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TEL AVIV – The White House announced on Monday that no Israeli government representative will be invited to take part in next week’s US-led  peace workshop in Bahrain, in which the Trump administration is set to unveil the economic part of its long-anticipated proposal. 

TEL AVIV – The Palestinian street is fuming over news that the Palestinian Authority secretly signed off on massive salary hikes and other perks for government ministers at a time when the Palestinian labor market was going through major cutbacks amid an economic crisis. 

TEL AVIV – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said next month’s U.S.-led peace conference in Bahrain will “go to hell,” as will President Donald Trump’s long-anticipated peace plan.

TEL AVIV – The ruling Palestinian Fatah party slammed Al Jazeera for removing an antisemitic video linking Zionism to Nazism and uploaded the video in its entirety to its official Facebook page.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas underwent a series of medical checks at a hospital in Berlin last week, a Ramallah-based official said.

TEL AVIV – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas told Arab states on Sunday that President Donald Trump’s long-awaited peace plan had “nothing to offer” the Palestinians and added that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had no interest in peace. 

TEL AVIV – The Arab League on Sunday pledged $100 million per month to the Palestinian Authority to cover the funds suspended by Israel in taxes and tariffs owed to the PA over the latter’s so-called “pay-for”slay” scheme paying salaries to terrorists and their families.

TEL AVIV – The Palestinians are turning to Russia for help in bypassing the long-anticipated U.S. “deal of the century” for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Palestinian officials said on Tuesday.

A senior Palestinian Authority official reportedly warned that Hamas means to exploit the economic situation in the West Bank and pay off PA officers and security forces to take control of the territory.

TEL AVIV – Palestinians hurled a Molotov cocktail at a police post on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on Tuesday, prompting a shutdown of the flashpoint holy site.

TEL AVIV – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas announced the appointment of Mohammad Shtayyeh as prime minister on Sunday, in a move that deepened the rift between the ruling Fatah faction and its rival group, the Gaza-ruling terror group Hamas.

TEL AVIV – U.S. Ambassador David Friedman slammed the official Palestinian Authority newspaper for running an opinion piece that described US President Donald Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East as a “mongoloid,” a derogatory term for a person with Down syndrom

Nabil Abu Rudeina, spokesman for Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, warned that Israel’s decision to deduct funds by withholding tax fees will have consequences, in a statement on Sunday night.

TEL AVIV — During a television interview, Breitbart Jerusalem Chief Aaron Klein backed up Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s assertion that the Arab world more immediately cares about defeating Iran than creating a Palestinian state.

TEL AVIV – The US has asked international banks to place a financial embargo on the Palestinian Authority in a bid to exert pressure on the Palestinians to accept the Trump administration’s long-awaited peace plan, a senior PA official said. 

The Palestinians on Monday called on Arab nations to boycott or downgrade their representation at a Mideast summit co-hosted by the United States, as Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas traveled to Saudi Arabia to discuss “the dangers facing the Palestinian cause.”

TEL AVIV – The Palestinian Authority has warned that Israel’s decision to implement legislation to cut off funding to the PA over its so-called pay-for-slay scheme will result in anarchy in the West Bank, with PA President Mahmoud Abbas saying that if Israel deducts even “one penny” from tax monies owed to the PA, the PA would not accept the money transfers. 

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday vowed to begin cutting funds to the Palestinian Authority over its payments to convicted terrorists and their families.

The Palestinians don’t want peace. And the Israelis can no longer afford to flatter would-be American peacemakers by accepting their unrealistic plans.

The United Nations (UN) is often a theater of the absurd, where events take place that represent the exact opposite reality. So it was with the Palestinians and the G-77 last week.

TEL AVIV – Israel’s UN envoy Danny Danon on Saturday called on the Security Council to condemn last week’s spate of attacks in Israel and to recognize them as acts of terror.

JERUSALEM – Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah group sent “all their love” on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the death of Palestinian “heroine” and bombmaker, Shadia Abu Ghazaleh, who died at home while making explosives to attack Israel.

TEL AVIV – In a rare move, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s ruling Fatah party said Sunday that it will stand behind its rival Hamas in opposing a U.S.-drafted resolution condemning the terror group at the United Nations General Assembly.

JERUSALEM – Cabinet Minister and former Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren called on human rights groups to condemn the Palestinian Authority over its incarceration of an American national over his alleged involvement in the sale of real estate to Jews and contended that failure to do constituted “racism.”

JERUSALEM – President Donald Trump’s envoy to Israel David Friedman has demanded the release of an American national who is being incarcerated by the Palestinian Authority over his alleged involvement in the sale of real estate to Jews.

TEL AVIV – Two Palestinians were sentenced to 15 years of hard labour after a Palestinian Authority court on Wednesday found them guilty of selling land to Jews.

TEL AVIV – The Palestinian move to join United Nations agencies as an independent nation is “counterproductive,” a US State Department official said over the weekend.

TEL AVIV – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas reiterated his vow Saturday to thwart President Donald Trump’s upcoming peace proposal and pledged to continue paying convicted terrorists and their families.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi has reportedly urged Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to accept a “graded reconciliation” with Hamas as part of a deal that would see the 82-year old take control of the Gaza Strip.

TEL AVIV – A Palestinian-American allegedly involved in the sale of Jerusalem real estate to Jews was lured to Ramallah two weeks ago under the pretense that he was required to sign some paperwork before being abducted by the Palestinian Authority and detained ever since, his wife told Breitbart in an exclusive interview Sunday. 

A top Palestinian body on Monday passed a motion urging Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to suspend all agreements with Israel and revoke recognition of the Jewish state until Israel formally recognizes a Palestinian state on the 1967 lines.

Egypt has warned PA President Mahmoud Abbas not to impose new sanctions on the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian official in Ramallah said on Wednesday.

A top Palestine Liberation Organization body will be reviewing agreements that the Palestinians had concluded with Israel, and could decide to abrogate many of them, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said in a television interview.

JERUSALEM – A Sharia judge for the Palestinian Authority claimed in a sermon that was broadcast on the PA’s official TV network that Jews “dance and live on the body parts of others, and on the blood of others,” and that “there is no global corruption that their rabbis did not allow.”

Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon excoriated Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas in a speech to the Security Council on Thursday.

TEL AVIV – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas thanked the leaders of J Street for their work lobbying the Trump administration against its recent decisions regarding the Palestinians during a meeting with the dovish policy group at his Ramallah headquarters.