President Donald Trump on Wednesday declared that “it is time to officially recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel,” calling the move “a long overdue step to advance the peace process.”
TEL AVIV — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas strongly objected to the move of the American embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, his office said in a special statement released Tuesday and carried by the official Palestinian news agency.
WASHINGTON — The US House of Representatives passed on Tuesday the Taylor Force Act, legislation that would cut US funding to the Palestinian Authority unless it discontinues its practice of paying monthly stipends to the families of terrorists who kill Israelis.
President Donald Trump took the first steps Tuesday towards moving the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, allowing the six-month waiver to the Jerusalem Embassy Act to expire, and contacting leaders in the Middle East to indicate his intentions.
The Gaza-ruling Palestinian terror group Hamas on Sunday called on Palestinian Authority (PA) Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah to change his policy toward Hamas or resign.
Azzam al-Ahmad, the head of Fatah’s delegation for Palestinian reconciliation, on Monday night said Iran is the “number one sponsor” of division between Palestinian factions.
TEL AVIV – The Palestinian Authority’s official newspaper on Sunday ran an article claiming that Israel and the U.S. were behind Friday’s terror attack in a mosque in northern Sinai in which 305 were killed.
TEL AVIV — Reconciliation talks between the Palestinian faction concluded Thursday in Cairo without achieving any breakthrough to bring the Palestinian Authority back in full control of the Gaza Strip.
TEL AVIV — Egyptian intelligence has told the Palestinian factions that it will send a delegation to the Gaza Strip to oversee the enforcement of the reconciliation understandings between Hamas, Fatah and the rest of the Palestinian groups, a Palestinian official participating in reconciliation talks in Cairo told Breitbart Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV — An alleged decision by the Palestinian Authority to freeze PLO meetings with the American administration drew responses from other PLO members, including some groups who accused the PA of using the alleged decision in their internal disputes.
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Tuesday rebuffed the Palestinian Authority’s claim that it has frozen communications with the United States over Washington’s recent threat to shutter the Palestine Liberation Office’s DC office.
TEL AVIV – An Israeli report claiming that the Trump administration had formulated a peace plan recognizing a Palestinian state without evacuating existing West Bank settlements is untrue, American and Israeli officials said.
TEL AVIV — Jihadists in the Gaza Strip affiliated with the Iran-backed Islamic State and other Salafist terrorist organizations won’t allow alcohol and nightclubs to return to Gaza along with the Palestinian Authority, one senior jihadist told Breitbart Jerusalem.
Disputes between Hamas and Fatah on issues that lie at the heart of Palestinian reconciliation may turn into a security nightmare for Israel and Egypt, an Arab security source has told Breitbart Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV — The Palestinian Public Relations Ministry told the radio station “Ahla FM” that it intends to shut down the broadcaster if it doesn’t fire one of the female reporters working for the station who has taken a critical line toward the Palestinian Authority.
TEL AVIV — The Palestinian Authority plans to continue paying the salaries of the Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons, which includes convicted terrorists, according to Dr. Nabil Shath, a senior adviser to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee unanimously passed the Taylor Force Act (House Resolution 1164) on Wednesday, taking the United States government one step closer to cutting funding to the Palestinian Authority (PA) if it refuses to end its practice of “pay for slay,” which involves rewarding terrorists for killing Americans and Israelis.
The Palestinian Authority (PA) has denied reports that PA President Mahmoud Abbas was presented with an ultimatum by Saudi Arabia to accept a peace deal outlined by the Trump administration or to resign from his position.
TEL AVIV – Saudi Arabia told Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas that he must either accept a proposal being drafted by the Trump administration aimed at reaching a final status solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict or resign, Israel’s Channel 10 reported.
Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon discussed his address to the Zionist Organization of America on Monday’s Breitbart News Daily with SiriusXM host Alex Marlow.
TEL AVIV – Palestinians may revert to endorsing a one-state solution for Arabs and Jews – a scenario that would mean the end of the Jewish state – if the now “endangered” two-state solution fails, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Saturday.
