In September 1993, I sat with them and watched Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat shaking hands in the Rose Garden with President Clinton.

The humiliation suffered by Yasser Arafat and the PLO at the hands of Israelis in Lebanon during Operation Peace for Galilee in 1982 effectively ejected Arafat's armed group from the country and went ...

So was Yasser Arafat’s accommodation to US-Israeli demands in the Oslo negotiations.

Here are some of the United Nations' history-making events as the world body marks the anniversary of its founding on June 26, 1945, when the U.N. Charter was signed by 50 countries in San Francisco.

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was invited to speak at the United Nations even though the territories were not a U.N. member nation. Arafat told diplomats in the General Assembly chamber, “Today, I ...

Music James McMurtry Won’t Play His Famous Populist Anthem Anymore But on his new album, The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy, he’s still singing about folks in neglected places who feel forgotten.

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat smiles during a meeting at his compound in the West Bank town of Ramallah in 2004. Muhammad Nasser/AP It’s been 20 years since Arafat died as possibly the victim ...

Abbas, 89, has headed the internationally recognised Palestinian Authority since the death of veteran leader Yasser Arafat in 2004.

France said it has received a letter from the Palestinian Authority that contains “concrete and unprecedented commitments” to reform as Paris prepares to co-chair a conference on Palestinian ...

And by doing that, we must listen, and we must bear witness, particularly as Jews.” The term Nakba Day was coined in 1998 by then-Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.

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Abbas, 89, has headed the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) and the Palestinian Authority (PA) since the death of veteran leader Yasser Arafat in 2004 but he had for years resisted internal ...