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Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas delivers a speech regarding the new U.S. peace plan at P.A. headquarters in Ramallah on Jan. 28, 2020. Photo by Flash90.

Abbas warns in handwritten note to Netanyahu that US plan voids Oslo Accords

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Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas sent a handwritten letter in Arabic to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday, telling the Israeli leader that the P.A. no longer saw itself a party to any...
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‘Peace to Prosperity‘ plan shatters failed Oslo paradigm

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With the presentation of its peace plan, titled, “Peace to Prosperity: A vision to improve the lives of the Palestinian and Israeli people,” the United States has essentially shattered the once-holy Oslo paradigm, having...
Election campaign posters in Tel Aviv depict Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, head of the Likud Party, as well as the leaders of the Blue and White Party, including Benny Gantz, second from left, Sept. 2019. Photo by Adam Shuldman/Flash90.

Gantz’s ‘internal war’ rhetoric is insulting and dangerous

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Blue and White Party chairman and former Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Benny Gantz has insulted the decency and morality of Israel’s public, drawing false and dangerous comparisons between Israel’s current political dysfunction...
Palestinian Authority schoolbooks. Credit: Matzav.com.

PA erases references of Israel, Jewish people and peace from school textbooks

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References to Israel, the Jewish people and peace have been removed from 2019-20 Palestinian Authority textbooks, according to a recent study. The study, which was carried out by the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural...
An Israeli military bulldozer demolishes a building in Sur Baher, July 22, 2019. Photo by Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90.

The unique status of Jerusalem’s Wadi Hummus suburb

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What’s going on in Wadi Hummus? Behind the tumult and the Supreme Court ruling that approved Israel’s demolition of 12 buildings in Wadi Hummus on July 22 stands the murky and unusual legal status...
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah on June 27, 2018. Photo: Alaa Badarneh/A.P.

PA leader Abbas warns: ‘Without terrorist salaries, we will nix Paris Protocol’

Israel has one week to reinstate funds it has deducted from the taxes it collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority, otherwise, the P.A. will seek to reopen the Paris Protocol, the office of...
A cardiologist at Hadassah Hospital cares for a Palestinian baby.

Israel 25 years after Oslo: Why Israelis shy from victory

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Middle East Quarterly. One day, imagine, a U.S. president tells an Israeli prime minister: “Palestinian extremism damages American security. We need you to end it by achieving victory over the Palestinians. Do what it...
The signing of the Oslo Accords on Sept. 13, 1993. Credit: Vince Musi/The White House.

25 years of illusions about Oslo

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When the Trump administration announced that it was ending its funding of the United Nations Relief Works Agency (UNRWA) last week, the protests from the foreign-policy establishment were loud and anguished. As a New York...
Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas speaks to leaders of the now-collapsed Palestinian unity government between his Fatah Party and Hamas in Ramallah on June 2, 2014. Credit: Issam RImawi/Flash90.

Abbas urges ‘review’ of all past agreements with ‎Israel

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Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas said ‎on Tuesday that it’s time to “open for review” all Palestinian past agreements with Israel, including ‎the 1993 Oslo Accords.‎ The Oslo Accords effectively created the ‎Palestinian Authority and...
The signing of the Oslo Accords on Sept. 13, 1993. Credit: Vince Musi/The White House.

The Israel-Hamas deal: Escape from Oslo

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Extricating itself from President Bill Clinton’s December 2000 “peace” parameters is a supreme Israeli interest. Ironically, this goal is being made feasible by the crystallizing deal with Hamas over the Gaza Strip. Both domestic and...