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DESCRIPTION:His Excellency Maen Areikat, Chief Representative of the Palestine 
 Liberation Organization Mission to the United States, joins the Council to 
 discuss the recent developments in the Middle East peace process and to 
 take a look forward at the opportunities and challenges for a Palestinian 
 state. President Obama has demonstrated a renewed commitment and urgency to 
 solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and much has been happening. 
 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is being pressured to stop 
 settlement construction in the West Bank with Palestinian President Mahmoud 
 Abbas refusing to negotiate until this commitment is realized. Palestinian 
 Prime Minister Salam Fayyad recently released an outline to create a 
 Palestinian state by 2011 through internal institution building. Meanwhile, 
 tensions between Hamas and Fatah still remain. Reconciliation talks have 
 floundered and new elections are scheduled for 2010. Mr. Areikat previously 
 took part in Palestinian-Israeli negotiations at Beit Hanoun/Erez in Gaza 
 and Taba, Egypt, in 1996, in Jerusalem in 1997, and was an official member 
 of the Palestinian delegation at the Wye River negotiations in 1998. He 
 recently returned from Bethlehem where Fatah held its first party 
 conference in 20 years and elected a mostly new leadership 
 committee.\n\nAdvance prepaid reservations are required. The World Affairs 
 Council will not be handling ticket sales for this program.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/10/06/18624656.php
SUMMARY:The Palestinian-Israeli Peace-- with Chief PLO Representative Maen Areikat
LOCATION:Herbst Theatre\n401 Van Ness Avenue\nSan Francisco, California 94102
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/10/06/18624656.php
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