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2003 in the Palestinian territories

June 4 – "Road map" for peace: Israeli Prime Minister Sharon promises to dismantle illegal settlements in the West Bank, while new Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas renounces all terrorism against Israel.

Al-Monitor

The site also conducts interviews with newsmakers, including Deputy Secretary of State William Joseph Burns; former Director of Policy Planning for the U.S. State Department Anne-Marie Slaughter; former U.S. Senator Chuck Hagel; and Mustafa Barghouti, a one-time candidate for Palestinian Authority president who has championed non-violent resistance to Israel.

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Former Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad once served on the staff of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, where he did early research on the American Divisia Monetary Aggregates.

Giacomo Bini

As head of the Franciscan Order, which is the official Catholic 'custos of the Holy Land', he was present at Mount Nebo to greet Pope John Paul II at his starting point for his pilgrimage to Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority.

Giulio Terzi di Sant'Agata

His most recent overseas posting was ambassador of Italy to Israel (2002–2004), a period characterized by the outbreak of the Second Intifada, improved relations between the EU and Israel during the Italian Presidency of the EU (July–December 2003), and the renewed commitment of Israel and the Palestinian Authority to the peace process on the basis of the road map.

Jerusalem Institute of Justice

JIJ's current pro-Israel advocacy initiatives include presentations before the European Parliament regarding the ongoing financial aid going to the Palestinian Authority despite the fact that no significant human rights reforms have been made.

June 2007 in Africa

The President of Egypt Hosni Mubarak invites the leaders of the Palestinian Authority, Israel and Jordan to a summit on Sunday to discuss the Palestinian crisis.

Ken Power

They visited 120 countries and interviewed members of al-Qaeda, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Fatah, Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, Force 17, the Palestinian Authority, the Knesset, IDF, and US generals, as well as Israeli secret service agents in the Mossad and Shin Bet.

Levant

The term is also occasionally employed to refer to modern events, peoples, states or parts of states in the same region, namely Cyprus, Iraq, Israel, Palestinian Authority, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria (compare with Near East, Middle East, Eastern Mediterranean and Western Asia).

Rail transport in Israel

Talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority in 2004 have raised the possibility of reviving the old line from the Gaza Strip to Tulkarm and/or building a new line from Gaza to Tarkumia (near Hebron) with the aim of securely transporting people and goods between Gaza and the West Bank through Israeli territory as well as for transporting cargo to and from the Israeli port of Ashdod destined to the Palestinian Authority.

Speak, Bird, Speak Again

In 2007 the Hamas-run Palestinian Authority (PA) banned the book and issued a directive to pull Professor Kanaana's book from school libraries and destroy it, however, the ban was later lifted.

U.S.–Middle East Free Trade Area

Complications could still exist in getting trade with Lebanon and the Palestinian Authority given continuous Israeli control of disputed territories, and the actions of militant groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah.


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2007 Arab League Summit

Moreover, on the eve of the Riyadh summit, American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice persuaded Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Abbas to agree to meet on a regular basis, but Israel maintained its economic embargo on the Palestinian government and its military pressure in the territory of the Palestinian Authority.

Atif

Atef Adwan, Minister of Refugees in the Palestinian Authority

Deception: Betraying the Peace Process

Palestinian Authority spokesman Ghassan Khatib stated incitement by the Palestinians had been reduced significantly and that the book is "not a serious attempt to solve the problem of incitement."

Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine

The DFLP ran a candidate, Taysir Khalid, in the Palestinian Authority presidential election in 2005.

Karine A Affair

Lieutenant General Shaul Mofaz, chief of staff of the Israeli Army, announced in a Tel Aviv news conference on January 4 that the army had seized the ship while General Anthony Zinni was meeting with Yasser Arafat to promote negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

Palestinian land laws

The death sentence requires the approval of the Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas, who is not expected to approve it.

Palestinian political violence

In 1987, a mass revolt, of predominantly civil resistance, called the First Intifada, exploded, leading to the Madrid Conference of 1991, and subsequently to the Oslo I Accord, which produced an interim understanding allowing a new Palestinian authority, the PNA to exercise limited autonomy in 3% (later 17%) of the West Bank, and parts of the Gaza Strip not used or earmarked for Israeli settlement.

Paris Protocol

Protocol on Economic Relations, agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority in 1994

Politics of the Palestinian National Authority

The Palestinian Legislative Council (Majlis al-Tashri'i in Arabic) is the legislature of the Palestinian Authority.

Salam Fayyad

In September 2010, The New York Review of Books published an article by Nathan Thrall that raised questions about the Fayyad plan and one of its central elements: United States-sponsored training, equipping, and funding of the Palestinian Authority's security forces, which have been cooperating with Israel at unprecedented levels in the West Bank to quell supporters of Hamas, the main Palestinian Islamist group that opposes negotiations with Israel.

Taleb el-Sana

El-Sana is known for his outspoken criticism of the Israeli government, prompting one Jerusalem Post commentator to suggest recently that el-Sana be deported to Palestinian Authority controlled territory just as Abraham Lincoln deported United States Congressman Clement Vallandigham to the Confederated States of America during the American Civil War.

Water supply and sanitation in the Palestinian territories

Upon the signing of the Declaration of Principles (DOP) and the 1995 Interim Agreement, the Palestinian Authority (PA) inherited an extremely weak water sector characterized by serious institutional fragmentation.