Tag: Palestinians
Israel 25 years after Oslo: Why Israelis shy from victory
Middle East Quarterly. One day, imagine, a U.S. president tells an Israeli prime minister: “Palestinian extremism damages American security. We need you to end it by achieving victory over the Palestinians. Do what it...
Palestinian terror balloon reaches Jerusalem suburb
A balloon fitted with an explosive device, launched by Palestinian terrorists, landed outside a home in Givat Ze’ev, a suburb of Jerusalem, for the first time on Monday.
Police sappers neutralized the device in the...
Fatah mocks 9/11 terror attacks in political cartoon
On the 17th anniversary of the terror attacks on 9/11, Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah movement posted the above cartoon, mocking the horrific attack in which nearly 3,000 Americans were murdered.
The cartoon shows U.S. President Donald...
Palestinian “Sacredness” and the Law of Armed Conflict
Israel’s Palestinian foes regard “martyrdom” as the supremely highest expression of Islamic sacredness. Nonetheless, there are certain conspicuously prominent disjunctions between the relevant obligations of faith and expectations of international law. Unambiguously, only the...
Jerusalem mufti: Palestinian refugees must not accept compensation for land
On Sept. 3, the website of Dar Al-Ifta Palestine, the Palestinian fatwa institution, published an official statement by Jerusalem Mufti Sheikh Muhammad Hussein, in which he reiterated the fatwas banning both selling Palestinian land to “the enemies”...
Report: US to take Palestinian ‘right of return’ off the table
The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to soon unveil new policy that will cancel the Palestinians’ demand for “right of return” for its refugees and the refugees status of most of...
Mr. President: The Palestinians already got ‘their turn’
President Donald Trump said this week that following the move of the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, now the Palestinian Arabs “will get something very good because it’s their turn next.”
Somebody ought to explain to...
Is the International Criminal Court becoming a Palestinian propaganda engine?
The Palestinians have undertaken a regular mode of ceremonially issuing complaints to the International Criminal Court against Israeli leaders and military commanders regarding virtually everything Israel does.
These are clearly a series of public relations...
Poll shows Palestinian disinterest in negotiations with Israel, rejection of Oslo
A new poll of Palestinians shows that more than 60 percent agree that the Palestinian Authority should not engage in negotiations with Israel mediated by the United States, according to results published on Monday.
Overseen...
What makes a Palestinian parent proud? A son who recruits suicide-bombers
One of the signs of the Palestinian Authority’s successful indoctrination of its population to admire terrorists who have murdered civilians, is when parents of terrorists openly say they are “proud” of their terrorist sons, or describe...