The Jerusalem Post reports: Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday called for NATO forces to replace the IDF in the West Bank as part of as part of any peace deal that leads to the creation of a two-state solution.
TEL AVIV – The Secretary-General of the Palestinian Presidency delivered a speech this week on behalf of President Mahmoud Abbas extolling the Palestinian people for “loving death more than life” and promising that the Israeli “tyrants” and “aggressors will end up in the trash bin of history.”
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — A gated community of villas with well-tended flower gardens near the West Bank town of Ramallah may help explain why Palestinians almost universally believe there is corruption in the government of President Mahmoud Abbas.
JERUSALEM – Just in case anyone missed it the first time around, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party reiterated its praise for the terrorists of the 1972 attack on Israel’s airport after it was first reported that the political party was honoring the surviving gunman, Kozo Okamoto, ahead of the anniversary of the attack.
TEL AVIV – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party praised the gunmen who killed 24 people when they attacked an Israeli airport in 1972.
Contents: Netanyahu’s selection of Avigdor Lieberman criticized in and out of Israel; Lieberman’s lack of experience compared to Amir Peretz
TEL AVIV – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday called on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to accept the French initiative for reviving the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, saying his failure to do so “will bring the Islamic State to Israel.”
JERUSALEM – A news report on a children’s event broadcast on Palestinian Authority TV News included a young Palestinian girl’s hate speech claiming that the Jews kill Muslim worshipers at Al-Aqsa Mosque and that they imprison small children.
The Jerusalem Post reports: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked heads of diplomatic missions and religious communities on Thursday to encourage Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to accept his offer to talk peace.
JAFFA, Israel – The death of three children in a house fire on Gaza has sparked a fierce media war between Fatah and Hamas.
TEL AVIV – The Israel Defense Forces has no intention to escalate the situation along the Israel-Gaza border but it will continue operations to detect and destroy Hamas terror tunnels, IDF Spokesperson Lt. Col. Peter Lerner said om Sunday.
TEL AVIV – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas this week confirmed that the Palestinian Authority is continuing its policy of paying salaries to jailed terrorists, despite having previously claimed that it ceased to do so.
TEL AVIV – A senior official in Jerusalem denied a report on Saturday that claimed Germany is growing increasingly frustrated with Israel’s settlement policies and Chancellor Angela Merkel has said she understands why Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is seeking the support of the UN Security Council.
JERUSALEM – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement promoted a Palestinian university’s student group with a poster showing a knife dripping in blood and the accompanying instruction to plant the knife in the heart of your enemy.
JAFFA, Israel – An overwhelming majority of young Palestinians reject cooperating with Israelis even if they share their neighbor’s vision on the solution to the conflict, a new poll has found.
The parents of the Jerusalem bus bomber said they were shocked to learn that their son was both involved with the Hamas terror organization and that he was the perpetrator behind “such an act” against innocent people, but that nevertheless, Israel and the Jews were ultimately to blame.
TEL AVIV – Peace will come when the world and the Palestinians realize that direct negotiations is the only way forward, Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations contended in an op-ed published in the Los Angeles Times.
The Jerusalem Post reports: A set of Palestinian initiatives aimed at advancing policy through anti-Israel measures at international organizations, or using international forums, appear to be in disarray following a series of setbacks.
TEL AVIV – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas accused Israel at the United Nations on Friday of destroying the environment by building settlements in the West Bank. Speaking during the signing ceremony of the Paris Agreement on climate change at the UN
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The Palestinian president and Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations traded barbs on Friday during a signing ceremony for the Paris climate accord, in the latest example of continuing Israeli-Palestinian tensions. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who
A comment made by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas earlier this week about the PA’s security cooperation with Israel has caused outrage in the various Palestinian factions.
TEL AVIV – Two days after the bus bombing in Jerusalem, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement posted a chilling video on its Facebook page calling on young Palestinians to become martyrs by carrying out stabbing attacks against Israelis.
TEL AVIV – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party praised Monday’s bus bomb in Jerusalem even while Abbas himself reacted by denouncing “all forms of terrorism.”
Contents: Israel’s Netanyahu vows revenge for terrorist bombing in Jerusalem; Mahmoud Abbas lobbies to revive international interest in Palestinians; In a new catastrophe, hundreds of migrants drown in the Mediterranean Sea; China’s bond market starts to unravel
The Times of Israel reports: Aware of Germany’s commitment to Israel in light of the Holocaust, the Palestinians will not ask Berlin to abandon its traditionally pro-Israel position, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said on the eve of a visit
Speaking at the gala dinner of J Street, a George Soros-funded Mideast advocacy group that is critical of Israeli policies, Vice President Joe Biden acknowledged “overwhelming frustration” with Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, saying the prime minister is leading the Jewish state in the wrong direction.
The Palestinians expect the international community to not only state clearly that Jewish settlements in the West Bank represent a major obstacle to peace but to actually do something about it, a top adviser to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told Breitbart Jerusalem in an interview.
Members of organizations belonging to the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) have voiced unprecedented criticism against its head, President Mahmoud Abbas, for his “obsequious” attitude toward Israel. The Abbas loyalist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and the Democratic
The Jerusalem Post reports: Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has decided to cut off PLO funds to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a leader of the PFLP said on Monday. The Marxist PFLP is the second-largest group
Sen. Bernie Sanders continues to embarrass himself by making uninformed and false anti-Israel statements that seem to parrot radical left, BDS-style, Palestinian propaganda talking points.
JERUSALEM – The White House has not yet decided whether it will support a Palestinian initiative for a UN Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements in the West Bank. On Friday, State Department spokesperson Mark Toner told reporters in Washington: “We understand
JERUSALEM — Recent comments by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas critical of Palestinian stabbing attacks against Israelis have caused controversy among journalists and factions in the Palestinian Liberation Organization other than Abbas’s own Fatah party. In the interview with Israel’s Channel
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Palestinian UN Mission says it has circulated a proposed Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements to Arab nations. The draft was condemned Thursday by Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who said Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas
JERUSALEM – Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti (pictured), who is serving five life sentences in an Israeli prison, called on the Palestinians in a recent column to unite and turn the current wave of terror attacks into a “comprehensive intifada.” Barghouti, who
JERUSALEM – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas defined all of Israel as an “occupation ” in an Arabic-language interview, contradicting comments he has made in the past to the Israeli media. Abbas, ostensibly Israel’s best option as a partner in peace talks,
JERUSALEM – A senior official from Fatah, the party of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, called the United States “the number one enemy of the Palestinian people” in a recent television interview. Jamal Muhaisen, a member of the Fatah Central Committee, made the comments in an interview aired on official PA TV on March 23.
The Jerusalem Post reports: Prime Minister Bejmain Netanyahu once again invited Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to Jerusalem for talks, four days after Abbas said in a Channel 2 interview that he was waiting for such an invitation. “A few
The Times of Israel reports: The Palestinian Authority president reached out to Israel on Thursday, saying he opposes near-daily Palestinian attacks on Israelis and suggesting the violence would stop if the defunct peace process were to resume. Israel has accused
Haaretz reports: The Palestinian Authority is “on the brinks of collapse” if the current situation continues, PA President Mahmoud Abbas warned in an interview, broadcast Thursday night, with Channel 2 journalist Ilana Dayan. Abbas said he was insisting on continuing security
The Jerusalem Post reports: Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said on Thursday he was working to stop Palestinian knife attacks and other street violence against Israel and had offered to meet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to rekindle peace efforts. The
