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Michael R. Gordon and Mark Landler EFTA00703391 April 1, 2014 -- The Middle East peace talks verged on a breakdown Tuesday night, after President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority defied the United States and Israel by taking concrete steps to join 15 international agencies — a move to gain the be

ans appeared to be using leverage against Israel rather than trying to scuttle the negotiations. Mr. Abbas, they noted, did not move toward joining the International Criminal Court, a step Israel fears most because the Palestinians could use the court to contest Israel's presence in the West Bank. Still, a senior American offi

the Palestinian People Nadia Hijab 26/9/2011 -- Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) chairman and president of the Palestinian Authority (PA) Mahmoud Abbas could have gone to the United Nations General Assembly for observer state membership, which only needs a simple majority vote that the PLO has alr

the fate of Muammar Qaddafi's forty-year-old dictatorship was sealed once the UN Security Council passed Resolution 1970, referring his regime to the International Criminal Court and imposing sanctions, and particularly after the council followed up with Resolution 1973, which authorized the no-fly zone that would render his

17 May, 2011 Article 1. NYT The Long Overdue Palestinian State Mahmoud Abbas Article 2 The Washington Post What would Netanyahu do for peace? David Makovsky Wall Street Journal Israel Will Never Have Peace Bret Stephens

Gadhafi And The Vanished Imam Fouad Ajami MAY 17, 2011 -- The law has tarried, but a measure of justice has been served. The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi, for his favorite son Saif al-Islam, and for the head of the regime's security appa

on-member "state." Gaining de facto statehood recognition from the international body could allow Palestinians to join key U.N. institutions, such as the International Criminal Court. Palestinian leaders say they have enough votes for such a move. But with two weeks before the General Assembly convenes, they have remained vague ab

HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025014 --- PAGE BREAK --- [9 Elaraby: That shouldn't be happening. It's wrong, and we do say that to them. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas constantly implores them to stop condoning the firing of rockets. The fact is that there are extremists on both sides. SPIEGEL: Will there ever be a