Farouk Kaddoumi

AGAINST THE BACKDROP of the obstacles in the peace process between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA), pundits point to the enormous coalition…

GENEVA — Pro-Palestinian groups plan to sail a flotilla of boats through Israel's sea blockade of Gaza as early as February in the second such…

There was a 19 percent decrease during the last year in the number of road obstacles in the West Bank that prevent Palestinian movement, according to…

NEW YORK – More than 23,000 people have a signed a petition urging the US State Department to investigate passengers on the Mavi Marmara who are…

The IDF has identified one of the passengers aboard the Mavi Marmara , which navy commandos commandeered earlier this week, as the ringleader of a…

At the request of Turkey, the United Nations Security Council will be holding an emergency session on Monday evening to discuss today's incident in…

The summer of 2011. That is when Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad has scheduled the unveiling of the new and completely reformed,…

With Fatah, ruler of the Palestinian Authority (PA) and the PLO - in effect, Israel's Palestinian negotiating partner - planning to hold a rare…

Israel's goals have become clearer over the past decade, and our leaders more united around them. But that does not make their attainment more…

Against the relentless menace of Islamist terrorism, Westerners need to find a middle ground between a state of permanent - and unsustainable -…

An indictment will be served against Balad MK Said Nafa in the Nazareth District Court, Attorney-General Menahem Mazuz decided Sunday, for leading a…

Is Mahmoud Abbas becoming chairman Arafat? During the last two years of Yasser Arafat's failing rule of the Palestinian Authority and his bitter…

What happened at the Fatah congress? It was largely successful at maintaining the status quo, but the outcome is unlikely to be conducive to a…

The Fatah movement, the key Palestinian guerrilla movement within the Palestine Liberation Organization, has moved one step closer to becoming a…

Anyone familiar with the Arabian Nights tales knows they depict a reality comprised of layer upon shadowy layer, one concealed behind another.…

The Fatah conference's unanimous resolution Thursday to hold Israel responsible for the death of Yasser Arafat left Israeli officials annoyed and…

There's nothing all Israelis - no matter what their political inclinations - would like better than to receive a genuine message of reconciliation…

Fatah operatives expressed skepticism over the weekend that their faction's general conference, which is scheduled to convene in Bethlehem on…

A Fatah leader returned to the West Bank Wednesday after more than 40 years in exile. Mohammed Ghneim was one of Fatah's last holdouts in the…

Barring a last-minute change of plans, the PLO's largest and oldest faction, Fatah, is finally expected to hold its sixth general conference in…