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JMCC / Politics in Palestine / old and new cabinet / Government A long-time Palestinian activist, Dr. Abu Hommos joined the Fateh party at the age of 14, and later became a member of the Palestinian National Council. (The Fateh party, like all Palestinian political parties, was considered “illegal” by Israel. She participated in the first conference for Palestinian women in 1965 and was instrumental in founding the General Union for Palestinian Women, an organization that focuses on the social, economic and legal status of Palestinian women. www.jmcc.org /politics/pna/newpagov03.htm   (4303 words)

JMCC / Politics in Palestine Draft Amendment to The Basic Law for the Palestinian National Authority - 2003 Draft Basic Law For the National Authority in the Transitional Period - 1995 Draft Basic Law For the National Authority in the Transitional Period - 1994 www.jmcc.org /politics/pna/pnaindex.htm   (144 words)

Liberal Columnist Calls on Hamas to Stop Terrorism You even refused to participate in the 1994 elections, because the Palestinian National Authority which organized them was born from the womb of negotiations with Israel..." the claim that the Palestinians do not want a state alongside Israel but a state on the ruins of the State of Israel. It is your inability to move from theology to politics." www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/720295/posts   (1146 words)

ei: Abbas sworn in as PA President RAMALLAH, January 15, 2005 (WAFA)- The PLO Executive Committee (EC) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, was sworn in on Saturday as President of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) at a ceremony held by the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) at the Presidential Headquarters in Ramallah. Abbas was sworn in as Palestinian Authority president Saturday and started his job with two crises: Israel cut contacts with him until he reins in militants and 46 election officials resigned amid allegations of irregularities in the vote that brought him to power. Members of the Abbas family, background left, applaud after Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas, also known as Abu Mazen, right, was sworn in as President of the Palestinian Authority during a ceremony at the late leader Yasser Arafat's headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah Saturday Jan. 15, 2005. electronicintifada.net /v2/article3532.shtml   (635 words)

Father of a Movement Palestinian nationalism, under Arafat, gained strength outside the occupied territories, with the US and Israel hoping to develop a leadership inside the territories, as an ageing Arafat was reduced to the rubble of the Muqata. As the father of post-World War II Palestinian nationalism, Arafat, along with a small group of Palestinians living in Kuwait, set up Fateh, which was to become the dominant organisation within the Palestinian movement, taking over the existing but weak structure of the Palestine Liberation Organisation in the late 1960s. Yasser Arafat, the quintessential symbol of Palestinian nationalism, died. www.jordanembassyus.org /new/mep/opinion/11122004ed.htm   (576 words)

CIA - The World Factbook -- Field Listing - Background Under the DOP, Israel agreed to transfer certain powers and responsibilities to the Palestinian Authority, which includes the Palestinian Legislative Council elected in January 1996, as part of the interim self-governing arrangements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. In late 2001, a conference in Bonn, Germany, established a process for political reconstruction that ultimately resulted in the adoption of a new constitution and presidential election in 2004. Following the elections of a reformist president and Majlis in the late 1990s, attempts to foster political reform in response to popular dissatisfaction have floundered as conservative politicians have prevented reform measures from being enacted, increased repressive measures, and consolidated their control over the government. www.phatnav.com /factbook/fields/2028.html   (576 words)

Carter Center to Observe the 2005 Palestinian Presidential Election Arafat, already the head of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, which was formed to seek the creation of a Palestine state, was appointed president of the Palestinian Authority and officially confirmed through the nation's first elections in 1996. "This election is almost universally regarded as a key opportunity to start a new era in Palestinian politics and to initiate needed reforms in Palestinian governance," wrote the groups in a pre-election statement issued Dec. 22. The Carter Center is partnering with the National Democratic Institute on a delegation to observe the election; both organizations observed the 1996 election of Arafat. www.cartercenter.org /doc1956.htm   (576 words)

JMCC / Politics in Palestine - 12 Oct. 1993: Elected by the Central Council of the PLO to be the President of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA). - February 4, 1969: Arafat was elected as the head of the Executive Committee of the Palestinian Liberation Organization that had adopted in June 1986 the national charter declaring on the "armed resistance" as the sole mean to liberate Palestine. - October 1991: After Yitzhak Shamir right government rejection that Palestinians from the PLO participate in the negotiations, a Palestinian delegation from the occupied territories joined the Madrid Peace conference that marked the beginning of the peace process in the Middle East. www.jmcc.org /politics/pna/arafat.htm   (1702 words)

view.asp?msgID=196 The returning leaders of diasporean nationalism now forged a new institutional edifice (the Palestinian Authority) with local urban elites and the internal wings of Fateh that effectively marginalized the PLO in all but name, and with it sidelined the role of Palestinian diaspora communities in affecting the course of Palestinian politics. Palestinian nationalism is being re-defined today as a result of these twin developments: the failure of the project for independence (two-state solution) mainly due to intransigent and superior Israeli settlement policies under conditions of an overwhelmingly uneven power relationship; and secondly, the rise of Islamist movements positing themselves as an alternative paradigm of national deliverance. But this combination has built-in limitations on its ability to set itself as the alternative to the PLO, since it feeds on the inability of secular Palestinian nationalism to create a state, rather than its own (Islamist) ability to create a workable system of governance. www.arabtimesonline.com /ARABTIMES/opinion/view.asp?msgID=196   (1087 words)

