... occupation occupied territories settlements United Nations Yasser Arafat Hamas Fatah Palestinian National Authority Oslo Accords intifada Mahmoud Abbas The West Bank (including parts of Jerusa-lem) and the Gaza Strip came under full Israeli control in the course of the short Arab-Israeli...

...Nathan J. Brown The drama of international diplomacy has only obscured an ongoing, steady erosion of statehood as a focus of Palestinian aspirations. Nathan Brown Palestine Israel United States Mahmoud Abbas United Nations West Bank Gaza Strip Oslo Accords Hamas © 2011 Current...

... Authority Israeli-Palestinian conflict Barack Obama Benjamin Netanyahu United States Likud Iran Mahmoud Abbas 363 A Talmudic proverb maintains that after the Second Temple was destroyed, proph-esy was placed in the hands of fools and toddlers. Despite our natural urge to reduce the future s...