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/ 30 September 2011
The <i>M&G</i>’s readers weigh in on COP17, Percy Zvomuya’s article on the wealthy elite of European football, <i>The New Age</i> and more.
In his annual address to the United Nations General Assembly last year, US President Barack Obama promised that this time it would be different.
The UN Security Council is beginning negotiations on the Palestinian bid for UN membership as pressure mounts for new Palestinian-Israeli talks.
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/ 26 September 2011
The Palestinians’ initiative to seek UN recognition as a state faces an uphill struggle to secure the nine votes needed for approval.
President Mahmoud Abbas says Palestine will not hold peace talks without a "complete halt" to Israeli settlement building.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said he expected the Security Council to finish debating his nation’s application for UN membership in weeks.
Palestinians poured into Ramallah’s Yasser Arafat Square on Friday to watch Mahmoud Abbas submit Palestine’s bid for full membership of the UN.
Palestinians used the mechanics of diplomacy to grab a rare moment in the international sun, forcing the world to pay attention to their cause.
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas announced last week the PLO would seek recognition in the UNSC of a Palestinian state within Israel.
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/ 23 September 2011
Israel and the United States oppose full UN membership for Palestine, saying the only way to create a state is through negotiations.
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/ 23 September 2011
As the Palestinian bid for statehood comes to a head at the United Nations, Hamas remains split on whether to support the controversial move.
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/ 22 September 2011
South Africa, a key UN Security Council member, "fully supports" the Palestinian bid for full membership of the United Nations.
Compromise would see Mahmoud Abbas submit a letter to UN Security Council, which would then defer the vote until further talks.
President Mahmoud Abbas has told the United Nations chief he will seek full UN membership for a Palestinian state.
As their leaders go to the UN for a vote on state recognition amid a diplomatic crisis, six men and women say what it means to be Palestinian in 2011.
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/ 16 September 2011
Many supermarket products currently marked "product of Israel" could soon carry new labels.
The United States has decided to fight to the bitter end to convince the Palestinians to abandon their bid for United Nations membership.
Israeli aircraft struck Hamas outposts in Gaza and Palestinians fired rockets into southern Israel on Friday as violence escalated.
The Israeli premier has spurned American pressure to make a significant gesture towards peace to stave off international support.
European powers have welcomed a speech by US President Barack Obama calling for an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal based on 1967 borders.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal buried the hatchet at a Cairo reconciliation ceremony on Wednesday.
The popular revolutions across the Arab world have given Palestinians anew sense of hope.
The severing of ties between UJ and Ben Gurion University is a blow to academic freedom, the South African Jewish Board of Deputies said on Wednesday.
In a heated debate that led to a secret ballot, the University of Johannesburg has cut all ties with Ben Gurion University in Israel.
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/ 4 February 2011
Just after their failure to persuade the Hawks to arrest Israeli politician Tzipi Livni, anti-Israel hardliners are clamouring at the door of the NPA.
Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas and his aides have accused al-Jazeera of lies and distortion for publishing the "Palestine Papers".
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/ 24 January 2011
The peace process is a sham. Palestinians must reject their officials and rebuild their movement.
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/ 24 January 2011
Massive new leak lifts lid on negotiations, PLO offered up key settlements in East Jerusalem and concessions were made on refugees and Holy sites.
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/ 24 January 2011
Palestinian negotiators secretly told Israel it could keep swathes of occupied East Jerusalem, according to leaked documents.
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/ 14 January 2011
Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein said it was wrong to call for the resignation of Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, a patron of the Holocaust Centre.
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/ 25 December 2010
Fresh attacks against Christians marred the Christmas festival on Saturday as church leaders condemned religious persecution and called for peace.
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/ 25 December 2010
Israeli warplanes hit four targets in the Gaza Strip early on Saturday, wounding at least two people, officials and witnesses said.