Tag: Palestinian Authority
Why Biden’s concessions to the Palestinians hurt, rather than help them
The Biden administration’s first Middle East decisions make clear what was always obvious about the new president’s intentions: the foreign-policy establishment is back in charge in Washington. That’s led to a flurry of moves...
Fatah lauds Munich Olympics massacre as a ‘quality operation’
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah faction posted a video last week praising Black September commander Ali Hassan Salameh, one of the architects of the 1972 Munich massacre.
In the video, posted to the Facebook...
Palestinian Authority threatens to sue US ambassador over recognition of City of David
The Palestinian Authority is threatening to sue outgoing U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman in international courts for recognizing the City of David as a testament to America’s Judeo-Christian heritage and founding principles, Palestinian...
Report: Palestinian Authority greenlights Russia’s COVID-19 vaccine
The Palestinian Authority has approved the use of the Sputnik-5 COVID vaccine developed by Russia’s Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, according to a press release from the Russian Direct Investment Fund published...
Role of Palestinian libel in murder of Esther Horgen
The false claim by the Palestinian Authority that Israeli medically neglects, and even experiments on, Palestinian security prisoners played a significant role in the murder last month of Esther Horgen.
The main suspect in the murder, Muhammad Cabha, 40,...
Palestinian succession battle heats up as Biden prepares to take office
In the run-up to the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, Mohammed Dahlan, the former leader of the PLO’s Fatah faction in Gaza, has launched a major media campaign against Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas.
On...
Can the Palestinians adjust to changing times?
They’ll always have the United Nations. Even as the rest of the world abandons their cause, the Palestinians can still count on the world body to be their faithful ally in their century-old struggle...
Abbas adviser: Hanukkah menorah at the Cave of the Patriarchs a ‘desecration’
The Palestinian Authority’s highest Islamic authority, Mahmoud al-Habbash, harshly condemned the placing of a Hanukkah menorah at the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron, calling it a “crime.”
According to a report published by Palestinian...
Senior Palestinian official Hanan Ashrawi resigns
Senior Palestine Liberation Organization official Hanan Ashrawi announced her resignation on Wednesday, saying that Palestinian politics needed a “renewal.”
Ashrawi said she had informed Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas last month of her decision to...
Naftali Bennett: Approving a Palestinian state would be Israel’s ‘biggest mistake’
Israeli Knesset Member Naftali Bennett has warned that approving a Palestinian state would be the “biggest mistake in Israel’s history.”
Bennett, a member of the New Right Party, made the remark during a Zionist Organization of...