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JERUSALEM – Palestinian Authority spokesman Adnan Al-Damiri claimed that Israel was behind the recent terrorist attacks in Brussels, according to translations provided by Palestinian Media Watch (PMW). Suggesting that it was too much of a coincidence that the attacks occurred when European support for a

The Jerusalem Post reports: In June 2014, just prior to the conclusion of his tenure as president, Shimon Peres flew to Rome where he joined Pope Francis and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in a united prayer service for peace.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday he hoped the United States would continue to reject any move towards a U.N. Security Council resolution backing Palestinian statehood. “A Security Council Resolution to pressure Israel would further harden Palestinian positions

TEL AVIV – The terrorist attacks in Brussels, Paris, San Bernardino, Istanbul and the daily attacks by Palestinians in Israel are part of the same assault, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in his address to the annual policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) on Tuesday.

TEL AVIV – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas rejected the idea of a violent struggle against Israel and stated that a Palestinian state would be established only by diplomatic means, the Jerusalem Post reported. “We are now engaging in a

TEL AVIV — Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon criticized the Iran nuclear deal on Monday, saying it will pave the way for Iranian dominance of the Middle East, and slammed President Barack Obama’s mishandling of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Israel said it was struggling to “understand the logic” of a French peace initiative favored by the Palestinians after Israeli foreign ministry officials met with a French envoy in Jerusalem on Monday. France is lobbying for an international peace conference

TEL AVIV – Israel’s Science, Technology, and Space Minister Ofir Akunis on Saturday accused Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of being the worst inciter against Israel over the past six months of violence, the Times of Israel reported. “The [Palestinian] Authority has

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) – Palestinian schoolteachers agreed to end a month-long strike on Saturday, heeding a call by President Mahmoud Abbas to go back to work despite only some of their demands being met, the teachers’ union said. More

The Jerusalem Post reports: “Choose love, not hate”  Lakin Avni told US Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday as he urged him to push the Obama administration to clamp down on Palestinian terrorism. “The American government is funding [Palestinian Authority

TEL AVIV – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party praised the murder of an American tourist in Jaffa on Tuesday, calling the terrorist a “heroic martyr,” Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) reported. On its official Facebook page, Fatah posted a sketch

The Jerusalem Post reports:  The Palestinian Authority said on Tuesday that it was unaware of any new US effort to resume the stalled peace process with Israel.  Ahmed Majdalani, member of the PLO Executive Committee, said that the PA leadership

TEL AVIV – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas sent a condolence letter to the family of a Palestinian terrorist killed on Friday, writing that the terrorist was “a martyr who quenched the land of Palestine with her pure soul.” Amani Hosni

TEL AVIV – A new plan to separate Jerusalem’s Jewish and Arab neighborhoods has been rejected by both sides of the Israeli political spectrum as well as the Palestinians, according to an article in The New York Times. The plan, which was promoted by a group of liberal Israelis and supported in principle by the leftwing Labor party, would divide eastern Jerusalem’s Palestinian neighborhoods from the rest of the city and transfer responsibility for about two-thirds of the capital’s Arabs to the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank.

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden will travel to the Middle East on Saturday for a five-day trip that will include visits to the United Arab Emirates, Israel, West Bank and Jordan, the White House said on Wednesday. During the trip,

TEL AVIV – Ongoing violence in the West Bank combined with recent initiatives by Iran and its proxy terrorist group Hezbollah may motivate Fatah members to resume their armed struggle against Israel, a senior Palestinian security source told Breitbart Jerusalem.

JERUSALEM – The Palestinian Authority’s official TV channel broadcast an Islamic cleric claiming that if fish fight among themselves, the Jews are behind it. He added, “As long as the Jews are causing devastating corruption, humanity will never live in comfort,” Palestinian Media Watch reported.

TEL AVIV – The Palestinian Authority on Sunday demanded Iran channel the funds promised to the families of Palestinian terrorists through official channels and not award it directly to the families.
Nabil Abu Rudeina, spokesman for President Mahmoud Abbas, said Iran’s failure to do so would demonstrate interference in internal Palestinian affairs.

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The Jerusalem Post reports: GAZA – A senior leader of the Islamist group Hamas said the Palestinian movement was not seeking a new war with Israel and insisted a network of tunnels it is digging, some of which have reached

TEL AVIV – A Hamas member held in Israeli prison has broken medical records by surviving a 90-day hunger strike — longer than fasts by other Palestinians or Irish prisoners in 1981, the Times of Israel reported. In an attempt to persuade

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry urged calm in talks on Sunday with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on tensions between Israelis and Palestinians in the West Bank and Jerusalem, and reaffirmed the U.S. commitment to a two-state solution to the

JERUSALEM – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement published an image of a dying terrorist whose blood marks the borders of “Palestine,” which encompasses the entire State of Israel, Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) reported.

The Jerusalem Post reports: U.S.Secretary of State John Kerry Kerry, who arrived in Jordan on Saturday, is expected to hold talks in Amman with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday. No trip to Israel is planned. Kerry, accompanied by the

The Jerusalem Post reports: Marah Diab, a 10-year-old girl from Gaza who suffered from kidney failure, died Wednesday night after endless waiting for permission to leave Gaza for life-saving treatment, Palestinian media reported on Thursday. Diab had been waiting for life-saving

JAFFA, Israel – Fatah strongman Mohammed Dahlan (pictured) has condemned the Palestinian Authority for continuing its security cooperation with Israel after a top member of the movement was arrested by the Israeli army. Dahlan publicly rebuked Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas,

The Times of Israel reports: The Israeli army overnight arrested the head of the Palestinian Tanzim terrorist organization, the Shin Bet security service said Monday. The group is allied to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah movement. Jamal Abu Lel,

The Times of Israel reports: In a striking rejection of relentless international efforts to broker new talks, Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki said Monday that the Palestinians will “never” return to direct negotiations with Israel. Peace talks collapsed in

TEL AVIV – Top Hamas official Moussa Abu Marzouk met with Lebanese Prime Minister Tammam Salam (pictured above) and other officials in Beirut on Wednesday, Hamas announced in an online statement.

JAFFA, Israel – A Saudi man sentenced to four year’s imprisonment on terror charges surprised authorities with the copious amounts of pornography found on his personal computer alongside bomb-making instructions.

Israel plans to increase the number of entry permits it grants to Palestinian workers, Palestinian and Israeli sources said on Monday, in a drive to ease economic hardship that has contributed to a wave of Palestinian terrorist attacks. Publicly, the

TEL AVIV – Israel is a snake that targets Muslim and Christian holy sites, according to a cartoon published in the official Palestinian Authority daily, Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) reported. The cartoon (below, right) depicts a snake with the head

TEL AVIV – In its latest glorification of terrorism, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement took to Twitter to urge Palestinians to take up their weapons and become martyrs in the struggle against the Israeli enemy, Palestinian Media Watch (PMW)

Nissim Hakmon and his neighbors say they hear banging and clattering at night. They are convinced it can only mean one thing: Hamas is tunneling under their homes from Gaza and will one day emerge, guns blazing, to attack or

TEL AVIV – A Left-leaning Meretz official accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of giving the French “the middle finger” following France’s threat to recognize Palestine in the absence of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.

Tel Aviv – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called on the UN Security Council to provide the Palestinians with international protection from Israel amid fears that the Israeli government’s policies “would lead to the entry of Daesh [the Islamic State] into