President Obama meets with President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas in Washington
U.S. President Barack Obama (R) meets with President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on May 28, 2009. (UPI Photo/Michael Reynolds/Pool)
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has addressed the United Nations today in a bid for Palestine to attain the status of a full member state in the U.N., and as the bid has been filed, tensions have been flaring at checkpoints around the West Bank.
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Palestinians slammed US President Barack Obama's UN address and his opposition to their bid to win United Nationals recognition of a Palestinian state. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will address the United Nations on Friday, September 23, 2011, in a bid for Palestine to attain the status of a full member state in the UN.
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UPI Almanac for Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- Palestinian leaders in the Fatah movement have turned down the road to extremism by joining hands with Hamas, a U.S. legislator said.
DOHA, Qatar, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- Palestinian leaders were in Qatar Sunday to negotiate unkept agreements made between the Fatah and Hamas parties and discuss renewed talks with Israel.
JERUSALEM, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has told U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other international leaders that Israel wants ongoing peace talks.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Although it has been 95 years since the Balfour Declaration and 64 years of Jewish independence in Israel, Zionism is still fighting for global recognition.
JERUSALEM, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon met Wednesday with Israeli and Palestinian leaders, urging the two sides to move forward with peace negotiations.
AMMAN, Jordan, Jan. 30 (UPI) -- Exploratory peace talks between Israeli and Palestinian negotiators that were to end last week will go on for at least another month, an official said.
RAMALLAH, West Bank, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- The Palestinian Authority president said Saturday Israel's failure to present a clear plan for future borders was to blame for the failure of peace talks.
RAMALLAH, West Bank, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- Negotiations in the Middle East appeared to have reached an impasse Thursday as a Palestinian deadline for ending exploratory talks with Israel passed.
UPI Almanac for Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012.
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