Results for “State of Palestine”

…mrades who insisted on “liberating Palestine,” Salam Fayyad, was interested in building the infrastructure for a future state, strengthening the West Bank economy, and improving the lives of the Palestinian people. Click here to read more... HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_033530

…n error on the scale of 1948, when the Palestinians had rejected the partition of Palestine and the creation of an Arab state; or in 1978, when by negotiating on the basis of Sadat’s Palestinian-rights framework, they would have ended up with a mere 5,000 Israeli settlers on the...

… fund the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNWRA) because it is an "irredeemably flawed operation." Historically, the United States was the organization's biggest funder — in 2017, the U.S. covered nearly one-third of the agency's budget of $1.1 billion. Angered by the Palestinians' r...

…n adjunct of President Nasser’s leadership role in the Arab world. Though Arafat had not yet explicitly challenged this state of affairs, his, and Fatah’s, rise after the war carried a powerful, message for the existing Arab presidents and prime ministers: their brash promises of...

inescapable accompaniment to Israel is Palestine. A two-state solution is the only strategic and moral answer to the wars since 1948 that have left countless Palestinians bereft of home and dignity

when the UN General Assembly passed Resolution 181 calling for dividing historic Palestine into two entities and for granting Jerusalem an international status

the constant exercise by the US of its veto power to protect Israel against condemnations and sanctions has proven the council's ineffectiveness in dealing objectively with the Arab-Israeli conflict.

…have been transforming the lands and the villages where they and their fathers dwelt.” Of course, they hated us and the state we were building. Rotberg had allowed his “yearning for peace to deafen his ears, and he did not hear the voice of murder waiting in ambush.” Dayan said t...

…ent basis but we now do do it on a permanent basis. We haven't even bothered to repeal the posse comitatus. We are in a state of emergency that was declared on September the 14th, 2001. And it's still enforced. It has to be renewed every year. Obama did it every year just as Geor...

…t memory. With so much of the modern-day Middle East consumed by turmoil and conflict, it’s al-Qaeda, so-called Islamic State, Iraq, Syria and Libya that are dominating the headlines, not the peace process. Even as we approach the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, wh...

…have been transforming the lands and the villages where they and their fathers dwelt.” Of course, they hated us and the state we were building. Rotberg had allowed his “yearning for peace to deafen his ears, and he did not hear the voice of murder waiting in ambush.” Dayan said t...

…hment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, [as] thus building a wall of separation between church and state.” Even earlier, while Adams was president and Jefferson Secretary of State, they jointly signed a treaty, ratified by the Senate, with the Barbary regime...

But a state grand jury found the witnesses in the case were not credible and threw out all but the single charge of soliciting a hooker in his luxurious Palm Beach home. Epstein's lawyers and friends now say he's the hapless victim of a vendetta by Palm Beach Police Chief Michael...

…in a week of unrest that took the lives of more than 50 people. The week was also marked by the imposition of a curfew, state of emergency, and large military deployment in the cities of Suez, Ismailliya, and Port Said. The events reflect the disillusionment of Egyptians, given t...

…pervision of financial institutions. Council members include the four federal regulators: FRB, FDIC, OCC, NCUA, and the State Liaison Committee (SLC). The SLC includes representatives from the Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS), the American Council of State Savings Supe...