January 21, 2011 - 12:30pm Leader confounds both sides with plans for Palestinian state
January 21, 2011

Fayyad says that a fully functioning state can arise only from the political process and that his goal is simply to be ready once an agreement is reached.

January 20, 2011 - 12:28pm Palestinians go to the UN
January 20, 2011

US Deputy Amb. Rosemary DiCarlo: "...continued settlement expansion is corrosive, not only to peace efforts and the two state solution but to Israel's future itself...permanent status issues can be resolved only through negotiations between the parties and not by recourse to the Security Council."

January 10, 2011 - 5:05pm Honesty and Hypocrisy in Facing Terrorism Appears in Arabic in An-Nahar
January 10, 2011

“Honesty and Hypocrisy in Facing Terrorism:” published in English in the Huffington Post and elsewhere, and in Arabic in the well-known Lebanese An-Nahar newspaper.

January 6, 2011 - 4:48pm A Third Way to Palestine
January 6, 2011

"But Fayyadism is helping support that effort and preparing the groundwork for peace and Palestinian statehood in a way that negotiations alone or armed struggle never could."

January 3, 2011 - 5:44pm Honesty and hypocrisy in facing terrorism
January 3, 2011

"The price of silence is prohibitive. The forces of fanaticism, violence and exclusion must not be allowed to prevail."

December 30, 2010 - 4:13pm A Holiday Appeal from Ziad Asali
December 30, 2010

Just hard work, day in and day out, on a compromise that simply seeks two peaceful and secure states, no more and no less. We stand FOR Palestine and not AGAINST Israel, for two-states but against the occupation.

December 30, 2010 - 2:16am Support Peace in the New Year
December 30, 2010

Support ATFP and support peace by making a tax deductible year end gift today.

December 21, 2010 - 10:21am Disillusioned Palestinians seeking new path
December 21, 2010

Salam Fayyad: "What we're looking for ... is a state of Palestine, we're not looking for yet another declaration of statehood...we're not looking for some form of self-rule, we're looking for a sovereign state of Palestine, where we Palestinians can live as free people."

December 20, 2010 - 12:57pm Giving up on an Israeli-Palestinian settlement is simply not an option
December 20, 2010

Ziad Asali in the Daily Star: "The United States, and the whole world, are helping the Palestinians build their state...The Palestinian state that will end the conflict is already on its way."

Tony Blair American Task Force on Palestine VIDEO: Tony Blair speaks at ATFP Event
December 16, 2010

THR Blair discussed the importance of state and institution building and peace negotiations in creating a viable Palestinian state. Click here for the video and transcript of his remarks.


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