The Daily Star - Politics - By The 16th Arab National Congress, (Algiers, April 6-9, 2005) The Congress appeals to the Palestinian National Authority to release all militants detained in its prisons, considering the continuation of their detention a submission to world and Zionist pressures, which is in contradiction with the commitment to the liberation of Palestine, both the people and the land. The Congress, in the face of Resolution 1593, demands immediate holding of open trials in Sudan by Sudanese national justices for all those accused rightly of involvement in crimes against humanity in Darfur. The Congress meanwhile observed the lagging of our educational curricula behind the modem scientific progress, their inability to creative thinking, forming another danger to Arab mind, that should not be underestimated. dailystar.com.lb /article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=14341   (1087 words)

The Daily Star - Politics - Qatar to use regional event as Asian Games test bed Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, the Palestinian Authority, Qatar, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and the United Arab Emirates are the 13 countries participating in the regional sporting gala that features 11 sports. The Qatar National Olympic Committee (QNOC), the Doha Asian Games organizing Committee (DAGOC) and the West Asian Games Organizing Committee (WAGOC) are all working in close cooperation to ensure the success of the event. The second edition of the West Asian Games was held in 2002 in Kuwait and Qatar would have hosted the event next year had it not clashed with the Asian Games. www.dailystar.com.lb /article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=20422   (687 words)

Sabbah’s Blog » Jordan Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian Authority said they had agreed terms for a feasibility study on transferring water from the Red Sea to the Dead Sea, to save the world’s lowest sea from vanishing. Jordan’s Ministry of Culture rejected Islamists&; requests to ban two Arab women singers from entering Jordan because of their allegedly provocative videos. “Jordan is being invaded by Iraqi looters and prostitutes,” said Ahmad Oweidi Abbadi, a former lawmaker who heads a small right-wing group called the National Jordanian Movement. sabbah.biz /mt/archives/category/regional/jordan   (1290 words)

The Daily Star - Politics - Berri calls for government of national unity The Daily Star - Politics - Berri calls for government of national unity Who do you think will be the Palestinian Authority President Speaker Nabih Berri called on Wednesday for forming a government of national unity to confront both external and internal challenges. www.dailystar.com.lb /article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=8641   (1290 words)

Human Rights: Near East and North Africa Palestine: History, Politics (including the Arab-Israeli conflict and the State of Israel) human rights; reports; arab countries; Middle East; Near East; North Africa; Egypt; Algeria; Tunisia; Libya; Morocco; Western Sahara; Palestinian National Authority; Israel; Syria; Iran; Iraq; Kuwait; Jordan; Qatar; Bahrain; United Arab Emirates; Saudi Arabia; Oman; Yemen; Lebanon The 2003 State Dept. Report on human rights in the Middle East. ssgdoc.bibliothek.uni-halle.de /vlib/ssgfi/infodata/004109.html   (110 words)

Violence against Israelis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Many acts of violence and acts of terrorism were committed by individuals, groups and employees of the Palestinian National Authority against Israeli civilians in the last 4 years, since the failure of the Camp David talks in the summer of 2000. During Israel's recent military operations begun in the late spring of 2003 into the West Bank (including the town of Jenin) the Israeli government has obtained and published thousands of pages of internal Palestinian Authority documents which demonstrate that the PA has been covertly funding and directing, many of the suicide bombings. It is questionable how much of the current increase of Palestinian terrorism can be attributed to Israeli politics during the occupation of West Bank and Gaza to suppress the moderate voices of Palestinians who call for a peaceful solution. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Terrorism_against_Israel   (110 words)

TIME.com: Arafat's Illness -- Page 1 Rather than a simple transfer of the mantle of power from one uncontested national leader to another, Arafat's passing would likely open a protracted period of power struggles and realignments in Palestinian politics — and it appears unlikely that all three of his positions would be filled by a single successor. Yasser Arafat's gaunt, fragile appearance during last weekend's inauguration of an emergency cabinet for the Palestinian Authority has raised a flurry of speculation over the state of the 74-year-old leader's health. The question of Arafat's succession is complicated by the fact that his power derives from the three separate offices he holds: Palestinian Authority president, PLO chairman and leader of the Fatah movement. www.time.com /time/world/article/0,8599,516827,00.html   (812 words)

