Palestinian Liberation Organization

Palestinian Authority prime minister resigns

2013-04-13 13:50:00

JERUSALEM -- Embattled Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad resigned late Saturday after struggling for years against political rivals and lackluster public support. Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who in recent months had also clashed...

Abbas needs an heir apparent

2013-02-28 00:00:00

President Obama's visit to the Middle East next month is widely billed as an earnest attempt to double down on diplomacy and revive the moribund peace process between the Israelis and Palestinians. Unfortunately, the odds are stacked against the...

Said Musa Maragha dies at 86; Arafat ally became an enemy

2013-01-29 19:09:00

Said Musa Maragha, a Palestinian military commander who rose through the ranks of the Palestine Liberation Organization to become a trusted lieutenant of PLO leader Yasser Arafat, then broke away to lead Syrian-backed Palestinian rebels who besieged...

'The New Republic' by Lionel Shriver

2012-03-25 00:00:00

It takes guts to write a satire about terrorism — and Lionel Shriver has guts. She has already published biting novels about the failings of the U.S. healthcare system ("So Much for That") and a school shooter ("We Need to Talk About Kevin")....

Palestinians vow cooperation in Cairo unity talks but gaps remain

2011-12-22 16:37:53

Kinsley: Middle East states of mind

2011-12-13 00:00:00

In November 1947, shortly after the United Nations voted for partition of the Holy Land into separate Arab and Jewish states, Chaim Weizmann was cited by the New York Times as saying that "the most important work now was to build Palestine." What? To...

The danger of politicizing textbooks

2011-10-25 16:35:18

PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES: Abbas not deterred by U.S. threats regarding Palestinian state recognition

2011-07-27 16:32:33

Who made the cut for Obama's third Ramadan Iftar dinner

2011-08-10 21:37:08

PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES: Legal opinion muddies U.N. statehood bid

2011-09-03 16:32:33

Weekend Talk Shows

2011-09-16 16:36:01

Rick Perry on Obama's Israel policy: 'Naive, arrogant, misguided and dangerous'

2011-09-20 21:37:01

Said Musa Maragha, shown in 2010 and known as Abu Musa, joined the Jordanian military in 1948. He rose through the ranks of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, but later left the organization and led troops against it. He opposed any peace negotiations with Israel.

2013-01-30 14:25:04

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas presides over a meeting of the executive committee of the PLO, Palestinian Liberation Organizations, at his headquarter in the West Bank town of Ramallah.

2013-01-29 00:00:00

Moammar Kadafi with the PLO 's Yasser Arafat , right, and George Habash at the Arab Nations summit in Tripoli, Libya, on Dec. 4, 1977.

2011-10-20 09:41:26