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Israeli forces foil stabbing north of Jerusalem

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Israeli security personnel thwarted a stabbing attack at a checkpoint between Jerusalem and Ramallah in Samaria on Thursday. According to initial reports, the terrorist advanced towards Israeli troops guarding the Ofer checkpoint while holding a...

Is Israel taking Ramadan restraint too far?

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“Israel’s policy has always been, and always will be, to safeguard freedom of worship for all faiths,” said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday at the start of a special session with cabinet members and security...
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah, Samaria, Jan. 10, 2023. Credit: U.S. Department of State.

In Ramallah meeting, Blinken calls for Palestinian state

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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken expressed support for "tangible steps" towards the creation of a Palestinian state in Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip during a meeting with Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas...
Omani Foreign Minister Sayyid Badr Albusaidi (left) with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, 2022. Photo by Freddie Everett/State Department via Wikimedia Commons.

Omani FM seeking Temple Mount visit during Ramallah trip

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Omani Foreign Minister Sayyid Badr Albusaidi plans to visit Palestinian Authority-controlled Ramallah in the coming weeks and is seeking to visit the Temple Mount in Jerusalem in coordination with Israeli authorities. Albusaidi contacted the Israeli...
Muslims wave Hamas flags after Friday prayers during Ramadan, on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, April 22, 2022. Photo by Jamal Awad/Flash90.

Hamas terrorist caught planning attack in Jerusalem

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Israeli security personnel arrested a Hamas terrorist on Thursday who was planning to carry out a shooting attack in Jerusalem. According to police, the 29-year-old Palestinian from Ramallah was detained while trying to acquire a...
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas heads for a meeting of the P.A. leadership in Ramallah. May 7, 2020. Photo by Flash90.

Palestinian terror factions blast Abbas, PA over recent appointments

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Hamas and other Palestinian terror factions have refused to acknowledge a series of recent appointments made by Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas, according to a report by The Jerusalem Post. “ no recognition of, and no...
Caricatures of the late Palestinian Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat in the new Yasser Arafat Museum in Ramallah, January 2022. Source: Twitter/Khaled Abu Toameh.

What the row over caricatures of Yasser Arafat tells us about Palestinian politics

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A perennial discussion in the cauldron that is Middle Eastern politics concerns the degree to which a sovereign Palestinian state, should one ever be created, would be democratic. The democratic character of any state is...
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas (left) with Israeli Health Minister and Meretz head Nitzan Horowitz at the Muqata in Ramallah, Oct. 3, 2021. Source: Twitter.

Meretz’s pilgrimage to Ramallah

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If anything illustrates the farcical nature of the current makeup of the government in Jerusalem, it’s the parley in Ramallah on Sunday evening between Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas and a delegation of Israel’s Meretz Party,...
Hamas is also turning up the heat, hoping to one day seize control of the West Bank from Fatah as it did in Gaza.

Could Palestinian protests lead to the ouster of Mahmoud Abbas?

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As unrest continues in Ramallah and Hebron, questions have arisen surrounding the future of Palestinian Authority (PA) leader Mahmoud Abbas. For the fifth straight day Monday, protesters called for the ouster of Abbas following the...
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meeting with Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah on May 25, 2021. Source: U.S. State Department/Twitter.

Blinken to Abbas: US to reopen Jerusalem consulate and provide economic aid to Palestinians

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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday in Ramallah, where he promised him the that United States would reopen the Jerusalem consulate for the Palestinians. “As I...