Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman on Tuesday pointed the finger at Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas for inciting Palestinian violence, saying attacks on Israelis were the direct result of inflammatory rhetoric ordered by Ramallah.
The incoming Trump administration plans to move ahead with its plans to move the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem regardless of criticism from Arab nations, CNN reported Monday.
Pope Francis will grant Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas an audience at the Vatican on Saturday, the Holy See confirmed indirectly Tuesday by announcing arrangements for media coverage of the visit.
An official says Palestinian leaders are calling for mosque and church prayers “from Pakistan to Tehran, from Lebanon to Oman” this weekend to protest the possible move of the US Embassy in Israel to contested Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV – Israeli soldiers murdered Santa Claus whom they alleged was trying to stab Israelis, according to a cartoon published in the official daily newspaper of the Palestinian Authority.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Tuesday he was “disappointed” to learn that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would not attend an international peace conference in Paris scheduled for January 15.
Thousands of people attended the funeral of an Israeli teenager Tuesday morning who was killed in a shooting attack at an Istanbul club during New Year’s festivities.
Arab social media users were not impressed with outgoing Secretary of State John Kerry’s speech outlining his vision of a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday told Fatah party officials that 2017 would be “the year of the independent Palestinian state.”
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Saturday he is willing to work with US President-elect Donald Trump to reach a two-state solution to the conflict with Israel.
The Palestinian Fatah movement is gearing up for the celebration of the 52th anniversary of the Palestinian revolution, a day that doubles as the official anniversary of the movement’s establishment.
TEL AVIV – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas imposed conditions on resuming peace talks with Israel, saying an end to settlement construction and an implementation of existing agreements were necessary in order for the Palestinians to return to the negotiating table.
An Egyptian paper has published what it claims are the transcripts of meetings between top US and Palestinian officials that, if true, would corroborate Israeli accusations that the Obama administration was behind last week’s UN Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements.
TEL AVIV – The Palestinian Authority is gathering details on hundreds of Israeli soldiers in order to bring them before the International Criminal Court, a prominent Palestinian journalist and confidant of PA President Mahmoud Abbas said Sunday.
TEL AVIV – Following the passage of an anti-Israel resolution at the United Nations, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party posted a cartoon on its official Facebook page on Saturday, featuring a large knife stabbing “settlements” and the words “Thank You” to the countries that voted for the resolution.
An Arab MK accused of passing telephones and SIM cards to a pair of Palestinian security prisoners is also suspected of handing “intelligence information” to one of the two, Channel 2 television reported Monday.
France has postponed a proposed Middle East peace conference in Paris to January next year, its ambassador to the United Nations said, acknowledging that the conditions to bring Israelis and Palestinians face-to-face were currently not there.
Tens of thousands of Palestinians, including hundreds of gunmen and children dressed as terrorists and waving mock weapons, rallied in Gaza on Wednesday in support of the militant Islamic group Hamas that rules the territory on the 29th anniversary of its founding.
A Palestinian court sentenced on Wednesday Palestinian lawmaker Mohammed Dahlan to three years in prison after convicting him in absentia of stealing $16 million.
Two-thirds of Palestinians believe a two-state solution to their conflict with Israel is no longer possible, a poll said Tuesday.
The Palestinian Authority’s Arab allies have become disenchanted with President Mahmoud Abbas after he and his cronies were reelected at last week’s Fatah Convention, a senior Palestinian official told Breitbart Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV – The official TV station belonging to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party aired a music video celebrating the terror-filled history of the party no less than 72 times in November, according to a report by Israeli watchdog Palestinian Media Watch.
Two Hamas terrorists were killed while working on an attack tunnel intended for an infiltration from Gaza into Israel collapsed in the territory near the border with Israel, according to a statement issued by the group.
JERUSALEM – The Palestinian Authority official television network broadcast a song praising President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party for its call to “slice open” Israel’s chest on no less than eleven occasions in under a week.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas tightened his hold on Fatah and shut out a key rival, according to unofficial results Sunday of leadership elections in the movement which has dominated West Bank politics for decades.
TEL AVIV – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas expressed hope that Donald Trump would support the quest for an independent Palestinian state, despite his declaration that Palestinians “know nothing about” the president-elect.
Contents: Mahmoud Abbas, 81, reelected leader of Fatah/Palestinian Authority; Hopes again grow for Gaza-West Bank unity government
TEL AVIV — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was re-elected to lead the Fatah party for the next five years at its first congress in seven years on Tuesday.
JERUSALEM – A Palestinian Authority TV children’s program told its young viewers that Israel murdered late leader Yasser Arafat along with “many of our people.” “They killed Yasser Arafat, because until his final breath he defended the children of his
TEL AVIV – The Palestinian Authority’s official TV network has been airing a video several times a day accusing Israel of poisoning former leader Yasser Arafat and further claiming that Israel is targeting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas next.
Days after the 12th anniversary of the death of Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leaders descended into new recriminations over who may have been involved in the demise of the former president.
Dozens of Palestinian Authority public servants in Gaza have reportedly not yet received last month’s salary after being suspected by President Mahmoud Abbas of being loyal to his main challenger within the Fatah movement, Mohammed Dahlan.
Hamas has stepped up measures against Islamic State loyalists in the Gaza Strip, an official in the movement told Breitbart Jerusalem.
JERUSALEM – Israel is plotting to assassinate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas just as it murdered PLO chief Yasser Arafat, members of the Palestinian Authority and Fatah have claimed.
Israel on Monday formally rejected France’s invitation to take part in a Middle East peace conference in Paris later this year, saying it was a distraction from the goal of direct negotiations with the Palestinians.
The Palestinian Constitutional Court, a body set up months ago by President Mahmoud Abbas, ruled on Sunday that he can revoke the parliamentary immunity of lawmakers, a move that effectively allows him to sideline rivals.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday told visiting Italian President Sergio Mattarella that Israel was “gravely disappointed” by Italy’s abstention in a UNESCO vote last month that ignored Jewish and Christian links to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, but was heartened to hear a subsequent pledge from Italy’s prime minister that it would oppose such resolutions in the future.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ movement welcomed a shooting in the West Bank that left three Israeli soldiers wounded.
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.
JERUSALEM – The Palestinian Authority has defended its decision to name a school after the mastermind of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre, calling Israel “deluded” for demanding that Palestinians not honor “martyrs.”
