Last week in New Orleans, the Republican National Committee officially adopted a resolution supporting a one-state solution in Israel-Palestine. This news came to me via a very trusted source, but both I and my source were puzzled by the fact that we could find nothing in the media confirming this. I called the RNC, but [...]

Britain will face severe consequences in the Middle East when it abstains in a UN vote on whether to recognise the Palestinian territories as an independent state, senior Conservatives have warned. As the foreign secretary, William Hague, prepares to tell MPs that the UK will abstain in New York if the Palestinians press for a [...]

It’s odd that the Israel-Palestine conflict always calls up talk about solutions rather than resolutions, as if some moral puzzle bedeviled the future of the Palestinians and Israel. Perhaps this is because no state has come into existence amid such paroxysms of morality. Times change, and the moralizing about Israel is now obsolescent. The 20th [...]

One of the many effects of the Palestinians’ bid for statehood at the United Nations is a renewed campaign for the U.S. to withdraw its financial support of the institution and downgrade its engagement. “I would tell the other 190-plus members of the United Nations: If you vote for a declaration of Palestinian statehood, the [...]

The Middle East peace process has stalled and the international community faces a “real test” to achieve a two-state solution, a prominent member of the Palestinian Liberation Organization has said. The United States’ refusal to support the Palestinian bid for full United Nations membership has in part contributed to a widening gap between the two [...]

NITED NATIONS, Sep 27, 2011 (IPS) – If Palestine fails to achieve full statehood recognition at the United Nations, the only other viable option is to get “enhanced” observer status with the 193-member General Assembly, the U.N.’s highest policy making body. But that proposed new status has already triggered Israeli and Western fears that Palestinians [...]

JERUSALEM, Oct 3, 2011 IPS – Days after his half-hearted conciliatory U.N. appearance, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had already approved the construction of 1,100 flats in occupied East Jerusalem. Yet on Sunday, he threw his support behind the new Mideast Quartet’s peace plan with the Palestinians.” Israel is welcoming the Quartet’s call for direct [...]

A Palestinian man has been shot dead in a clash with Israeli soldiers and settlers in the West Bank. Hours before President Mahmoud Abbas’s address to the United Nations general assembly and his formal request for recognition of a Palestinian state, the man, identified as Issam Badran, 35, was shot in the neck, according to [...]

GAZA CITY, 4 October 2011 (IRIN) – As reports come in that the USA may be preparing to cut a substantial portion of the aid it gives to the Palestinian Authority (PA) if the Palestinian statehood bid is successful, people in the occupied Palestinian territory are bracing for possible consequences. Still branded a “terrorist” organization [...]

President Mahmoud Abbas has exclusively told RT that he cannot understand why the Palestinian bid for full UN membership and peace negotiations with Israel should not happen in parallel. UPDATE: America froze 200 million dollars as punishment for Palestine’s UN statehood bid after the interview was filmed.