Council members will be elected by direct popular vote for the first time, instead of being appointed or co-opted internally.

A new history charts how Palestinian militants of the nineteen-seventies made common cause with West Germany’s radical left.

The history of ‘peace processes’ and how the West and Israel have sought to cement their control over Palestinians ...

In 2026 - Eban's 1974 words of wisdom still remain the key to ending the unresolved Jewish-Arab conflict: Allocating sovereignty in the West Bank and Gaza between Jordan and Israel – the two successor ...

“In the Middle East,” the Israeli general and politician Ehud Barak once said, “a pessimist is simply an optimist with experience.” Barak would know. He was Israel’s prime minister in 2000, a year ...

The 30th anniversary last month of the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin sparked two curious misrecollections. One, by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency’s Andrew Silow-Carroll, ...

Nobody had a better week in Houston than Hubbard. He claimed a $215,000 share of the $1 million guaranteed prize pool in his main event victory, along with 215 PGT points. He added another $36,000 and ...

PLO Executive Committee member and PLF Secretary-General Wasel Abu Yusuf: "Twenty-one years have passed since we lost the symbol of our struggle, the eternal Martyr among us, Yasser Arafat. Twenty-one ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The historical handshake between Israeli Prime Minister Yithzak Rabin (L) and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat (R) during peace accord ...

Nov. 9 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1872, a fire which began in the basement of a warehouse in downtown Boston raged for 12 hours, consuming 65 acres and leaving 776 buildings in ruins. The ...