Tag: Mahmoud Abbas
Abbas again voices his monstrous antisemitism
Last month, Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas came out with some ripe antisemitism. In a speech to the Fatah Revolutionary Council, he said that Hitler’s Nazis didn’t perpetrate the Holocaust because of hatred of...
Abbas: Hitler fought Jews for their ‘usury and money’
Adolf Hitler “fought the Jews” due to their “dealing with usury and money.” That’s a claim that Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas made in an Aug. 24 speech, per a recent translation from the Middle East...
Blinken holds phone calls with Netanyahu, Abbas
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke on the phone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday, according to Matthew Miller, spokesman for the U.S. State Department.
Blinken "reaffirmed the strength of the bilateral...
Abbas blames America for Israeli counterterror raids
Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday said the United States is responsible for Israeli incursions into Palestinian towns in Judea and Samaria.
The P.A.'s Wafa news agency report quoted Nabil Abu Rudeineh, spokesman for the presidency, to that...
Continuing overhaul, Abbas sacks 35 PLO ‘ambassadors’
Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has decided to fire as many as 35 of his foreign envoys, Arab media reported on Sunday, continuing an administrative overhaul that already saw 12 P.A. governors removed from their posts.
In...
Policy expert on Abbas firing PA governors: Like ‘reshuffling deck chairs on ‘Titanic’
Mahmoud Abbas, the 87-year-old ailing Palestinian Authority president, is showing his desperation and corruption by trying to fire more than 80% of the authority’s regional governors, according to Washington analysts who follow the region closely.
“What is...
Abbas fires 13 PA governors
Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas issued a decree removing 13 of his 16 regional governors from their posts, the P.A.'s Wafa news agency reported on Thursday.
In Judea and Samaria, Abbas ordered the forced retirement of the...
Top Palestinian official slams Biden administation as ‘weak’
The Palestinian Authority’s top diplomat on Thursday slammed the Biden administration as "weak" over its failure to date to launch a negotiating process with Israel.
"I’m frustrated,” P.A. Foreign Minister Riad al-Maliki told a gathering...
Thousands of Gazans protest against Hamas government
Thousands of people hit the streets in the Gaza Strip on Sunday to protest against living conditions in the coastal enclave, in a rare public stand against the Hamas government.
The terror group’s security forces...
The distorted ‘nakba’ narrative
Israeli Diaspora Minister Amichai Chikli is an angry man. Chikli, who has a history of being outspoken, has lately turned his sights on the German government. He has complained about inappropriate comparisons between the...