Mahmoud Abbas Names Prime Minister as Unity Government Talks Stall Over Foreign Minister

Staff / Truthdig May 29, 2014 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas chose a prime minister to head a unity government Thursday but announcement of the lineup was held up over the foreign affairs portfolio, officials said. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Israel Halts Peace Talks After Palestinian Unity Deal

Staff / Truthdig Apr 24, 2014 Israel said Thursday that it was halting peace talks with the Palestinians after their unity deal with the Hamas rulers of Gaza, as the faltering U.S.-backed process approached its deadline. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Palestinian PM Disbanding, Rebuilding Cabinet

Staff / Truthdig Feb 15, 2011 In a move that has a little to do with the Egyptian revolution, or at least lip service is being paid to same, Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad announced Monday that he will be swapping out his Cabinet for a new one in the next couple of weeks. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

PLO Opens Way for Negotiations

Staff / Truthdig May 8, 2010 The Palestinian Liberation Organization has approved indirect talks with Israel, opening the door for the first peace negotiations in a year and a half. One may remember the "proximity talks" that fizzled in March when Israel unexpectedly announced an expansion of illegal settlement plans in East Jerusalem. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

CIA Working With Palestinian Security

Staff / Truthdig Dec 18, 2009 Even after the hoopla of President Barack Obama's executive order barring torture, evidence is surfacing that CIA agents are cooperating with, and potentially supervising, Palestinian security agents who are detaining and allegedly torturing Hamas supporters in the West Bank. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

PLO Extends Abbas’ Term

Staff / Truthdig Dec 17, 2009 Mahmoud Abbas, who was to leave office in a month, will remain the Palestinian president. The Palestinian Liberation Organization indefinitely extended his term to avoid a constitutional crisis after elections planned for late January were delayed. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Abbas Unlikely to Seek Re-Election

Staff / Truthdig Nov 5, 2009 In the face of failing peace talks with Israel and a stalemate with rival Hamas, reports suggest that a frustrated Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will not seek re-election early next year. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Who Speaks for the Palestinians?

Staff / Truthdig Aug 2, 2009 Fateh, the largest faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization, will soon convene in an atmosphere charged with corruption, fraught with rifts and tales of betrayal and espionage fit for a John le Carré novel, as this installment of Link TV's "Mosaic Intelligence Report" illustrates. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Why Do So Few Speak Up for Gaza?

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Jan 7, 2009 Why is it that there is such widespread acceptance, beginning with the apologetic arguments of President Bush, that whatever Israel does is always justified as necessary to the survival of the Jewish state? It is not. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Hamas Holds the High Cards

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Jun 20, 2007 What a difference 40 years makes. Robert Scheer takes a look at current events in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank from a historical perspective, tracing the dramatic developments among regional and religious factions since the end of the Six-Day War. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Hamas Tightens Noose on Gaza

Staff / Truthdig Jun 14, 2007 Hamas, an organization once partially funded by Israel as an alternative to the PLO, is now Israel's worst nightmare as religious fundamentalists seize Gaza. Remember when Bush promised that the invasion of Iraq would bring sanity to the Mideast region? Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Palestinians’ Hard Choice: An Interview With Sari Nusseibeh

Jon Wiener / Truthdig May 3, 2007 Palestinian intellectual, political figure and former PLO official Sari Nusseibeh (above) talks with Jon Wiener, historian and contributor to The Nation, about Nusseibeh's new memoir, future prospects for peace between Israelis and Palestinians, and the 2006 July War in Lebanon -- a war, he says, that "both sides lost." Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )