Enraged over Arab ties with Israel, Palestinians quit chairing Arab League sessions
Angered at the Arab world’s growing ties with Israel, the Palestinian leadership has quit their chairmanship of Arab League meetings, the Palestinian Authority’s foreign minister announced on Tuesday. Read more
The Abbas comedy and the ongoing Palestinian tragedy
May 21, 2020 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
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If you think you’ve seen this movie before, you’re right. Read more
President Rivlin discusses Coronavirus crisis with PA head Abbas
March 19, 2020 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
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President Reuven Rivlin spoke on Wednesday with Palestinian Authority (PA) head Mahmoud Abbas to discuss the Coronavirus crisis. Read more
Decision time
October 4, 2019 by Michael Kuttner
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The ten days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are a time for making decisions. Read more
As its popularity is challenged, Hamas keeps watchful eye over its Palestinian rival in Gaza
January 27, 2019 by Yaakov Lappin - JNS.org
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Tensions between Israel and the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip have sparked a number of armed conflicts and smaller scale flare-ups in the last decade. Yet within Gaza there is a web of internal tensions and simmering rivalries between Palestinian factions. So far, these have not posed a threat to Hamas’s iron grip on its enclave, but as its popularity is questioned, that might change one day. Read more
Prepare for the overdue “big one”
July 13, 2018 by Michael Kuttner
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Anticipated major earthquakes both geophysical and political are long overdue…writes Michael Kuttner. Read more
Abbas declares Israeli legislation won’t stop him from paying terrorists
In a meeting with Fatah Party leaders on Sunday, Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas declared that he would not stop paying salaries to convicted terrorists and their families, despite new Israeli legislation withholding funds in the amount paid to killers and attackers from taxes collected for the P.A. Read more
Prince William tells Abbas he hopes for a ‘lasting peace’ in the Middle East
Prince William met with Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday in Ramallah, telling the Palestinian leader he hopes for a “lasting peace” in the region. Read more
Post Purim hangovers
March 2, 2018 by Michael Kuttner
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Once the Purim carnival festivities are over and the masks removed the real world again intrudes into our daily lives. Read more
Priorities
February 9, 2018 by Michael Kuttner
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Decisions made by political leaders and those in authority usually reflect their priorities…writes Michael Kuttner. Read more
Abbas set to address Security Council to ask for full UN membership
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is scheduled to address the United Nations Security Council later this month amid growing tensions with the United States. Read more
The predictable liberal response to Pence
January 31, 2018 by Isi Leibler
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Listening to U.S. Vice President Mike Pence’s address to the Knesset was a euphoric experience…writes Isi Leibler. Read more
Ready – Steady – Go!
January 5, 2018 by Michael Kuttner
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The civil year 2018 is barely out of the starting blocks and we are already witnessing events which without a doubt will impact all of us no matter where we live…writes Michael Kuttner. Read more
Why Trump’s Palestinian aid cut threat makes sense
January 5, 2018 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
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We didn’t need the publication of a new book filled with behind-the-scenes gossip to know that Donald Trump is an unconventional and, at times, inappropriate president…writes Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS.org. Read more
PA denies report of Abbas demand that Hamas recognise Israel
The Palestinian Authority (PA) has refuted a report citing an alleged demand by PA President Mahmoud Abbas that members of the Gaza-ruling Palestinian terror group Hamas must recognise Israel if they want to be included in the cabinet of a unity government. Read more
How Balfour explains why the peace process failed
October 29, 2017 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
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It was a minor news story when it broke in the summer of 2016. Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas announced he was suing Great Britain over the Balfour Declaration, issued on Nov. 2, 1917…writes Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS.org. Read more
Birds of a feather, united by terror…writes Michael Kuttner
March 24, 2017 by Michael Kuttner
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They may fight each other and disagree on tactics but there is one thing guaranteed to unite them and that is hatred for Israel. Read more
Trumping Solutions…writes Emily Gian
February 17, 2017 by Emily Gian
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Two days ago, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and American President Donald Trump met in Washington for the first time since the latter was inaugurated. The greeting was done in a far warmer manner than similar meeting between Netanyahu and Trump’s predecessor Barack Obama. Read more
Inflammatory consequences…writes Michael Kuttner
December 2, 2016 by Michael Kuttner
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Incendiary incitement usually results in a burning desire to take action and so it proved this past week. Read more
After years of institutional ‘decay,’ Palestinians set for long-overdue elections
November 24, 2016 by Sean Savage - JNS.org
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Against the backdrop of this month’s long-overdue leadership elections for Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah political party, the Palestinians living in the West Bank face an uncertain future following more than a decade of stagnant rule…writes Sean Savage/JNS.org.
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Israel: Rhetoric v Reality
June 12, 2015 by Ron Weiser
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When discussing matters pertaining to Israel one of the challenges is how to differentiate between rhetoric and reality…writes Ron Weiser. Read more
When the president’s hero is a terrorist: a tale of two societies
May 6, 2015 by Stephen M.Flatow - JNS.org
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The president of a normal, civilized country naturally is anxious to distance himself from any suspicion of ever having had a connection to a terrorist. Read more
Israel launches campaign to discredit International Criminal Court inquiry
January 21, 2015 by Shlomo Cesana-Israel Hayom-JNS.org
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The Israeli government has launched a public diplomacy campaign to discredit the legitimacy of the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) recent decision to start an inquiry into what the Palestinians call Israeli “war crimes” in the disputed territories. Read more
Toxic Concoctions…writes Michael Kuttner
November 7, 2014 by Michael Kuttner
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Like the witches’ brew in Macbeth the cauldron of noxious ingredients is being stirred on a daily basis by Abbas and members of his Hamas/Fatah Authority. Read more
Duplicitous Abbas comes out of the closet…writes Isi Leibler
October 2, 2014 by Isi Leibler
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Even the few delusional apologists who maintain that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is a genuine partner for peace must have been stunned by his obscene and demagogic address on Rosh Hashana at the United Nations General Assembly. Read more
Abbas, Auschwitz, and Palestinian strategy…writes Ben Cohen
July 15, 2014 by Ben Cohen - JNS.org
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It was often remarked that the late Palestine Liberation Organization leader, Yasser Arafat, would sound moderate when speaking in English and utterly intransigent when speaking in Arabic. Much of the same could be said about his successor, Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority. Read more
Palestine – Abbas Facing Prosecution For Aiding And Abetting War Crimes…writes David Singer
July 13, 2014 by David Singer
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Mahmoud Abbas – Head of the Government of National Consensus in Gaza since 2 June – faces prosecution in the international criminal justice system for aiding and abetting war crimes involving the indiscriminate firing of 384 rockets and missiles from Gaza into Israeli population centres reaching as far away as Tel Aviv and Jerusalem over the past four days. Read more
Blaming Israel for the Collapse of the Peace Negotiations…writes Isi Leibler
April 7, 2014 by Isi Leibler
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All signs indicate that the moribund peace process has now formally collapsed. Read more
Achtung! – All Jews Out…writes Michael Kuttner
February 28, 2014 by Michael Kuttner
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Once upon a time not so many years ago, German politicians were telling Jews to get out and go to Palestine if they valued their lives. Well we all know how that eventually ended. Read more
Palestine – History and Geography Can Unblock Deadlock…writes David Singer
January 20, 2014 by David Singer
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It is a pity the US State Department chose to focus this week on the private remarks of Israel’s Minister of Defence labelling US Secretary of State John Kerry as being delusional and messianic – rather than concentrating on PLO Chairman Abbas’s very public remarks in the Jerusalem Post that go to the heart of the 130 years old Jewish-Arab conflict: Read more