The PLO’s Declaration of Independence in 1988, announced after the outbreak of the First Intifada, represented the official Palestinian acceptance that national self-determination could only be ...

The first wave of recognition accompanied the 1988 Palestinian Declaration of Independence. More nods of recognition followed in 2012, when UN Resolution 67/19 made Palestine a “non-member ...

Following a 1988 Palestinian Declaration of Independence which was recognized by more than seventy countries, Palestine applied for U.N. membership in 2011.

In fact, most countries have endorsed the Palestinian proclamation of independence delivered in Algiers in November 1988: Some 30 countries have diplomatic missions in Ramallah, and the UN already ...

A "Declaration of Jewish Independence" read by Zalman Rubashov at the final session stated in part: "After 27 years of foreign and atrocious rule over Palestine which the Mandatory Power ...