a peace settlement in the Middle East has called for Israel and the PLO to resume their talks on October 23 in Jordan, a US official said Tuesday.


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