The majority of UN members already recognize a Palestinian state. Some prominent Western states are following suit – but to what end?
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Ever since Bill Clinton helped create the Palestinian Authority successive US administrations have prevented it working properly.
The two sides got very close to a deal in the 1990s but have drifted apart since then.
Palestine remains the single issue on which South Africa’s support for a people’s struggle has been unquestionably consistent.
The keffiyeh’s prominence soared in the 1970s when Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, adopted and popularized the garment.
Dates that changed the course of history in what has been called ‘the world’s largest open-air prison’.
The Nobel Peace Prize has recognized some legendary leaders and peace activists, but it has a mixed track record of recognizing people who actually deserve the prize.
A famous gesture kick-started hopes of peace in the Middle East. But today, the idea of a two-state solution seems further away than ever before.
When Yasser Arafat and Yitshak Rabin shook hands on the White House lawn in September 1993 it looked as if Israel and Palestine might achieve a lasting peace. Three decades on this remains a dream.
For the first time, the United Nations will mark the commemoration of the displacement of 750,000 Palestinians from their homes in 1948.
Benjamin Netanyahu, is the latest in a line of Israeli prime ministers who have not engaged with the idea of Palestinian self-determination.
Donald Trump’s strong defence of Israel might be more boisterous than his predecessors, but it’s consistent with the anti-Palestinian policies by previous U.S. administrations.
In 1993 the Oslo Accords were struck in optimism, but a quarter of a century later little has changed - and there’s no real prospect it ever will.
The BBC’s former correspondent in Gaza reviews Donald Macintyre’s Gaza: Preparing for Dawn.
A scholar analyzes the history of the Nobel Peace Prize to ask: What difference has it made?
The emergence of the Joint List as the third-largest party is evidence of both Israeli democracy and a growing awareness among the nation’s Arab citizens of their power to influence its direction.
The awarding of a shared Nobel Peace Prize award to a 17-year-old Pakistani girl, Malala Yousafzai, and a 60-year-old Indian man, Kailash Satyarthi, is historic and aimed at conveying multiple messages…
Assassination has never changed the history of the world. The speaker was Benjamin Disraeli; the occasion, his address to parliament following the murder of Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth in 1865…
The remains of Yasser Arafat have been exhumed for “special testing” to determine whether he died from poisoning by a radioactive element or natural causes. Will the process be akin to what we see on television…
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