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East Jerusalem Cafe Draws Customers From All Sides

JERUSALEM (Aug. 11) -- The tiny cafe on Ali Ibn Abu Taleb Street has fewer than a dozen tables, and you could walk past the small shop front without knowing it was there. But in the few short weeks since it opened, Dina's has become a key meeting place for the cognoscenti of East Jerusalem. It is the only place in town...

PLO Official Says Obama Sent Warning to Abbas

RAMALLAH, West Bank (July 31) -- A senior PLO official says President Barack Obama has warned Mahmoud Abbas in a letter that U.S.-Palestinian relations might suffer if the Palestinian leader refuses to resume direct peace talks with Israel. The White House has been pushing Abbas hard in recent days to move quickly to...

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Dovid Efune: Hamas and Fatah, Two Sides of the Same Coin

A hint at Hamas 'reconciliation' this week with rival group Fatah, sent some commentators scuttling to roll out the civilized world's red carpet.

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Salam Fayyad and Palestinian Reconciliation

Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said this week that he was quite happy to step down from his position in order to remove any obstacle in the way of Palestinian reconciliation.

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Josh Ruebner: Combat HIV/AIDS or Protect Israel's Denial of Palestinian Rights?

Now that Palestine has become a full member of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) after an exuberant 107-14 vote in its favor, two obscure sections of U.S. law may force the United States to rethink whether its unconditional support of Israel is in its best interests.

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Clarence B. Jones: The Israeli Palestinian Dispute Casts Ominous Shadow Over U.S. Domestic Politics

This week, Mahmoud Abbas, aka Abu Mazen, head of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) plans to come to New York and apply to the United Nations Security Council for the membership of Palestine as an independent nation State.

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Khaled Elgindy: Palestine Goes to the UN

Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority (PA) and chair of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), plans to call on the United Nations in September to admit a Palestinian state as a full member of the organization.

Background on PLO

The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) (; ) is a political and paramilitary organization which was created in 1964. It is recognized as the "sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people" by the United Nations and over 100 states with which it holds diplomatic relations, and has enjoyed observer status at the United Nations since 1974. The PLO was considered by the United States and Israel to be a terrorist organization until the Madrid Conference in 1991. In 1993, PLO recognized Israel's right to exist in peace, accepted UN Security Council resolutions 242 and 338, and rejected "violence and terrorism"; in response, Israel officially recognized the PLO as the representative of the Palestinian people.

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