Tag: Palestinian Authority
The Abbas comedy and the ongoing Palestinian tragedy
If you think you’ve seen this movie before, you’re right.
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas has declared that he is abrogating all agreements with Israel so many times it’s a wonder that he could do so again...
Israel loans millions to help Palestinians avert virus-related crisis; will they use it for...
In what can be considered a unusual turn of events for the Middle East, former Fatah terrorist Mohammad Aref Massad, who did time in Israeli prison for carrying out attacks against Israelis during the...
Jewish group, rabbis decry Biden’s call to restore US funding to Palestinians
A prominent pro-Israel organization and a rabbinical group have criticized former vice president and presumptive 2020 Democratic presidential nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden’s proposal to resume funding to the Palestinian Authority, arguing...
PA banks close terrorist-related accounts in response to new Israeli legislation
Banks operating in the Palestinian Authority have been closing accounts belonging to Palestinian terrorist prisoners after Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) sent a letter warning them that failing to do so could result in potential...
‘Counting to 10’ won’t bring peace to the Middle East
One of the main authors of the Trump Mideast peace plan is appealing to Palestinian Arab leaders to “count to 10” before rejecting the plan. Despite spending years observing Palestinians and negotiating with Palestinian...
PA TV to Palestinians: ‘Al-Aqsa is more precious than your children’
Palestinian Authority TV aired a clip that reinforces the P.A.’s message that Islamic holy places and the struggle for “Palestine” are worth the sacrifice of their children.
According to a new report by Palestinian Media...
Danon slams claims that Israel is impeding Palestinian efforts to combat coronavirus
Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations strongly criticized a letter by the Palestinians to the U.N. Security Council accusing Israel of impeding efforts by the Palestinian Authority to combat the coronavirus pandemic in the...
Report: Palestinians launch diplomatic offensive to prevent Israeli annexation
PLO Secretary-General Saeb Erekat said on Sunday that he was in talks with various international parties about the need to “preserve the two-state solution” in the face of possible annexation by Israel of territory...
Money for terrorists but not for coronavirus?
According to official Palestinian figures, the Palestinian Authority paid terrorists held by Israel NIS 517 million ($143 million) in 2019, compared to NIS 502 million ($140 million) in 2018. In January 2020 alone, they...
A pandemic anti-Semitism ceasefire? Not a chance
Two weeks ago, something highly unusual happened. The United Nations praised Israel. The cause for this remarkable exception to the general rule of the world body’s Israel-bashing was the cooperation between Israel and the...