http://www.mail.com/locations/82668-ramallah.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/locations/82668-ramallah.html http://www.mail.com/news/world/2086806-palestinians-mark-their-1948-displacement.html RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Tens of thousands of Palestinians marked the 65th anniversary of their mass displacement during the war over Israel's 1948 creation, marching in the streets and in some parts of the West Bank clashing with Israeli security forces. Every May 15, Palestinians hold rallies to commemorate the "nakba," or "catastrophe" — the term the... Wed, 15 May 2013 16:31:37 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2086806-palestinians-mark-their-1948-displacement.html 2013-05-15T16:31:37Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1991290-palestinian-pm-hospitalized-with-abdominal-pain.html RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — A government spokesman says Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad has been hospitalized with an abdominal infection. Jamal Zakout says the 61-year-old Fayyad felt pain in his abdomen Monday while at his office in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Zakout says Fayyad went to Ramallah Hospital for tests and was admitted, but it was... Mon, 01 Apr 2013 18:58:19 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1991290-palestinian-pm-hospitalized-with-abdominal-pain.html 2013-04-01T18:58:19Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1969324-peace-possible-obama-insists-middle-east.html JERUSALEM (AP) — Insisting "peace is possible," President Barack Obama on Thursday prodded both Israelis and Palestinians to return to long-stalled negotiations with few, if any, pre-conditions, softening his earlier demands that Israel stop building settlements in disputed territory. The president made his appeal just hours after rockets fired from Hamas... Thu, 21 Mar 2013 21:41:36 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1969324-peace-possible-obama-insists-middle-east.html 2013-03-21T21:41:36Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1961218-palestinians-unenthusiastic-obama-visit.html RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — President Barack Obama will find a disillusioned Palestinian public, skeptical about his commitment to promoting Mideast peace, when he visits the region. Obama's trip, beginning Wednesday, appears aimed primarily at resetting the sometimes troubled relationship with Israel. But winning the trust of the Palestinians, who accuse ... Sun, 17 Mar 2013 20:28:18 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1961218-palestinians-unenthusiastic-obama-visit.html 2013-03-17T20:28:18Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1952038-politics-clouding-obamas-coming-visit-to-israel.html JERUSALEM (AP) — A week before President Barack Obama is set to arrive in the region, Middle East politics are already casting a cloud over the visit as Israeli and Palestinian officials plan a series of events to promote their agendas. Jerusalem city officials are offering visiting journalists a free tour of Israel's most contentious archaeological excav... Wed, 13 Mar 2013 18:09:35 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1952038-politics-clouding-obamas-coming-visit-to-israel.html 2013-03-13T18:09:35Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1947140-obama-meets-arab-americans-ahead-mideast-trip.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Just days ahead of his Mideast trip, President Barack Obama on Monday met with about 10 leaders of Arab American groups who encouraged him to deliver a message of hope to the Palestinian people even if he is unable to immediately deliver a peace plan with Israel. Obama met with the officials Monday, four days after meeting with Jewish le... Mon, 11 Mar 2013 22:32:25 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1947140-obama-meets-arab-americans-ahead-mideast-trip.html 2013-03-11T22:32:25Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1900456-palestinians-israelis-clash-solidarity-strike.html HAWARA, West Bank (AP) — Palestinian protesters clashed with Israeli soldiers at a pair of rallies in the West Bank on Tuesday in support of four imprisoned countrymen on hunger strike, as hundreds of inmates said they were refusing food for the day in a show of solidarity. The unrest escalated already heightened tensions over the hunger strike, which has... Tue, 19 Feb 2013 19:27:10 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1900456-palestinians-israelis-clash-solidarity-strike.html 2013-02-19T19:27:10Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1823814-jerusalem-barrier-spurs-illicit-building-boom.html JERUSALEM (AP) — Dozens of apartment towers sprouting up illicitly in an Arab neighborhood of Jerusalem are creating a fraught new dynamic in the struggle for control of the sacred city at the core of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Kufr Aqab is one of several Arab areas within Jerusalem's municipal borders that have been separated from the city by the ... Wed, 16 Jan 2013 09:28:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1823814-jerusalem-barrier-spurs-illicit-building-boom.html 2013-01-16T09:28:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1735650-israel-moves-to-build-3000-settlement-homes.html JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel responded swiftly Friday to U.N. recognition of a Palestinian state, revealing it will build 3,000 more homes for Jews on Israeli-occupied lands that the world body overwhelmingly said belong to the Palestinians. The plans also include future construction in a strategic area of the West Bank where critics have long warned that Jewi... Fri, 30 Nov 2012 23:05:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1735650-israel-moves-to-build-3000-settlement-homes.html 2012-11-30T23:05:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1733604-palestinians-euphoric-un-recognition.html RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Euphoric Palestinians erupted in cheers, honked car horns and chanted "God is great" after the United Nations endorsed an independent state of Palestine, giving sweeping international backing to their demands for sovereignty over lands Israel occupied in 1967. The historic General Assembly decision late Thursday to accept "Pales... Fri, 30 Nov 2012 13:58:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1733604-palestinians-euphoric-un-recognition.html 2012-11-30T13:58:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1730632-palestinians-celebrate-un-statehood-vote.html RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Palestinians erupted in wild cheers Thursday, hugging each other, setting off fireworks and chanting "God is great" after the United Nations granted them, at least formally, what they have long yearned for — a state of their own. The historic General Assembly decision to accept "Palestine" as a non-member observer state won't im... Thu, 29 Nov 2012 22:42:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1730632-palestinians-celebrate-un-statehood-vote.html 2012-11-29T22:42:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1728186-palestinians-hope-to-gain-leverage-un-bid.html RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The expected U.N. vote Thursday to recognize a state of Palestine will be far more than symbolic — it could give the Palestinians leverage in future border talks with Israel and open the way for possible war crimes charges against the Jewish state. The Palestinians want the 193-member General Assembly to accept "Palestine," on t... Wed, 28 Nov 2012 23:07:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1728186-palestinians-hope-to-gain-leverage-un-bid.html 2012-11-28T23:07:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1725348-arafat-grave-dug-up-probe-poison-suspicion.html RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Eight years after Yasser Arafat's mysterious death, his political heirs opened his grave Tuesday and let forensics experts take samples from his remains, defying strong cultural taboos in search of evidence that the icon of Palestinian nationalism was poisoned. Palestinians have claimed for years that Israel poisoned Arafat, who... Tue, 27 Nov 2012 17:30:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1725348-arafat-grave-dug-up-probe-poison-suspicion.html 2012-11-27T17:30:00Z