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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s top internecine rival, Mohammad Dahlan, often mentioned as a possible candidate to succeed the 81-year-old leader, said Sunday he will not run for president in future Palestinian elections.

The Observer describes a decade-old audiotape that might come back to haunt Hillary Clinton, in which she seems to suggest rigging the 2006 elections for the Palestinian Legislative Council.

JERUSALEM – Palestinian college students are being encouraged to die by committing terrorist attacks rather than dying natural deaths, as per the inscription of a new monument erected in Al Quds University.

TEL AVIV – The niece of a senior official in Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party and a close confidant of the late leader Yasser Arafat said she loves the State of Israel so much she had the word “Israel” in Hebrew tattooed on her shoulder.

JERUSALEM – Palestinian children’s drawings posted by President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement show images of “Israel” drinking the blood of Palestinians and eating their bodies with knives and forks.

JAFFA, Israel – A large Palestinian family living in Jordan decided to celebrate a man who recently carried out a shooting attack in Jerusalem with a “wedding” attended by hundreds of guests to honor his “death as a martyr.”

Fatah, the ruling party in the Palestinian Authority, welcomed on Thursday a UNESCO resolution which fails to acknowledge Jewish ties to the Temple Mount.

JERUSALEM – It seems that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party just doesn’t know when to quit. A day after the faction praised Sunday’s “heroic” terror attack that killed two Israelis, Fatah celebrated the deaths by posting a cartoon of the Dome of the Rock with a victorious hand clutching an assault rifle atop the mosque.

TEL AVIV – The U.S. blasted the “reprehensible and cowardly” attack in Jerusalem in which an Arab terrorist shot and killed two Israelis and injured six others, and further slammed Palestinian factions for celebrating the shooting.

The United Nations’ peace envoy to the region denounced Sunday’s deadly shooting by a Palestinian gunman in Jerusalem, calling it a “terror attack” and censuring Hamas for encouraging such assaults.

After two people were killed during a shooting attack on Sunday, a video of the terrorist’s daughter was made public, in which she came out in defense of her father and stated how proud she is of his actions, which ultimately led to her father being shot and killed by Israel Police.

JERUSALEM – The Palestinian Authority’s official daily published a cartoon propagating the libel that Jews and Israel control the world by controlling every move the U.S. makes.

The latest anti-Semitic cartoon posted by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party shows a yarmulke-wearing hooked-nose Jew relaxing in an armchair etched with a Jewish Star of David while he uses a remote control to bomb buildings in Gaza.

The Palestinian government decided on Tuesday to delay the first municipal elections in a decade, originally scheduled for October 8, by several months.

JAFFA, Israel – Some Fatah factions have joined the chorus of critics condemning Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for attending former Israeli President Shimon Peres’ funeral on Friday.

The Palestinian high court on Monday ordered municipal elections to be held only in the West Bank and not in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, though a new date for the suspended polls was not set.

TEL AVIV – A senior Egyptian intelligence official derided Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to one of his main rivals in a newly leaked phone call, saying the Palestinian Authority chief is a “camel” who is old and stupid and that the Fatah party is “screwed” under his leadership.

JERUSALEM – The summer vacation may be over but the after effects of summer camps geared at inciting Palestinian youth to violence are still being felt by Israelis who are coming to terms with six terror attacks that rocked the country over the weekend.

JAFFA, Israel – Mixed-gender parties organized in conservative Gaza for last week’s Eid al Adha has sparked a controversy in the Strip, ruled by the Islamic movement Hamas.

TEL AVIV – Veteran Lebanese journalist Samir Atallah penned a scathing article on the Arab people’s inability to conduct negotiations without resorting to threats, as well as the hypocrisy of the Arab world’s outrage towards external threats like Israel, which may have demolished “a house or two” while Arabs destroy entire cities.

TEL AVIV – The Palestinian Minister of Justice dismissed stabbings as “baseless excuses” for what he termed the “murder” and “summary executions” of “unarmed” Palestinians following nine terror attacks in five days.

TEL AVIV – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday blamed the recent spate of terror attacks against Israelis on “martyrs” who had “lost hope.”

TEL AVIV – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah Movement praised the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics as a “heroic operation” that demonstrated the “courage and power” of Palestinians.

JAFFA, Israel – A Palestinian court decision to suspend next month’s local elections in the West Bank were the result of grave concerns among Fatah that they may lose to Hamas, a top Fatah official told Breitbart Jerusalem.

TEL AVIV – A Member of Parliament from the British Labour Party has called on the Home Secretary to bar a senior Palestinian officials and election contender from entry into the UK for inciting to terrorism.

TEL AVIV – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement has nominated the convicted murderer of six Israelis in a 1980 terror attack to run for election in Hebron’s municipal council, hailing the terrorist as a “hero” who carried out a “courageous operation.”

A Palestinian court on Thursday postponed municipal elections set for October 8 following disputes between the rival Fatah and Hamas movements over candidate lists.

Israel’s Defense Minister has said that if quiet from the Gaza Strip is maintained, he would be prepared to reintroduce Israeli work permits for Gazans for the first time since 2007.

TEL AVIV – The son of an American-Israeli murdered by Palestinian terrorists last year rejected a statement from an international organization for scouting claiming that a Palestinian scouts group responsible for naming a course after the murderer had no connection to the global scouts body.

Hamas once again has foiled an Islamic State attempt to set up a terror infrastructure in Gaza, a security official in the Strip told Breitbart Jerusalem.

TEL AVIV – IDF troops and the Shin Bet security agency shut down a Palestinian radio station and arrested five employees Wednesday morning for “broadcasting inciting programs,” the army said.

Tens of thousands of Palestinians on Sunday attended the funeral of a West Bank terrorist who was beaten to death by Palestinian policemen while in custody.

The alleged ringleader in the killing of two Palestinian policemen has died in custody after being beaten by security forces, a senior local official said on Tuesday.

Amid speculation over a developing Egyptian bid to revive stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations, Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi said late Sunday that Russian President Vladimir Putin was willing to host Israeli and Palestinian leaders for direct talks.

Palestinian political parties began registering candidates for municipal elections on Wednesday, the first step in years toward a democratic vote but one that threatens to re-inflame tensions between the rival Fatah and Hamas movements.

TEL AVIV – Palestinian children performed in a play depicting “Zionist jailers” executing “heroic prisoners” as part of a closing ceremony for summer camps organized by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party.