| GAZA | Largest city in the Palestinian state |
| HEBRON | Largest city in the Palestinian West Bank (6) |
| MACRON | French President who announced France's recognition of the Palestinian state.(last name) (6) |
| ODED | Israeli negotiator Eran, who held out the prospect of a Palestinian state |
| JERICHO | First French person was wealthy but got nothing in the Palestinian city (7) |
| INTIFADA | The Palestinian uprising (beginning in 1987) against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaz |
| ALNAKBA | The Palestinian name for the violent dispossession of their lands in the creation of Israel (2,5) |
| ARAFAT | Yasser ---, the first President of the Palestinian National Authority (6) |
| YASSERARAFAT | The first President of the Palestinian National Authority |
| ABBAS | Mahmoud ___, president of the Palestinian Authority, born in 1935 (5) |
| WEST | Part of the Palestinian territories (4,4) |
| BANK | Part of the Palestinian territories (4,4) |
| DARWISH | Poet Mahmoud who wrote the Palestinian Declaration of Independence |
| YASSER | And 1 Ac. Former president of the Palestinian National Authority (6,6) |
| ARABSTATES | Comoros and the Palestinian Territories, for example, are stabs at regeneration (4,6) |
| EINDHOVEN | Fifth-largest city in the Netherlands, known as the City of Light; in North Brabant province on the Dommel River (9) |
| ANCHORAGE | The largest city in the largest state gets a place to park the boat (9) |
| HOUSTON | The fourth-largest city in the United States of America and the largest in Texas |
| NEWARK | Port in New Jersey that is the largest city in the state (6) |
| BILBAO | A city in North Spain, the largest city in the Basque Country (6) |
