Saeb Erakat News
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Palestinians defied newly re-elected U.S. President Barack Obama by pushing ahead with a second statehood bid at the United Nations that will raise their profile at the world body and highlight the stagnation of the Mideast peace process.
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Palestinian leaders plan to shake up the 19-year-old peace process and proceed with a United Nations statehood bid next month over U.S. objections, chief negotiator Saeb Erakat said.
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Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat formally asked the European Union in a letter to recognize an independent Palestinian state.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu returns to the United Nations today in an attempt to rein in Iran’s nuclear program, a year after visiting the body to turn back a bid for Palestinian statehood.
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U.S.-mediated peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority “have started,” senior Palestinian official Saeb Erakat said, ending a breakdown that lasted almost a year and a half.
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said after consulting Arab leaders in Cairo that there will be no further direct peace talks with Israel unless it renews a moratorium on settlement construction.
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Israeli police are investigating the possibility that an attack on a monastery was meant as retaliation for the eviction of Jewish settlers from a West Bank outpost.
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Israeli and Palestinian negotiators meet in Jordan for the first time in more than a year today to determine whether there is hope of reviving the Middle East peace process.
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Israeli and Palestinian negotiators said they will meet this week in Jordan for the first time in more than a year.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wrapped up a five-day U.S. visit that began with a White House clash with President Barack Obama over Palestinian peacemaking and ended with 29 standing ovations from Congress.
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