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Abass’s office: ‘We will continue to support the prisoners in Israel and the families of the martyrs’

Baruch Yedid - TPS — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 03:53:34 +0000

The issue of prisoners is a top priority for the “Palestinian presidency,” and it demands their release at every official meeting, with Israelis or Americans or any international body. This is what Palestinian Presidential spokesman Nabil Abu Radina told Palestinian radio this morning. The spokesman referred to publications in the Israeli and Arab media on […]

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Abbas runs rings around Biden & Bennett

David Singer — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 01:10:13 +0000

It didn’t take long for President Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett to be shown up as inept political leaders following the much-publicised visit by President of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) and Chairman of Fatah its largest faction – Mahmoud Abbas – to the home of Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz. Their two-and-a-half […]

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

Melanie Phillips - JNS.org — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 04:19:03 +0000

Melanie Phillips: When it comes to the West, the Israelis not only fail to grasp the eye-watering depth and extent of Jew-hatred, they also don’t try to understand it.

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Israel authorizes deducting $180 million from Palestinian Authority over ‘pay for slay’

Israel Kasnett - JNS.org — Tue, 20 Jul 2021 06:05:07 +0000

Israel Kasnett: Israel’s Intelligence Minister Elazar Stern noted that within its first month, the new government has implemented the law “without public pressure and without a petition to the High Court.”

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

JNS — Fri, 09 Jul 2021 02:52:35 +0000

Those receiving funds will receive cards for withdrawing money from the P.A. postal bank using ATM machines.

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Esther Horgen’s killer can count on Abbas

Ruthie Blum - JNS — Wed, 06 Jan 2021 02:22:30 +0000

Ruthie Blum: In the warped world of Palestinian terrorists, having a friend die of an illness in an Israeli jail is sufficient cause to slaughter an innocent woman jogging through the forest near her home.

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Israel loans millions to help Palestinians avert virus-related crisis; will they use it for terror?

Israel Kasnett - JNS.org — Thu, 14 May 2020 00:56:32 +0000

Israel Kasnett: Pursuing banks that hold or transfer money for terrorists and/or their families makes much more sense since going after individual terrorists “is like putting a Band-Aid on cancer.”

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UK to release ‘pay to slay’ audits after Freedom of Information request

JNS — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 02:45:19 +0000

After a fight to keep them secret, the British government will comply with an order from its Information Commissioner to disclose reports regarding grant money allegedly used to pay salaries to terrorists.

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Trump should send Hamas, PLO and United Nations a clear message

David Singer — Tue, 07 May 2019 22:58:14 +0000

David Singer: The barrage of more than 700 rockets fired into Israel from Gaza this past weekend and the “pay for slay” policy pursued by the PLO to reward those Palestinian Arabs who murder and maim Jews cannot continue to be met by only pious condemnations from the United Nations or even from President Trump himself.

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Abbas rejects tax money from Israel, insists its funds go to terrorists and their families

JNS — Sun, 24 Feb 2019 03:35:54 +0000

“We reject the tax; we don’t want it,” Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas told visiting members of the U.S. Congress. “Frankly, if we are left with only 20 or 30 million shekels, which is the sum paid to families of martyrs, then we will pay them to the families of martyrs.”

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