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19th January 09. In Pictures: Israel’s Brutal Attack on UNRWA School in Beit Lahia |
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Modern Constitution are no longer merely a set of legal rules to manage governance but rather an expression of a political philosophy and a program that aims at achieving political , social , and economic objectives that reflect the spirit of constitution and its real intent . Therefore we view constitutions as comprising for the overall general rules while leaving many details for other laws or the general constitutional principles. This applies to the Palestinian Basic Law, particularly since it was drafted for an interim period. |
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| London, United Kingdom Dec 15th, 2008. “Economic Development: Cause and Effect of Middle East Peace” Remarks at the Palestine Trade & Investment Conference by Salam Fayyad Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority. | |
New York, Dec 15th, 2008. Representatives of the Quartet—U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union Javier Solana, European Commissioner for External Relations Benita Ferrero-Waldner, and French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner— endorsed the following statement on the situation in the Middle East. They were joined by Quartet Representative Tony Blair |
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| Brussels, 8 and 9 December 2008. 2915th EXTERTAL RELATIONS Council meeting |
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Nov 24th, 2008. Message of from H.E. Mr. Mahmoud Abbas, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization and President of the Palestinian National Authority on the Occasion of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, 24 November 2008. |
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Palestine, the land of the three monotheistic faiths, is where the Palestinian Arab people was born, on which it grew, developed and excelled. Thus the Palestinian Arab people ensured for itself an everlasting union between itself, its land, and its history. |
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New York, Nov 18th, 2008 – Press release by the Permanent Observer Mission of Palestine to the United Nations on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Declaration of the Independence of the State of Palestine. |
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Nov 08. Throughout their contemporary history, nearly every month of the year has marked a tragic event for Palestinians. November is a particularly fateful month; is marks the death and the resurrection of the state of Palestine on the 2nd and 15th respectively, while on the 4th and 11th Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat died - two leaders who had the will to make peace. |
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Gaza Oct 28th, 2008 – (Ma’an) – Despite Israeli threats of no-passage, the second Free Gaza boat set sail from Cyprus on Tuesday with Member of the Palestinian Legislative Council Mustafa Al-Barghouthi aboard along with and several members of the European parliament and medical doctors. |
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RAMALLAH, Oct 20th, 2008 (AP) — The Palestinian president accused Israel of not protecting Palestinian farmers against settler attacks during the ongoing olive harvest, but Israel's defense minister said Monday his troops are doing the best they can. |
RAMALLAH, Oct 27th, 2008 (WAFA)- American Consul General in Jerusalem, Jake Walles said on Monday that, settler attacks against innocent Palestinian Farmers during the Olive Harvesting Season are unacceptable. |
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| Hebron, Oct 27th, 2008 (Ma'an) – The Palestinian Prisoners Society in Hebron on Monday a protest at the offices of the International Committee of the Red Cross in solidarity with Palestinians who are abused in Israeli prisons. |
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Bethlehem Oct 23th , 2008 (Ma’an), - Israeli forces invaded the West Bank town of Tuqu on Thursday afternoon and threatened to demolish the house of a young Palestinian man who fatally stabbed an Israeli man earlier in the Gilo settlement. Israeli troops called through loudspeakers urging the family to leave the house "before it is destroyed." |
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Bethlehem Oct 23th , 2008 (Ma’an), - Israeli forces invaded the West Bank town of Tuqu on Thursday afternoon and threatened to demolish the house of a young Palestinian man who fatally stabbed an Israeli man earlier in the Gilo settlement. Israeli troops called through loudspeakers urging the family to leave the house "before it is destroyed." |
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Bethlehem, Oct 23, 2008 (Ma'an) - Israeli forces have invaded the West Bank town of Tuqu on Thursday afternoon and threatened to demolish the house of a young Palestinian man who was shot dead after allegedly stabbing two Israelis earlier in a nearby settlement. Israeli troops called through loudspeakers urging the family to leave the house before it is destroyed. Stone-throwing Palestinians are at this time clashing with Israeli troops who entered the village in 20 vehicles shortly after the stabbing was reported. |
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October 14, 2008 (NAD-PLO) - The National Campaign against the Apartheid Wall, in cooperation of Palestinian civil society organizations announced that the national campaign for olive harvest will start tomorrow . The coordinator of the campaign Jamal Joma’ said in press conference: “the campaign aimed at supporting the Palestinian farmers while they are working in their fields and protecting them from the continuous attacks by Jewish colonizers, which usually escalate in the olives season, specially in Nablus, Qalqilia, Hebron areas.”. |
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September 7 , 2008 (NAD-PLO) - The latest update to the PLO's Negotiations Affairs Department factsheet on Palestinian political prisoners being held by Israel is now online in html and PDF formats. No issue highlights Israel’s 40-year denial of Palestinian freedom under military occupation better than that of political prisoners. Palestinians have been subjected to one of the highest rates of incarceration in the world. |
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August 25 , 2008 (NAD-PLO) - Excerpt: "The PLO’s primary goals in engaging in direct negotiations
with Israel are to ensure the fulfillment of Palestinian national rights enshrined in international law, to secure an
end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and to reach a just,
lasting, and comprehensive peace. This will necessitate
an end to Israeli occupation andcolonization, fulfilment
of the Palestinian right to self-determination through
the establishment of an independent and sovereign
Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip with
East Jerusalem as its capital, and the achievement of a
just resolution of the refugee issue. The Palestinian state
must be politically, economically and territorially viable.
This is in the interests of both Israelis and Palestinians". |
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August 10, 2008 (PMC) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday declared three days of national mourning for the death of Mahmoud Darwish, the internationally-renowned poet and one of the Arab world's greatest poets, known as the heart and tongue of the Palestinian people, who passed away yesterday in a U.S. hospital in Houston, Texas, at the age of 67 after an open-heart surgery two days earlier. |
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June 16, 2008 (WAFA) - Presidency Spokesperson Nabil Abu Rdeina warned on Monday of continued settlements in occupied Jerusalem, adding that such acts would kill the peace process. |
For daily situtation reports prepared by the Palestinian Monitoring Group (PMG) - an inter-agency group of Palestinian civilian ministries and security agencies: |
