PLO popularity and PLO trends

PM's response to Abbas does not "represent grounds for returning to talks", PLO Executive Committee members says.

's-Hertogenbosch (dpa) - Die Tränen standen Isabell Werth in den Augen. «Das ist jetzt alles so was von egal», sagte die Dressurreiterin zu den Ritten beim Weltcup-Finale und rang um Fassung. Der plö...

Supreme Court rules 1991 law does not apply to groups like PLO; ruling involved suit alleging 1995 torture in Jericho prison.

Saleh Ra’fat accuses the Palestinian Authority attorney-general of “cloning the policy of administrative detention.”

Yet another deadline passed late last month in the Israeli-Palestinian "peace process," this time over the initial exchange of proposals on border and security issues. Palestinian negotiators were (and remain) under pressure on a number of fronts. The Quartet still holds to a resumption of talks under the current guise and a recent visit from Ban Ki-Moon called for "a gesture of goodwill by b...

THE Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) has blamed Israel for the failure of five rounds of preliminary talks the two sides have held in Jordan.

Having stepped down as Hamas party chairman after 16 years at the movement's helm, Khaled Meshaal looks set to run for a senior position in the PLO in the forthcoming Palestinian elections.

Khaled Meshaal, who ordered end to suicide bombing campaign against Israel, has sought reconciliation with PLO and turned back on Syria and main Hamas benefactor Iran

ARAFAT MEETING:THE VISAS of a group of Irish politicians visiting Beirut had expired when they met PLO chairman and opponent of the Lebanese authorities Yasser Arafat in January 1980.

Rival Palestinian factions took a significant step towards reconciliation today as the Islamist group Hamas said it planned to join Western-backed president Mahmoud Abbas's Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).

The Israeli government spoke out after the Fatah-dominated Palestine Liberation Organisation invited the militant Hamas splinter movement to join the umbrella group.

CAIRO (AP) -- Rival Palestinian factions reached a key agreement in Cairo Thursday to admit the Hamas militant group into the Palestine Liberation Organization - the umbrella organization of the Palestinian independence movement that has overseen two decades of on-and-off peace talks with Israel, both sides said....

The Palestine Liberation Organization’s decision to extend the president’s term is an attempt to avoid a constitutional crisis in the Palestinian territories.