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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 529

Ahmed Qurei

Former Palestinian Authority prime minister Ahmed Qurei at his office in the West Bank town of Abu Dis, November 23, 2020. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)
February 23, 2023, 10:48 am
Ahmed Qurei, Oslo Accords architect and former Palestinian PM, dies at 85
PA President Abbas announces death of Abu Alaa, one of the chief negotiators of the 1990s deals with Israel that created the Palestinian Authority
By Agencies and ToI Staff
President of the Palestinian National Authority Mahmoud Abbas addresses the media at the European Union Commission headquarters in Brussels on June 22, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / THIERRY CHARLIER)
July 5, 2016, 5:41 am
The beginning of the end of the Abbas era
A rise in terrorism, and internal Palestinian violence, underline the growing instability in the West Bank — and the sense of an imminent leadership change
By Avi Issacharoff
Israeli security forces take part in the operation to locate the three Israeli teenagers they believe were abducted by Islamist movement Hamas, on June 22, 2014, in the village of Halhul, near the West Bank town of Hebron. (photo credit: AFP/Hazem Bader)
June 27, 2014, 11:08 am
In Hebron, the IDF discovers, it’s all too easy to disappear
Israel has named the prime suspects in the June 12 kidnapping of its three teens, but finding them is another story. On the eve of Ramadan, the search is scaling down, and definitive intelligence is still proving elusive
By Avi Issacharoff
Ron Pundak (left), and Abu Ala (photo credit: Courtesy Ron Pundak)
April 11, 2014, 1:54 pm
Ron Pundak, architect of Oslo Accords, dies at 59
Academic who initiated the secret channel that led to the Rabin-Arafat handshake 20 years ago succumbs to cancer
By Raphael Ahren and Lazar Berman
PLO official Ahmed Qurei speaks to journalists at his office in Abu Dis, east of Jerusalem, February 19, 2014 (photo credit: courtesy/Steffen Jensen)
February 19, 2014, 11:56 pm
US framework draft is too vague, says top PLO official
Former PM Ahmed Qurei warns that Palestinian negotiators won’t accept ambiguous wording on borders, Jerusalem and settlements
By Elhanan Miller
Palestinian Authority Minister of Religious Affairs Mahmoud al-Habash (Issam Rimawi/Flash90)
February 10, 2014, 9:55 pm
PA minister: Western Wall must be under our rule
Mahmoud al-Habash says ‘every inch’ of land captured by Israel in 1967 must be part of sovereign Palestine, including ‘Buraq’ wall
By Itamar Sharon
PLO official Hanan Ashrawi (Ahmad Gharabli/Flash90)
January 27, 2014, 2:09 pm
Palestinians: Yes to Jews, no to settlers in our state
Netanyahu raised issue of settlers remaining in a future Palestine during recent talks with John Kerry, Palestinian official says
By Elhanan Miller
PA Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah, center right, after his convoy was pulled over by Israeli police for speeding, Tuesday, January 14, 2014 (screen capture: Channel 2)
January 14, 2014, 10:18 pm
Palestinian PM pulled over twice in a day
Rami Hamdallah held up at checkpoint near Nablus, after being caught earlier in the day doing 90 mph in a 50 mph zone
By Gavriel Fiske and Lazar Berman
PA Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah, center right, after his convoy was pulled over by Israeli police for speeding, Tuesday, January 14, 2014 (screen capture: Channel 2)
January 14, 2014, 3:23 pm
Palestinian PM stopped for speeding by Israeli police
Rami Hamdallah reportedly calls officers ‘dogs’, demands apology after being caught in West Bank doing 90 mph in a 50 mph zone
By Gavriel Fiske
Then opposition leader Ariel Sharon seen at the Mugrabi Gate en route to the Temple Mount, on 28 September 2000. Sharon visited with an escort of over 1,000 police officers. (Flash90)
January 12, 2014, 11:06 pm
Sharon was reviled by Arabs, but that’s not the whole story
To his death, he was widely hated as a war criminal, but some who came into direct contact with him conceived a certain grudging appreciation
By Avi Issacharoff
US Secretary of State John Kerry waits for departure after boarding a Jordanian helicopter in Jerusalem, en route to Amman, Jordan, to meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Saturday, June 29, 2013. (photo credit: AP /Jacquelyn Martin)
January 3, 2014, 7:21 am
Just like his predecessors, Kerry finds trouble crossing the Jordan
Back when Bush and Rice were seeking a deal, Barak drew up an ‘Eight Point’ paper that kept the IDF in the Jordan Valley. Abbas said no. Now, Kerry is mired in the same dispute
By Avi Issacharoff
Former US president Bill Clinton looks on as then prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO head Yasser Arafat shake hands during the signing of the Oslo Accords, September 13, 1993. (Courtesy/GPO)
September 15, 2013, 5:49 am
No regrets, many laments, from the architect of Oslo
Ron Pundak, who initiated the secret channel that led to the Rabin-Arafat handshake 20 years ago, argues that without the process he birthed, things today would be even worse
By Raphael Ahren
A Palestinian man walks by the barrier separating the West Bank town of Abu Dis from East Jerusalem. The Arabic graffiti, seen on the Abu Dis side, reads, "PLO, no for negotiations." Monday, September 9, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Nasser Nasser)
September 13, 2013, 4:02 am
20 years on, Oslo Accords promise rings hollow
Negotiators on both sides say mistakes they made then are causing damage to this day
By Karin Laub
Kadima Chairman Shaul Mofaz and his wife Orit. (photo credit: AP/Ariel Schalit, file)
April 24, 2012, 9:51 pm
Mofaz strikes out against binational state idea
Leader of the opposition says thought of one state for two people ‘keeps me up at night’
Ahmed Qureia, former Palestinian prime minister and Yossi Beilin, former Israeli justice minister (photo credit: Flash90)
From the WebApril 24, 2012, 4:24 pm
Oslo Accords architects abandon two-state solution
The Guardian: Former minister Yossi Beilin and former Palestinian prime minister Ahmed Qureia admit peace process has failed
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