Nabil Shaath

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas attend the Washington Peace Conference, September 2, 2010. (photo: Moshe Milner/GPO)
Palestinians aren’t counting on Trump or Clinton for their liberation
Americans will still have a long way to go before they can decide what their country represents. Once they do, Palestinians can begin to care again about what happens in Washington. As a Palestinian contributor to +972, I have been struggling these past weeks with how to write about the US presidential election. Part of…
By Samer Badawi October 31, 2016
File photo of Fatah official Nabil Shaath (Photo by Janwikifoto/CC)
‘PLO to join 48 int’l organizations, treaties if talks fail’
The current round of peace talks can only continue if the U.S. changes its approach, a senior Fatah official says.   The PLO will seek membership in an additional 48 international organizations, treaties and conventions if peace talks are not salvaged by the end of this month, Ma’an news agency quoted senior Palestinian official and Fatah…
By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man April 7, 2014
President Obama addresses the sixty-sixth opening session of the UN General Assembly (photo: UN/ Marco Castro)
President Obama to GA: Palestinians & Israelis must work it out on their own
United Nations — Looking wan and dispirited, President Obama addressed the opening of the General Assembly on Wednesday morning. Speaking without passion on a range of issues under the rubric of the pursuit of peace, he conveyed the impression that he was reluctantly reading a politically expedient speech. In the year of the Arab Spring,…
By Lisa Goldman September 21, 2011
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