In 1988 it issued the Palestinian Declaration of Independence, which implied that the PLO accepted the two-state solution, just as its chairman, Yasser Arafat, officially recognized Israel. These ...

Following a 1988 Palestinian Declaration of Independence which was recognized by more than seventy countries, Palestine applied for U.N. membership in 2011.

They place the declaration in the immediate context of the debates in Palestine’s Jewish community over whether to declare a sovereign state, how much weight to give to the borders set forth in ...

A suburban Detroit school district has been sued by a student of Palestinian descent refused to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance ...

The members of the Gaza Tribunal gathered in Sarajevo from May 26-29 2025 to declare their collective moral outrage at Israel ...

Such a declaration is essential for decreasing Israeli concerns about Palestinian irredentism, i.e. aspirations to incorporate Palestinian-Israelis into Palestine.

More than 140 countries have recognized Palestine as a state since the 1988 Palestinian Declaration of Independence.

The first wave of recognition accompanied the 1988 Palestinian Declaration of Independence. More nods of recognition followed in 2012, when UN Resolution 67/19 made Palestine a “non-member ...

A "Declaration of Jewish Independence" read by Zalman Rubashov at the final session stated in part: "After 27 years of foreign and atrocious rule over Palestine which the Mandatory Power received ...

In 1988, he wrote the Palestinian Declaration of Independence, which was the formal declaration for the creation of a State of Palestine.

The declaration called on all Palestinian factions to join together under the umbrella of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people ...