A Ramadan intifada?

The Muslim month of Ramadan, which began on Friday night, is already proving to be the challenge that Israeli authorities had anticipated. Palestinians and radicalized Arab Israelis swarming the Old City of Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate on Saturday and Sunday attacked police, who were stationed at the site to keep the peace. Read more

42% of Arabs in Israel define themselves first as Arabs, 24% as Muslims and 17% as Palestinians

About 42% of Arabs in Israel define themselves first and foremost as Arabs, 24% define themselves primarily as Muslims, and about 17% define themselves as Palestinians, according to a new survey conducted for the Haifa Conference on Arab Politics and Society in Israel at Haifa University. Read more

PA remains silent on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

The Palestinian Authority and Hamas have maintained silence and prefer not to comment on the war in Ukraine due to the fear that taking a stand with one of the sides will harm their interests. Read more

Lapid: ‘Without peace talks, 2022 will likely see Israel designated apartheid state’

Israeli Foreign Minister has called for a diplomatic dialogue with the Palestinians, citing concerns that otherwise international organizations may designate Israel an apartheid state. Read more

PLO Central Committee demands Abbas renounces recognition of Israel

A source in the PLO has told TPS that the PLO Central Committee is pressuring its Executive Committee and its chairman, Abu Mazen, to renounce recognition of Israel before the end of the year of time that Abu Mazen had given Israel to withdraw from the Judea and Samaria. Read more

US, Israel remain at loggerheads over consulate to Palestinians in downtown Jerusalem

Israel and the United States remain at an impasse about American plans to reopen the U.S. consulate on Agron Road in downtown Jerusalem that was closed under former President Donald Trump. Read more

Biden backs UN racist plan to exclude Jews from East Jerusalem

Israel has a real fight on its hands in resisting President Biden’s push to re-open the US consulate in Jerusalem. Read more

In the face of European hypocrisy, time for Israel’s supporters to remake the cultural weather

The European Commission released on Tuesday its first official strategy on fighting antisemitism and promoting Jewish life. Read more

President Biden’s short road back

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The hate-fest that is Durban rears its ugly head again

Next week, the United Nations is set to reinforce infamy. In the wings of the U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York, it is to hold a 20th anniversary summit of its so-called World Conference against Racism that took place in Durban, South Africa, four days before the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Read more

P.A. issues included in the Bennett-Biden meeting

The Palestinian issue was discussed during the Israeli Prime Minister’s meeting with the President of the United States in Washington last Friday. Read more

US and UK demanding oversight of PA security forces following human rights violations

The Palestinian Authority (PA) arrested on Saturday 28 social activists, heads of organizations, and intellectuals, who took part in a protest rally in Manara Square in Ramallah against the PA following the death of political activist Nizar Banat, who died while being interrogated by the PA’s security forces. Read more

Why is support for ‘freedom of worship for Jews’ on the Temple Mount so controversial?

Maybe it was just the product of the ongoing civil war between the different political parties on the Israeli right. Or maybe it was just time that an Israeli prime minister said something that, in a saner world, wouldn’t be considered controversial. Read more

Visit of senior US official to PA – preparing for resumption of negotiations with Israel?

Palestinian and Arab sources have reported in recent days on accelerated diplomatic activity in preparation for the resumption of the diplomatic process between the Palestinian Authority (PA) and the Israeli government, mediated by Egypt and Jordan. Read more

Palestinian Authority introduces new way for terrorists, families to get cash

The Palestinian Authority has announced a new mechanism for disbursing payments to terrorists and their families by using ATMs at P.A. post offices, according to a report by MEMRI. Read more

UNRWA Gaza chief to take leave of absence amid uproar over Israeli airstrike remarks

The Gaza director of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) will be taking a “long leave of absence,” a spokesman for the agency said on Wednesday, according to Hebrew media reports. Read more

MDA vaccinates Palestinian workers

As part of the national effort to prevent the spread of the coronavirus in Israel, the government has decided to provide vaccinations to Palestinian workers with permits to work in Israel. Read more

Report reveals UNRWA continues antisemitic hate, incitement in schools

School material distributed by the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) continues to glorify Islamic jihad and incite violence in 2021 despite promises by UNRWA that the hateful content would be removed by last November, revealed a report published on Wednesday. Read more

Fatah official: ‘Criminal jackass’ Trump thrown into garbage bin of history

Senior Palestinian official Jibril Rajoub said in a recent interview that U.S. President Donald Trump, whom he referred to as a “criminal jackass,” had been thrown in the garbage bin of history, and that those Arab leaders that have normalized relations with Israel will share his fate. Read more

The COVID vaccine blood libel against Israel

The headline in The Guardian showed why so many people think Israel is the sum of all evil and deserving of international opprobrium. Read more

Trump will not let UN, PLO and Biden bury his Peace Plan

The Trump-haters are circling Trump’s liferaft promising a comprehensive Middle East peace – but Trump can repel their determined efforts to sink it if he is not nominated as President when the Electoral College votes on 14 December. Read more

The true Rabin legacy could be the basis of a national consensus

Twenty-five years after Yitzhak Rabin’s murder and still, the debate about his legacy heats up every year as the date of his memorial ceremony approaches. Read more

UN envoy to Palestinians: ‘Do not lose sight of goal of free Palestinian state’

U.N. Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolai Mladenov told a mass gathering in the Palestinian Authority on Monday “never to give up” their aspirations for statehood. Read more

Biden: West Bank annexation ‘will choke off hope for peace’

Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, the 2020 presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, said on Tuesday that if Israel applies sovereignty to parts of the West Bank, it would “choke off any hope for peace,” according to audio obtained by JNS. Read more

Danon confronts Palestinian representative during UN Security Council

Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon and his Palestinian counterpart sparred during a U.N. Security Council discussion on Thursday about Israel’s aid to the Palestinian Authority during the current coronavirus (COVID-19) worldwide outbreak. Read more

‘The woman’ … and her one-sided view of two peoples

Ilana Hammerman was not a familiar name. But the subtitle of her new book was irresistible: One Woman’s Story of Challenging Borders in Israel/Palestine. Read more

It’s not the money, honey

One would have thought by now everyone might have woken up to the fact that it is not a lack of money which prevents peace from breaking out between Israel and the PLO. Read more

Trump administration released tens of millions in aid to Palestinians

The Trump administration quietly released tens of millions of foreign aid to the Palestinian Authority recently that had been frozen as part of a review process. Read more

Palestinians call Israel’s anti-‘pay to slay’ law a ‘declaration of war’

Palestinian leaders slammed the passage of a new Israeli law that would deduct tax funds transferred to the Palestinian Authority over their policy of paying convicted terrorists and their families for carrying out attacks known as “pay to slay.” Read more

Wishful thinking isn’t enough when it comes to Mideast peace

President Trump’s peace plan for Israel and the Palestinian Arabs, his attempt at the “deal of the century,” will apparently soon be revealed to the world…writes Melanie Phillips/JNS. Read more

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