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 ...

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

More than 140 countries have recognized Palestine as a state since the 1988 Palestinian Declaration of Independence. But this is the first time major Western European states—NATO members, ...

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 ...

The declaration of independence, proclaimed by Yasser Arafat in 1988 during a meeting of the Palestinian National Council in Algiers, remains a defining moment for Palestinian aspirations for ...

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 ...