The Palestine Liberation Organisation: Return to unity : SF Bay Area Indymedia It is dangerous to overstep the role of the PLO, hinder it, or disregard the rules for comprehensive democratic reform within the Palestinian Authority (PA) set in accordance with the conclusions of the Cairo Declaration of 17 March 2005. The second condition is that the relationship between the PLO and the PA be redefined, for the PLO provides the political and national authority for the PA. The overlapping of PLO and PA institutions must be reversed. The Cairo Declaration was significant because it crowned the third round of the Palestinian dialogue and drew an outline for reconsidering the role of a unified PLO and its institutions. www.indybay.org /news/2005/10/1774299.php   (2973 words)

CNN.com - Leaders gather in Egypt for Arafat's funeral - Nov 11, 2004 Although his death leaves no clear successor in the often fractious world of Palestinian politics, Palestinian parliament speaker Rawhi Fattuh has been sworn in as interim president of the Palestinian Authority. But he said Arafat managed to preserve Palestinian national identity during decades without a state of their own. Arafat won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994, along with Israeli leaders Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres, for their work on the Oslo accords, seen at the time as a breakthrough that could lead to an independent Palestinian state and a permanent peace. www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/meast/11/11/arafat.main   (2973 words)

The Scriptorium Above all, the PSM told their activists-in-training to speak in the language of spirituality and not politics, to ask the priest or pastor to pray for Palestinians during worship, and to hook up with anti-Iraq war groups. Continuing their tradition of appointing dictators and terrorists to positions of authority on U.N. commissions, especially those tasked with enforcing global security, the United Nations has made the brilliant decision to give Iran a vice-chair position on the U.N. Disarmament Commission. In an another sign of the Palestinian leadership growing alliance with al-Qaida, Damascus-based Hamas head Khaled Mashaal recently met in Yemen with a representative of Osama bin Laden’s organization who is wanted by the US for his involvement in supporting and funding global terror, The Jerusalem Post has learned. rightwingerz.com   (11914 words)

Aaron Mannes on Abu Mazen & Mideast on National Review Online But a more immediate concern is that Abu Mazen, who is committed to radical Palestinian nationalist goals, is not the man to release the Palestinians from the extremist politics that have brought them so much misery over the last 80 years. But supporting Abu Mazen as the leader of a new Palestinian government, with the corrupt Mahmoud Dahlan (whose Preventive Security Service was feared by ordinary Palestinians for its unrestrained power, random arrests, and ready use of torture) as chief enforcer is only a return to business as usual. In his historic June 24, 2002 speech, the president exhorted the Palestinians to select new leaders "not compromised by terror." Unfortunately, an Abu Mazen led Palestinian Authority will be business as usual in the Middle East — with the same disastrous consequences for Israel, the United States, and most importantly the Palestinians. www.nationalreview.com /comment/comment-mannes060303.asp   (795 words)

The Palestinian Rebellion in Fatah: Foreshadowing the Politics of the Post-Arafat Era - Lt. Col. Jonathan D. Halevi Following the Fatah ideology consistently, they announced their total commitment to pursuing the armed struggle against Israel until all Palestinian national objectives are realized, including the return of the refugees, which means the destruction of Israel by demographic means. The Young Guard in Fatah is striving to force a change of generations in the leadership of Fatah and the Palestinian Authority, keeping Arafat only as a "symbol" and a "spiritual leader" for the Palestinian people. Gaza's slide into chaos, the crumbling of the Palestinian Authority, and even the eruption of a limited Palestinian civil war have all become real and possible. www.jcpa.org /brief/brief3-30.htm   (2321 words)

About ISO 3166 Country Codes - National Information Standards Organization (NISO) These code elements were selected on the assumption that the area would have a name containing the component "Palestine" or "Palestinian." By the end of 1998 no UN-official name for the areas under the Palestinian Authority exists. Country code standards are a reflection of world events and international politics. The international standard for Country Codes ISO 3166 is one of the most widely used standards maintained by ISO TC 46. www.niso.org /3166.html   (2321 words)

Edward Said By Christopher Hitchens It is an alliance of secular and democratic forces among the Palestinians that rejects both clerical fundamentalism and the venality of the Palestinian "Authority." It was partly launched by Edward Said, and its main spokesman is Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi, a distinguished physician and very brave individual, to whom Edward introduced me last year. Indeed, it should be no criticism of anyone to say that politics isn't their best milieu, especially if the political life has been forced upon them. He did come, as a member of Yasser Arafat's Palestine National Council, to meet at Reagan's State Department with George Shultz. www.slate.com /id/2088944   (1238 words)

