UNESCO recognizes Palestine, to the ire of U.S. and Israel. In 2011, with peace talks at a standstill, the Palestinians decided to push ahead with a campaign for full U.N. membership for a State ...

It took only a few days after Oct. 7 for the Biden administration to resume pushing for the establishment of a Palestinian state in Gaza and the West Bank. As ...

Media reports are increasingly suggesting that President Donald Trump favors U.S. recognition of a state for Palestinian Arabs. Then again, this is the Middle East — rumors abound endlessly.

Conventional wisdom holds that if only Israel would agree to the two-state solution, then the entire conflict would be resolved. The Biden administration, the EU, and the global media all embrace ...

An independent Palestine and Israel would coordinate on issues that affect both populations in a two-state confederation. The plan by former officials will be submitted to the U.N. and U.S. next week.

It is taken to mean a settlement which would see the State of Israel, admitted to the United Nations in May 1949, exist alongside a State of Palestine, a “non-member observer state” at the U.N.

Still, in the Palestinian context, one reason to doubt Palestine qualifies as a state as defined by the Montevideo Convention and similar formulations, said Nicholson, is it doesn’t have ...

11/06/2023 November 6, 2023. The question of Palestinian statehood has been disputed for decades — the current Israel-Hamas conflict has just brought it to the forefront again.

Few remember today that Jordan was, and in many ways still is, part of historic Palestine. Before the 1921 creation of Transjordan under British supervision, the territory we now call Jordan was ...

Just minutes after announcing his administration’s Middle East peace plan, President Trump tweeted out a conceptual map of the region that includes what a future state of Palestine could look like.

The State Department on Monday denied that the removal of a listing for the Palestinian Territories from its website constituted a change in policy. “Website is being updated. There has been no ...

The State Of Palestinian Statehood The U.N. General Assembly voted this week to upgrade Palestinians' status to "non-member observer state." It's a significant step, ...