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Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas (center- left), receives the gavel from Sameh Shoukry, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Arab Republic of Egypt, at the handover ceremony of the Chairmanship of the Group of 77 from the Arab Republic of Egypt to the Palestinians. Credit: UN Photo/Manuel Elias.

A desperate Abbas celebrates in New York as Palestinians take helm of major UN...

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Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas is in New York City to witness the Palestinian Mission as it takes over leadership of the G77 bloc. While there, he will likely push the Palestinian agenda and...
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the general debate of the United Nations General Assembly in September 2016. Credit: U.N. Photo/Cia Pak.

Palestinians to lead UN’s largest bloc of nations

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The Palestinians are set to lead the largest bloc of members in the United Nations, known as the Group of 77 (G77) and China, on Tuesday. Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas is expected to be in...
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas at a meeting of the executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization in the city of Ramallah in the West Bank, on Feb. 13, 2017. Photo by Flash90.

Abbas: ‘I may not have the strength to fight, but I won’t die a...

Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas has warned that the freeze in peace talks and ongoing construction in the settlements will lead to the end of Ramallah’s security and economic cooperation with Israel. At a press...

US Refuses to Expose Anti-Israel Incitement in Palestinian Textbooks

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The think tank that I run, the Center for Near East Policy Research, has completed a four-year research activity, in which all 364 school books for grades 1-12 that were published by the Palestinian...
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas (left) speaks with Jordan's King Abdullah II as Israel's President Shimon Peres stands by, at the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa 2013, in Amman. May 26, 2013. Photo by Flash90.

Analysis: Meeting between Mahmoud Abbas and King Abdullah of Jordan

On Dec. 18, Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas met with King Abdullah II of Jordan in Amman. According to sources in Ramallah, the main reason for the meeting was a request from Abbas to the...
Israeli Minister of Defense Avigdor Lieberman announces his resignation from his position following the ceasefire with Hamas in Gaza during a press conference in the Israeli parliament, Nov. 14, 2018. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Yisrael Beytenu submits bill to deduct ‘martyr payments’ from PA funds

Yisrael Beytenu leader, Avigdor Lieberman and four members of his party presented a bill to the Knesset on Tuesday seeking to deduct the amount of money the Palestinian Authority pays terrorists and their families...
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas (second from left) waves with released Palestinian prisoners coming from Israeli jails during celebrations at Abbas's headquarters in Ramallah, Oct. 30, 2013. Abbas at the celebration called freed terrorist prisoners "heroes," Palestinian Media Watch reported at the time. Credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90.

Palestinian Authority allocated over $319 million for terror in 2018

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Despite an increased public outcry and international condemnation for the practice, the Palestinian Authority has allocated more than $319 million as “pay to slay” salaries for Arabs convicted of attacking Israeli Jews in 2018,...
East front of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C. Credit: Martin Falbisoner via Wikimedia Commons.

Major player behind Taylor Force Act to Congress: ‘Stop US and Israeli appeasement’

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In response to reports that the Trump administration has been lobbying Congress to save U.S. funding towards the Palestinian Authority, a leader behind the original effort to successfully defund most of that assistance, is...

The school books of the Palestinian Authority

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PA school books present all of the six mil- lion Jewish citizens. as colonizing settlers mo- tivated by racist sentiments (History Studies, Grade 12 (2018) p. 5) who occu- pied Palestine, massacred and...
American Ambassador to Israel David Friedman. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Friedman demands PA release American charged with selling land to Jews

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U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman took to Twitter on Wednesday to call for the immediate release of a Palestinian American who was imprisoned by the Palestinian Authority for engaging in a real estate...