Yasser Arafat

Trump’s Gaza peace plan officially entering Phase II, Witkoff announces

The interim governing body for Gaza will have 15 members, according to Witkoff, though their names have not been confirmed. It remains unclear how Hamas will be disarmed as required by the plan.

US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff speaks at the weekly rally at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv, October 11, 2025.
 THE FAMOUS handshake: Prime minister Yitzhak Rabin seals the deal with PLO leader Yasser Arafat as US president Bill Clinton admires his handiwork, at the White House upon the signing of the Oslo Accords, Sept. 13, 1993.

Palestinians must renounce culture of deception for real peace with Israel - opinion

US SPECIAL ENVOY to the Middle East Steve Witkoff: It is clear that the legitimization of Hamas as a serious and recognized negotiating partner is underway and perhaps has already been completed, the writer charges.

Gaza today is repeat of 1982 Beirut: Washington is legitimizing Hamas just like the PLO - opinion

Yasser Arafat raises his hand as he declares an independent Palestinian state during the PNC meeting in Algiers. November 15, 1988.

On This Day: Yasser Arafat, PNC, announce Palestinian Declaration of Independence in Algiers


Yasser Arafat’s legacy: The death of Palestinian statehood - analysis

In many ways, the failure of the Palestinian cause in the last two decades is a result of the decisions of Arafat during the ten years he presided over the Palestinian Authority.

THEN-PALESTINIAN Authority head and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat gestures during a speech in Ramallah, 2004.

We must confront forces of destruction with all our power - opinion

In a reflection on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the writer delves into the numerous peace initiatives that have been proposed and consistently rejected by Arab and Palestinian leaders.

 PLO chairman Yasser Arafat shakes hands with Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin as US president Bill Clinton stands between them, after the signing of the Oslo Peace Accords at the White House on September 13, 1993.

The Palestinian Authority's diplomatic war continues - editorial

The upcoming UN General Assembly resolution on Israel, expected to pass, reflects the ongoing international bias against Israel and the Palestinians' strategy of pursuing symbolic victories.

Permanent Observer for the State of Palestine to the UN, Riyad Mansour attends a United Nations Security Council meeting about the Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza, at the UN headquarters in New York City, US, September 4, 2024.

What is Biden's true goal for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? - opinion

Democrats still maintain the only solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the two-state solution, but President Joe Biden hasn’t authored his own peace proposal.

 US PRESIDENT Joe Biden and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Jeddah, in 2022: Biden and his senior staff are motivated by a vision of a two-state solution combined with a Saudi-Israeli normalization deal that puts them in history books forever, the writer argues.

'Palestine depends on destruction of Israel,' says Green Prince at 'Post' Conference

Mossab Hassan Yousef, son of a Hamas co-founder, argues that Palestine’s existence depends on Israel's destruction and criticizes the Palestinian Authority's threat to Israel.

 Museb Hassan Yousef, also known as the Green Prince, seen at the Jerusalem Post Annual Conference in New York on June 3, 2024

Ireland & Palestine - A brief history

The Irish nationalist movement has long viewed the Palestinian cause through a similar lens of seeking to overthrow what they see as oppressive colonizers and achieve independent statehood.

 A view of a mural in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in the Nationalist area along the International Wall on the Falls Road in Belfast, Northern Ireland, November 4, 2023

The heart of Gaza’s terror problem - opinion

Don’t expect the UN to make these organizations work with the institutions of the West. They have always been the heart of the problem in the Middle East – not the solution.

 THOMAS WHITE, director of UNRWA affairs in Gaza, speaks to the media in the central Gaza Strip, in November. UNRWA was tailor-made by the UN to keep the Palestinian refugee issue alive, not to fix the problem, the writer asserts.

Hamas's Yahya Sinwar set for 'Arafat-style' exile from Gaza - report

According to the report, Israeli officials have floated the idea of allowing Sinwar to "leave like [Yasser] Arafat left Lebanon."

 HAMAS MONSTER Yahya Sinwar, instrumental in the Oct. 7 attacks, was the recipient of lifesaving brain surgery at Israel's Shamir Medical Center in 2004.

Palestinian demilitarization is just a myth - opinion

My conclusion is that demilitarization is a myth. In any territory evacuated by Israel, it is neither possible to enforce nor reasonable to expect that.

 ARMED PALESTINIANS show their presence in Tulkarm, in the West Bank, last week. Demilitarization is a myth; it is neither possible to enforce nor reasonable to expect in any territory evacuated by Israel, says the writer.

Oslo protocols declassified: Rabin doubted Palestinian elections

Israel's national archives released the protocols of a 1993 government meeting on the Olso Accords, led by then prime minister Yitzhak Rabin.

 THE 1993 OSLO Accords between Israel and the PLO were signed in Washington, with a beaming president Bill Clinton presiding over the White House ceremony