Biographies

Dr. Nasser al-Kidwa is a prominent member of Fatah as well as member of the Palestinian National Council (PNC). Served as PLO/Palestine Observer to the United Nations in New York from 1991 to 2004. Played a key role bringing Palestine's case against Israel's Wall to the International Court of Justice in 2003-2004. In 2005, he became the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Palestinian National Authority. In 2012, appointed as Deputy Special Envoy of the UN-LAS Joint Special Mission for Syria under the leadership of Kofi Annan. He also served in 2014-2015 as the League of Arab States Special Envoy to Libya. In 2021, founded the National Democratic Assembly (NDA) and headed  the "Freedom" list for the Palestinian elections that were arbitrarily canceled. Both the creation of the NDA and the "Freedom" list led to an illegal expulsion from the Fatah Central Committee and a removal as Head of the Yasser Arafat Foundation. In 2024, conclusion of a Joint Proposal with the former Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, for a political solution. Born in Gaza in 1953, he graduated as a dentist from Cairo University, Faculty of Medicine. Presently, he is a member of the Board of the International Crisis Group. 

Ehud Olmert served as Prime Minister of the State of Israel from 2006 to 2009. Born in 1945 in Israel, a graduate of the Hebrew University in Psychology, Philosophy and Law. Served in the Israeli Knesset from 1973 - 2009 and was elected twice the Mayor of Jerusalem 1993-1998. Was elected Prime Minister in 2006 as the leader of Kadima. He led Israel during the Second Lebanon War. His primary priority as Prime Minister was a peace agreement with the Palestinians. In November 2007 he attended the Annapolis Peace Conference led by President George W. Bush, and in 2008 he proposed the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas peace on the basis of the two states solution. Olmert has agreed together with Dr. Nasser Al-Kidwa to propose a framework for a cessation of the war in Gaza and the framework for a two state solution for the Israel - Palestine historical conflict.

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