Tag: Palestine Liberation Organization PLO

"How can you expect that Palestinian leadership will compromise on any of their absurd demands, when every single one of their absurd UN resolutions are adopted?

Saeb Erekat called the meeting a “stab in the back of the Palestinian people and a flagrant walkout on the Arab peace initiative."

The United States is among the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and is most likely to veto the PA application.

Erekat said it would not be realistic to talk about peace without designating eastern Jerusalem as the Palestinian Authority capital.

Erekat: “The U.S. cannot be a mediator or partner in the peace process unless it withdraws its recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, because it makes no sense for Palestine to be without East Jerusalem as its capital."

Erekat said the speech by Pence “has proven that the U.S. administration is part of the problem, rather than the solution.”

The DFLP was responsible for several notable terrorist attacks in Israeli history, including one at a high school in the northern city of Ma’alot.

Oren also suggested the United States close the PLO mission in Washington DC in response to the vicious anti-American campaign waged by the Palestinian Authority's leading Fatah faction.

"We are optimistic that at the end of this 90-day period, the political process may be sufficiently advanced" to allow the PLO office to fully reopen.

"We will not recognize Israel... I declare this clearly. My friends, Hamas, you should not recognize Israel, you are not required to."

"There can be no apologizing for terror. Terror must be condemned unequivocally, everywhere."

"The [PLO] Executive Committee condemned the legislators of the American Congress and their positions towards the Palestinian people."

Greenblatt joined the Quartet in discussing concerns over the worsening humanitarian situation in Gaza and current efforts to resolve the crisis.

"But in order to achieve our state, the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem must be a single territorial unit."

Dahlan is quietly laying the groundwork for the statesmanship that must come next.

Dahlan pledges to work with Egypt to gradually open the Rafah crossing ... and with "friends and nations to build a seaport and an airport" as well.

Erekat claims Israel is deliberately sabotaging international efforts to revive the peace process and working to annex Judea and Samaria.

The case was first filed 11 years ago, but because Rajoub was not physically present it was withdrawn.

There are some places where the political uproar of the Palestinian Authority is still not welcome.