Tag: Palestinian Authority
Palestinian Authority: ‘Don’t kill American Jews (kill Israeli Jews)’
In an unusual move, the Palestinian Authority Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned the Oct. 27 murder of 11 Jews in the Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha Synagogue in Pittsburgh by the anti-Semite Robert Bowers:
“The ...
Palestinians schoolbooks still promote terror and the demise of Israel
A new study on Palestinian textbooks found that the Palestinians still support terror and destroying Israel, and funnel misinformation to their children, which doesn’t exactly surprise Israeli experts.
The four-year study by the Israel-based Meir Amit Intelligence...
Human Rights Watch: Palestinian Authority and Hamas crush dissidents
Despite its anti-Israel stance, the nongovernmental organization Human Rights Watch accused the Palestinian Authority on Tuesday of violently stopping dissent.
“Twenty-five years after Oslo, Palestinian authorities have gained only limited power in the West Bank and...
Palestinian Authority arrests American citizen for helping Arab sell house to Jews
A Palestinian-American citizen’s family reached out to the U.S. State Department for help after being arrested by Palestinian Authority security forces for his role in selling an Arab-owned house in the Old City of...
Palestinians to UN Mideast peace envoy: Go ‘on vacation with Israeli friends’
The Palestinian leadership has rejected any future cooperation with U.N. special coordinator for Middle East peace Nickolay Mladenov, informing the international body that he is “no longer acceptable” because he has “gone beyond his...
Merkel to abort visit to Israel if Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar is razed
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has threatened to cancel her visit to Israel if the government evacuates the illegal Bedouin settlement of Khan al-Ahmar before her arrival, according to an Israel Army Radio on Wednesday.
Merkel...
Watchdog group calls on Trump to deny US entry to Abbas for UN General...
The Trump administration has come under pressure to deny Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas entry into the United States for next week’s annual U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York.
Palestinian Media Watch (PMW), a...
Who will succeed the aging, ailing leader of the PA. Mahmoud Abbas?
Who will succeed Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas? The leadership in Israel, as well as the Palestinian political system, have been busy with this burning question for some time.
It’s not only Jerusalem that is...
Palestinian official: Abbas needs to ‘rethink’ path in face of US measures
A series of recent U.S. steps against the Palestinian Authority have infuriated the Palestinian leadership, but the outrage directed at the U.S. administration has been amplified by growing criticism directed at P.A. leader Mahmoud...
Is a PLO confederation with Jordan a viable solution to the Mideast conflict?
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas recently told a group of Israeli activists that the Trump administration proposed a confederation between the Palestinians and Jordan. For years, the idea of Jordan serving as a state...