Mincom Ilaycom Weekly News / Politics The Palestinian diplomat said Morocco backed the American proposal after president Yasser Arafat had informed King Hassan II on the political position adopted by the Palestinian National Authority on the matter. Rabat- The Speaker of the Spanish Senate renewed the position of "strict neutrality" adopted by Spain regarding the Sahara issue and renewed Madrid's backing to the relevant U.N. resolutions. Barrero who was on a visit to Morocco last week, denied, denied the information circulated by the Spanish press and according to which Madrid is using public property to assist the Polisario, an Algerian-backed movement claiming sovereignty over the Sahara, a former Spanish colony, retrieved by Morocco in 1975 under the tripartite Madrid accords. www.mincom.gov.ma /news/1998/1105to1605/pol/pol.htm   (1238 words)

The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Indigenous Studies CWIS George Manuel Library Palestinian National Authority: Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation The Fourth World Center for the Study of Indigenous Law and Politics (U. of Colorado at Denver) Specific topics include discussions of Sustainability, Equity, and Environmental Protection; Northern Development and the Global Economy; Ethnographic Portraits of indigenous peoples in Alaska, Northwest Siberia, etc.; and specific studies dealing with the impact of petroleum, gas, hydroelectric, and other forms of large scale natural resource development in selected regions of the Circumpolar North. www.cwis.org /wwwvl/indig-vl.html   (1238 words)

Greenwood Publishing Group : The Middle East From the days of Great Britain's dominance after World War I to the Gulf War and the emergence of the Palestinian National Authority in the 1990s, Hiro successfully weaves the varied threads of history, politics, and economics into a narrative that never lacks for high-interest drama. This is the most up-to-date book your students can find on the past, present, and future of the countries of the Middle East. Author, playwright, and journalist, Dilip Hiro applies his expertise and unique insights to explaining the struggles, conflicts, and alliances of this troubled area. www.greenwood.com /books/BookDetail_pf.asp?sku=OXTME   (260 words)

Israeli Politics - 2004 New Land for Peace - The Macro Center - Roger Williams University Meretz could bring six seats to the governing coalition, if it were to join – but Meretz has aligned itself fairly closely with the Arab parties, filing a no-confidence motion over a government plan to transfer towns with Arab majorities in Israel to Palestinian Authority control. With Sharon convinced that he currently lacks a “partner for peace” in the Palestinians, this could be a point of contention. Further, Shinui has expressed an unwillingness to share power with Shas – but then again, the aggressively secular Shinui was originally unwilling to be in a government with the National Religious Party. www.rwu.edu /macrocenter/2004/briefingpapers/paper7.htm   (1787 words)

MSN Encarta - Palestinian National Authority The PNA was established as a result of a 1993 accord signed by Israel and the PLO providing for incremental Israeli withdrawal from most of the West Bank and Gaza Strip and limited Palestinian self-rule in these areas. The development of the PNA under Arafat was marked by patronage politics, with positions in the PNA’s administrative bodies going to people with ties to him, or to those with whom he sought to forge coalitions in order to stay in power. The PNA is constantly pressed by Israel and the United States to suppress terrorist acts by such groups, pitting the Palestinian administration against segments of its own population. encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761588392/Palestinian_National_Authority.html   (999 words)

The Palestinian Rebellion in Fatah: Foreshadowing the Politics of the Post-Arafat Era - Lt. Col. Jonathan D. Halevi Arafat's opposition is heterogeneous and includes moderate Fatah leaders alongside the armed militias, although the two groups represent completely different political agendas. The initial goals of the current "rebellion" were the removal of Razi Jebali and Moussa Arafat (Arafat's nephew) from their positions of power as commanders of the Palestinian Police and the National Security Forces, respectively. Arafat's opponents support the holding of municipal elections and elections to the Palestinian parliament in order to remove the Old Guard from power. www.jcpa.org /brief/brief3-30.htm   (999 words)

ALMISBAH: Regions, Nations and Peoples: Particular Regions: Arabian Peninsula: Oman: History, Politics (WWW) human rights; reports; arab countries; Middle East; Near East; North Africa; Egypt; Algeria; Tunisia; Libya; Morocco; Western Sahara; Palestinian National Authority; Israel; Syria; Iran; Iraq; Kuwait; Jordan; Qatar; Bahrain; United Arab Emirates; Saudi Arabia; Oman; Yemen; Lebanon Oman; law; online documents; constitutional law; constitution; politics Regions, Nations and Peoples: Particular Regions: Arabian Peninsula: Oman: History, Politics (WWW) ssgdoc.bibliothek.uni-halle.de /vlib/ssgfi/subject/almisbah_ssg0302010703_on_en.html   (999 words)

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