TEL AVIV – The Trump administration has begun drafting a proposal based on a two-state solution to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, The New York Times cited analysts and officials as saying on Saturday.
Those who speak blithely of re-dividing Jerusalem assume that tensions will be thereby eased; that Palestinians will live peacefully under their own administration while Jews live peacefully under theirs; that security cooperation between the two sides can offset whatever dangers arise, and so on. The opposite is true.
TEL AVIV — Hamas suspects that members of its security forces, particularly prison guards, may have aided in an attempted assassination of a Hamas official two weeks ago, according to a senior jihadist in Gaza.
TEL AVIV — The Palestinian “resistance” in Gaza will not be disarmed as part of the recent reconciliation deal between the Strip and the government in Ramallah, according to Fatah official Abbas Zaki who spoke to Palestinian media.
TEL AVIV — The weapons of the “resistance” in the hands of various Palestinian jihadi organizations is an internal Palestinian issue, Fatah official Iyad Nasser told Breitbart Jerusalem in wake of recent escalation in the Gaza Strip.
TEL AVIV – The Taylor Force Act—named after a U.S. Army veteran who was killed in a terror attack in Tel Aviv— that would force the Palestinian Authority to end its “pay-for-slay” program offering monthly stipends to convicted terrorists or else forfeit aid, is predicted to pass a critical vote next Wednesday.
TEL AVIV – Former secretary of state John Kerry accused Israel of not wanting peace and added that the Palestinians have been “extraordinary” in their commitment to nonviolence but that the Jewish state would face another bout of attacks if there wasn’t any progress in negotiations.
Israel’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories Maj. Gen. Yoav Mordechai on Wednesday instructed the country’s Coordination and Liaison Authority to set up meetings with the Palestinian Authority (PA) on the issue of Gaza Strip border crossings with the Jewish state.
TEL AVIV — Hamas is treating the issue of reconciliation with the Fatah movement and the Palestinian Authority as a strategic one, according to the organization’s Gaza chief, Yahya Sinwar, who added during a meeting with unions in Gaza that divisions will not be allowed to continue.
Yahya Sinwar, the political chief in Gaza for the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas, stated on Tuesday that the group’s military capability is better than ever, and reiterated that it will not disarm as part of a reconciliation deal with Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party.
JERUSALEM – A Palestinian university welcomed incoming students with a giant banner depicting Palestinian arch-terrorists as “heroes.”
TEL AVIV — Jordanian authorities have decided not to open any official Hamas embassy or consulate in the kingdom, according to a report in the Jordanian Al Ghad newspaper.
JERUSALEM – A top aide to US President Donald Trump said Thursday that an emerging Palestinian unity government must recognise Israel and disarm Hamas, Washington’s first detailed response to a landmark reconciliation deal signed last week.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s security cabinet on Tuesday announced the Israeli government would cease all so-called peace talks with the Palestinian Authority after it secured a reconciliation deal last week with the Hamas terrorist organization unless Hamas met certain conditions.
NEW YORK — Now that the Palestinian Authority and the Hamas terrorist organization have sealed a pact to create a unity government, the Trump administration should immediately halt all attempts to broker an Israeli-Palestinian deal, argued Breitbart Jerusalem chief Aaron Klein.
Fatah and Hamas agreed in talks in Cairo last week to make joint decisions on matters related to escalating violent conflict with Israel as well as making peace, the London-based Arabic daily Asharq al-Awsat reported on Sunday, citing well-informed Palestinian sources.
Israel must immediately terminate its relations with the Palestinian Authority due to the deal it signed with Hamas in Cairo, Bayit Yehudi chairman Naftali Bennett said on Saturday night.
TEL AVIV — Hamas has decided to hand the Palestinian Authority responsibility over “everything above ground” in the Gaza Strip, according to a report Thursday in the London-based international Saudi newspaper Al Hayat.
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