Hanan Ashrawi s resignation was evidence that the PLO is no longer important December 14, 2020 at 5:00 pm | Published in: Article, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
Former Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) executive committe member Hanan Ashrawi on September 28, 2012 in the West Bank city of Ramallah [ABBAS MOMANI/AFP/GettyImages] December 14, 2020 at 5:00 pm
For decades, the focus of the Palestinians and world powers supporting the Palestinian people has been on accepting the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) as the sole legitimate representative of them and their struggle. However, the Palestinian leadership s move inside Palestine and the establishment of an entity under Palestinian leadership removed the PLO from the equation. Despite the division and the decline in the possibility of establishing an independent Palestinian state, though, the PLO has remained a framework that provides the Palestinian president with a stamp of legitimacy, while not actua
.Tamara Zablah, 32, and her husband, Tamer, 32, read with their 4-year-old daughter, Tala, in the family’s apartment in Bethlehem, West Bank, Dec. 1, 2020. Franciscan Father Rami Asakrieh, pastor of St. Catherine Church in Bethlehem, helps the family with essentials since the COVID-19 pandemic has taken away their work. (CNS photo/Debbie Hill) .Franciscan Father Rami Asakrieh, pastor of St. Catherine Church in Bethlehem, West Bank, poses with the Zablah family Dec. 1, 2020, in Bethlehem. Pictured with Father Asakrieh from left to right are: Kathy, 53, Tolay, who turns 2 Dec. 23, Tamara, 32, Tala, 4, and Tamer, 32. (CNS photo/Debbie Hill) .Franciscan Father Rami Asakrieh, pastor of St. Catherine Church in Bethlehem, West Bank, visits Rimon Zablah, 59, in his family’s apartment in Bethlehem Dec. 1, 2020. Father Asakrieh helps Zablah, who has health problems, and the family with essentials since
.Tamara Zablah, 32, and her husband, Tamer, 32, read with their 4-year-old daughter, Tala, in the family’s apartment in Bethlehem, West Bank, Dec. 1, 2020. Franciscan Father Rami Asakrieh, pastor of St. Catherine Church in Bethlehem, helps the family with essentials since the COVID-19 pandemic has taken away their work. (CNS photo/Debbie Hill) .Franciscan Father Rami Asakrieh, pastor of St. Catherine Church in Bethlehem, West Bank, poses with the Zablah family Dec. 1, 2020, in Bethlehem. Pictured with Father Asakrieh from left to right are: Kathy, 53, Tolay, who turns 2 Dec. 23, Tamara, 32, Tala, 4, and Tamer, 32. (CNS photo/Debbie Hill) .Franciscan Father Rami Asakrieh, pastor of St. Catherine Church in Bethlehem, West Bank, visits Rimon Zablah, 59, in his family’s apartment in Bethlehem Dec. 1, 2020. Father Asakrieh helps Zablah, who has health problems, and the family with essentials since