Tag: Palestinian Authority
US State Department to Israel: We have a bridge to sell you (again)
An ex-U.S. State Department official believes that he has come up with a brand-new, innovative, never-before-tried way to reach peace in the Middle East: Give more territory to the Palestinian Authority.
How many times will...
Buried facts about the Gaza war
The extent to which the political class and the media are burying facts that undermine their poisonous narrative in order to defame and undermine Israel’s war of survival has become simply jaw-dropping.
The Biden administration...
The Bahamas recognizes Palestinian state
The Bahamas, a former British colony in the Caribbean region with a population of some 400,000, formally recognized a Palestinian state, the government in Nassau announced on Tuesday.
“The Bahamas became an independent nation in...
Will peace have a chance in the Middle East?
The basic elements of peace
The whole world seems to agree on the broad outlines of an agreement:
The return of territories conquered in 1967 and the creation of a viable Palestinian state;
The division...
Israel threatens to ban PA soccer association head from travel
After the head of the Palestinian Football Association demanded that the Jewish state be banned from international competitions due to the war against Hamas in Gaza, Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz on Thursday threatened...
Palestinian militias are resurgent in the northern West Bank
The new Palestinian Authority government headed by Mohammed Mustafa says it is planning financial and administrative reforms in its institutions as part of a U.S. plan to “revitalize” the P.A.
However, since the new P.A....
Smotrich threatens to topple PA if ICC, UN take unilateral action against Israel
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Thursday threatened to crush the Palestinian Authority (P.A.) financially if certain unilateral actions are brought against Israel in the international arena.
In an open letter to Israeli Prime Minister...
When praying at a Jewish Holy Site is a crime
(Moshe Phillips is a commentator on Jewish affairs whose writings appear regularly in the American and Israeli press.)
When is it a crime for a Jew to pray at a Jewish holy site? When the...
UN Security Council committee doesn’t recommend Palestinian membership vote
The U.N. Security Council’s committee on new members reported on Tuesday that it could not reach a consensus on the revived application for full Palestinian U.N. membership.
Algeria, the Arab world’s de facto representative on the council,...
US: Palestinian state should arise through direct negotiations
The Biden administration supports the creation of a Palestinian state via direct negotiations between Ramallah and Jerusalem and not unilateral moves at the United Nations, State Department Spokesman Matt Miller said on Wednesday.
“I am...