International recognition will do as much to rebuke Hamas’s maximalist demands as it will those of the Israeli right, dealing ...

The U.S. president has fractured global relations, eroded multilateralism, promoted expansionism, and undermined protections ...

1950s - After graduating from college, Arafat founded a nationalistic group called Fatah ... November 13, 1974 - Addresses the General Assembly of the United Nations saying, “I have come bearing an ...

A month later, in a speech at the United Nations in Geneva, he renounced terrorism. That persuaded the United States to end a 13-year ban on talking to the PLO and put pressure on Israel to negotiate.

Of the 193 United Nations member states, 143 currently recognize the State of Palestine, a figure that continues to grow as more nations signal their support for Palestinian sovereignty. France, the ...

Arafat goes to the United Nations In the autumn of 1974 a young Palestinian was sent to New York to pave the way for Yasser Arafat to make a speech at the United Nations. His name was Nabil Sha'ath.

TO SAY THAT Yasser Arafat was the embodiment of the Palestinian national cause, as many of his obituaries did, is true enough -- but it is also unfair to those he leaves behind. T ...

Yasser Arafat's speech at the United Nations When the leader of the Palestine PLO Yasser Arafat spoke at the UN in 1974, Israel was incensed.

By 1947, the year before the United Nations voted to split British-controlled Palestine and create the nation of Israel, the young Arafat was engaged in secret and at times dangerous gun-running ...