Israel’s security cabinet meets to plan next Gaza war steps, while separate political voices push to resettle Jewish ...

Of course, Israel has a right to exist and a right to security. Delegitimizing and attacking Israel is a dead end. Palestinians also have an equal right to exist and live in security, but Hamas has no ...

Both Mideast leaders appear to be facing erosion of support by followers; both remain recalcitrant in reorganizing their power.

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat said Thursday he was willing to implement an unconditional cease-fire with Israel, a move that could pave the way toward a U.S.-brokered truce Palestinians ...

As soon as he died, the most murderous terrorist wing of his Fatah movement, the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, changed its name to the Yasser Arafat Martyrs Brigades. They understood their master.

Twelve years after Yasser Arafat died under mysterious circumstances, a museum in his honor —complete with a gift shop hawking replicas of his signature keffiyeh — opened Thursday in the West ...

Yasser Arafat led a violent armed struggle against a powerful enemy for nearly 50 years before signing a peace treaty with Israel, then used a mixture of terrorism and diplomacy to forge the ...

Nov. 6, 2013 -- A Swiss forensics investigation claims that the former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was poisoned with radioactive polonium, the TV channel Al Jazeera reported today.

Nov. 11, 2004 -- Yasser Arafat, the only leader most Palestinians have ever known, fought for decades for statehood but was later seen by many as an obstacle to his people's dreams.