Tag Archives: PLO

Palestinian factions: PLO step to seek seat in the UN threatens the cause

[ 16/09/2011 – 11:47 AM ] DAMASCUS, (PIC)– The Damascus- based central leadership of the Palestinian factions alliance has strongly criticized Thursday the PLO move to seek a seat at the UN, stressing that the step was far from any national strategy for liberation and resistance. In a statement it issued in this regard, the […]

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Palestinian Americans “unequivocally reject” PA’s UN statehood bid

Related: Another major Palestinian organization – @USPCN – Rejects PA’s UN “statehood” bid, warning it endangers rights Ali Abunimah | Sun Aug 28, 2011  | The Electronic Intifada Palestinian Americans have called on Arabs, Palestinians and their allies everywhere to reject a bid by the Palestinian Authority (PA) to ask the United Nations next month […]

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The freedom-seekers America ignores

With Washington’s bipartisan blessing, Israel is sabotaging a Palestinian plea for U.N. recognition By Rashid Khalidi | Salon AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Reuters/Ali Hashisho Once again Israel is doing its utmost to block Palestinian aspirations for self-determination, unleashing its diplomats in order to obstruct Palestinian efforts to secure some semblance of statehood and freedom at the United […]

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Jamal Juma’: PA “killing popular resistance”

Ida Audeh |The Electronic Intifada |Ramallah |8 August 2011 Popular resistance has prevented the completion of Israel’s wall in the occupied West Bank. (Anne Paq /ActiveStills ) Few Palestinians are as closely identified with the struggle against Israel’s wall in the West Bank as Jamal Juma’. The coordinator of the Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign since its […]

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PLO Report: “Six Palestinians Killed in July, 230 Kidnapped, 32 Structures Demolished”

Thursday August 04, 2011 03:16 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) reported that, in July, Israeli soldiers killed six Palestinians, kidnapped 230 others, and demolished 32 homes and structures in the occupied territories. Israel is also planning a new settlement in occupied East Jerusalem. A View Of Jerusalem, – […]

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PLO: Israel Still Veering Off of the “Road Map”

PNN – Palestine News Network – 14.07.11 Ramallah – PNN – The Palestine Liberation Organization admonishes Israel’s actions since the beginning of this year in the latest report issued by the Negotiations Affairs Department. PNN Archive According to the data collected by the department, Israel has shunned its duties as stipulated by the 2002 ‘Road […]

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PLO leader slams US, German stance as ‘counterproductive’

Published today 18:33 RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — “People do not negotiate their right to statehood. Rather, this is an inherent right,” a PLO official lashed out Wednesday in the wake of US and German statements demanding Palestinian officials abort plans to seek UN recognition of statehood. “Far from acting unilaterally, Palestinians are bringing their case for […]

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Senior PLO representative says ending the occupation is the only guarantee of Israeli security

Friday, 27 May 2011 14:00| MEMO The head of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation’s culture and media section has said that ending Israel’s 44-year occupation of the Palestinian territories is the only way to guarantee the Zionists state’s security. Speaking in the Unites States in response to Benjamin Netanyahu’s “campaign to spread rumours which prove his […]

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PLO negotiator calls Israeli residency policy ‘war crime’

Published today (updated) 11/05/2011 15:51 PLO negotiator Saeb Erekat speaks at a seminar in An-Najah University in the West Bank city of Nablus, February 7, 2011. [MaanImages/Rami Swidan] JERICHO (Ma’an) — Commenting on a report detailing a secret Israeli policy that stripped 140,000 Palestinians of their residency rights between 1967 and 1994, caretaker PLO negotiator […]

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PLO says no future for the Occupation

Tuesday, 03 May 2011 13:15 | MEMO Palestinian Liberation Organization The Palestinian Liberation Organization’s Executive Committee has condemned Israeli attempts to ‘blackmail’ the Palestinian Authority into aborting the Fatah-Hamas reconciliation. It also called for international condemnation of Israeli practices. In a press release issued on Monday, May 2nd, the PLO’s Executive Committee stated that the […]

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PLO urged to rescind Israel recognition

PressTV – Sat Apr 30, 2011 3:29AM Ismail Haniyeh (L) and Mahmoud Abbas (file photo) Hamas’ democratically-elected Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh has called on the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) to “rescind recognition of Israel.” Making his position very clear to the PLO on Friday, Haniyeh pointed out that the resistance group will never recognize Israel. […]

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Haniyya Demands PLO To Withdraw Its Recognition Of Israel

Friday April 29, 2011 22:38 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies Prime Minister of the de Hamas-led government in the Gaza Strip, Ismail Haniyya, demanded the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) to withdraw its recognition of Israel after Tel Aviv announced its rejection to Palestinian unity. Ismail Haniyya During talks with reporters following Friday prayers […]

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Haneyya calls on PLO to withdraw its recognition of Israel

[ 29/04/2011 – 05:59 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The Prime Minister of the Palestinian government in Gaza, Ismail Haneyya, called on the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) to withdraw its recognition of the Zionist entity in response to its rejection of Palestinian reconciliation. He told journalists after the Friday prayers that there was no justification for […]

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Nunu: Israel failed to achieve goals behind aggression

[ 13/04/2011 – 07:28 AM ]   CAIRO, (PIC)– Taher al-Nunu, spokesman for the Palestinian Government in Gaza, has said that Israel’s recent aggression was aimed at foiling Hamas’s efforts to reconcile with rival Fatah and at measuring the response from Egypt and the Arabs as the situation in the region unfolds. ”[Israel] was eager […]

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PLO: Violence underscores urgency of ending occupation

March 25, 2011 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The recent violence in the Gaza Strip and Jerusalem indicates the urgent need to end the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the Israeli military occupation of the Palestinian people, the PLO office in Washington said Friday. “The Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian National Authority have condemned of all acts of […]

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