Tag: Palestinian Authority
Avoid creating another Mideast dictatorship
Palestinian Arab journalist Bassam Tawil recently described a “fierce crackdown” on Palestinian reporters by the Palestinian Authority, including arbitrary arrests and beatings.
Meanwhile, U.S. President Joe Biden, in his recent meeting with Israeli Prime Minister...
Abbas: Hitler fought Jews for their ‘usury and money’
Adolf Hitler “fought the Jews” due to their “dealing with usury and money.” That’s a claim that Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas made in an Aug. 24 speech, per a recent translation from the Middle East...
Abbas blames America for Israeli counterterror raids
Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday said the United States is responsible for Israeli incursions into Palestinian towns in Judea and Samaria.
The P.A.'s Wafa news agency report quoted Nabil Abu Rudeineh, spokesman for the presidency, to that...
PA issues list of demands for Saudi-Israel deal
The Palestinian Authority wants more control over areas of Judea and Samaria, the reopening of the U.S. consulate in Jerusalem and the resumption of Saudi financial support in return for supporting a Saudi-Israel normalization...
UN secretary-general expected to visit Israel, Palestinian Authority
A planned trip by U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres to Israel and the Palestinian Authority is unlikely to yield significant developments but may help relieve tensions in a strained relationship.
The United Nations has not announced...
Saudi funding offer to PA seen as step toward normalization with Israel
Riyadh has proposed resuming financial assistance to the Palestinian Authority, Saudi officials and former Palestinian officials say.
This is a sign the kingdom is paving the way to establishing diplomatic relations with Israel, The Wall Street...
Blame the Jews for everything
If an Arab is dead, then an Israeli Jew must be to blame.
This is what the Palestinian Authority wants the world to believe. The P.A. has now added a new layer of horror to...
Continuing overhaul, Abbas sacks 35 PLO ‘ambassadors’
Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has decided to fire as many as 35 of his foreign envoys, Arab media reported on Sunday, continuing an administrative overhaul that already saw 12 P.A. governors removed from their posts.
In...
EU threatens to sue as Israel demolishes illegal PA school
The European Commission has threatened a lawsuit and is demanding compensation after Israel on Aug. 17 demolished an illegally built school in Ein Samiya near Ramallah.
It's the third school that Israel has knocked down in the...
Policy expert on Abbas firing PA governors: Like ‘reshuffling deck chairs on ‘Titanic’
Mahmoud Abbas, the 87-year-old ailing Palestinian Authority president, is showing his desperation and corruption by trying to fire more than 80% of the authority’s regional governors, according to Washington analysts who follow the region closely.
“What is...