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Arab League to support Palestinian bid for full UN membership

January 8, 2018

The Palestinians will seek full membership in the United Nations with the backing of the Arab League in response to the U.S. declaration on Jerusalem.

Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi. Credit: U.N. Photo/Manuel Elias.

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The two sides to the Arab vote on the UN’s Jerusalem resolution

Israel KasnettDecember 26, 2017

Saudi Arabia and the rest of the Gulf states supported last week's U.N. resolution opposing U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital, but they didn’t make a lot of noise over it.

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres (left) meets with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Feb. 12 in Riyadh. Credit: U.N./Mohammed Al Deghaishim.

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American Victims of Terror:

Occupied with the Occupation

Ben CohenOctober 30, 2017

Year zero: the Palestinians and the Balfour Declaration

So central is the Balfour Declaration to Palestinian political identity that the “Zionist invasion” is officially deemed to have begun in 1917

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Narrative Warfare

Jonathan S. TobinOctober 30, 2017

How Balfour explains why the peace process failed

The symbolism of Mahmoud Abbas' threatened lawsuit against Great Britain over the 100-year-old Balfour Declaration tells us what is preventing peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

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