Foreign relations of the Palestinian National Authority
Top of the Hour: Obama Presses Palestinians to Resume Peace Talks, Morning Headlines
President Obama will meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to encourage both parties to resume face-to-face peace talks. U.S. officials concede there is little they can do to stop Abbas from making a formal request for Palestinian statehood before the United Nations Security Council. The U.S. has promised to […]
Protests at UN Over Palestinian Statehood Bid
Among the multitude of serious issues facing this week’s meeting of the United Nations General Assembly and Security Council, none has been the focus of as much attention as the Palestinian bid for statehood. The Palestinians will ask for UN membership, something the General Assembly anticipated in Resolution 181 in 1947, which partitioned Palestine into […]