Mahmoud Abbas’s decision to defer the adoption of the Goldstone report by the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva last week was more than an innocent diplomatic error or classical

Just when it seemed that the Ramallah Palestinian Authority (PA) and its leader Mahmoud Abbas could not sink any lower in their complicity with Israel's occupation of the West Bank

Friday witnessed protestors in Jordan taking to the streets, and the calling for the severing of diplomatic relations with Israel and the expelling of the Israeli ambassador from Amman in

Abbas’ weakness, like Arafat’s before him in the latter’s last decade of life, has been an infatuation with two elements that are addictive but non-productive: the trappings of power, privilege

Yesterday, 2 October 2009, the Palestinian leadership -- under heavy international pressure lead by the United States -- deferred the draft proposal at the Human Rights Council endorsing all the

Palestinians and others are still absorbing and thinking through the implications of the Palestinian Authority's decision to withdraw its support for the Goldstone report on Israel's assault on Gaza last

Palestinian civil society has strongly and almost unanimously condemned the Palestinian Authority's decision to delay action regarding the UN Fact-Finding Mission's report, headed by justice Richard Goldstone, which investigated the

For its part, the Palestinian community in Switzerland strongly denounced the PA irresponsible position against Goldstone’s report, saying that this position represented a political and moral decline and contradicted the

The world has witnessed many incidents during the past few weeks, including activities of state, international and regional institutions.

In a press release, the factions expressed their rejection of all misleading and contradictory reasons given by the Palestinian Authority (PA) to justify its position toward the report.