TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party will vote against the creation of a Palestinian state on Tuesday, a move which will trigger a chain of events including the probable collapse of the Palestinian Authority.
TEL AVIV – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ ruling Fatah party on Saturday called for a campaign “to take control of the Al-Aqsa mosque.”
TEL AVIV – Pictures released by the IDF and by ZAKA International Rescue Unit Sunday show the carnage of Friday’s Shabbat dinner killing spree in the West Bank settlement of Halamish.
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday night said a “human animal with abhorrent hatred” murdered three Israeli family members from the West Bank Halamish community on Friday night.
In a landmark case, a Jerusalem court this week ruled that the Palestinian Authority (PA) must pay damages to 51 Palestinians who were imprisoned and systematically subjected to “unimaginable torture” by the PA from 1990-2003.
Contents: Palestinian ‘day of rage’ in Jerusalem results in six deaths, hundreds injured; Power struggle over metal detectors as Mahmoud Abbas threatens to cut ties
Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas is on an official three-day visit to China, with the goal of building economic and diplomatic ties.
The Palestinian Authority’s 2017 budget shows a “huge increase” in the funding of salaries for imprisoned terrorists and the families of “martyrs,” an Israeli research institute revealed on Wednesday.
JERUSALEM – A 17-year-old terrorist who was shot and killed earlier this year while throwing Molotov cocktails at Israelis is “martyr and bird in Paradise,” a Palestinian Authority official told his family.
Israel has no historic or religious right or affinity to the al-Aqsa Mosque, and “Israel’s actions in that place are unilateral actions meant to strengthen Israel’s grip on Jerusalem,” Hatem Abdel Qader, the head of Jerusalem matters for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Fatah movement, told Breitbart Jerusalem in an interview.
The Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki on Monday made ambiguous statements about Palestinian preconditions for reviving peace talks.
As the Senate Foreign Relations Committee prepares to pass a bill that would massively cut aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA) until it ends its $300 million in annual payments to convicted terrorists and their families, one of the legislation’s leading advocates has said that the PA must change its own laws regarding the payments as a condition for continued US assistance.
JERUSALEM – In the aftermath of Friday’s Temple Mount terror attack in which two Israeli policemen were killed by Arab-Israeli gunmen, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ ruling Fatah faction rebroadcast Abbas’ 2014 call to stop the Jews from “defiling” Muslim holy sites using “in any way whatsoever.”
Contents: Muslim leaders express outrage at metal detectors at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque / Temple Mount; Concerns grow of a new round of violence at compound
TEL AVIV – An Arab Muslim Israeli, who describes herself as a Zionist, slammed the UN’s cultural agency for its decision to list the Tomb of the Patriarchs in the Old City of Hebron as an “endangered World Heritage site” under the “State of Palestine.”
On Wednesday, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing to discuss the Taylor Force Act, which, if passed, would cut financial aid from the United States to the Palestinian Authority (PA) unless the PA stops its “pay for slay” payments which reward terrorists.
TEL AVIV — Former Palestinian Welfare Minister Shawqi al-Issa has revealed in a Facebook post the reasons for his resignation two years ago from the government of Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah, setting off a storm within the Palestinian Authority.
President Donald Trump has asked his ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, to join a growing task force on Middle East peace, breaking from protocol that has traditionally removed the US envoy from talks with the Palestinian Authority.
TEL AVIV – The murder of 22 children and their teachers in a terror attack in the 1970s was an “act of heroism,” a program broadcast on official Palestinian Authority TV declared last week.
The Palestinian Authority cut the salaries of 37 Hamas lawmakers as part of a series of measures to get the terror group to cede control of the Gaza Strip, Palestinian media reports said on Sunday.
TEL AVIV – U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley slammed Friday’s decision by UNESCO to list the Tomb of the Patriarchs in the Old City of Hebron as an “endangered World Heritage site” under the “State of Palestine,” saying it was an “affront to history” that was “tragic on several levels.”
TEL AVIV — The United Nations Educational, Scientific, Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on Friday declared the Tomb of the Patriarchs – considered the second holiest site in Judaism after the Temple Mount – to be a Palestinian world heritage site in danger.
The umbrella group that represents leading Jewish organizations in the US issued on Thursday a stinging rebuke to Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas for his defiant confirmation that the policy of so-called “martyr payments” — monthly donations to approximately 35,000 families of imprisoned Palestinian terrorists that are higher than the average wage in the PA — will not be halted.
TEL AVIV – The Palestinian Authority expressed surprise and disappointment at Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s for failing to include Ramallah as a stop during his three-day trip to Israel.
Thirty years after India became the first non-Muslim state to recognize the “State of Palestine,” Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signed off on a joint statement on Wednesday that mentioned the Palestinian-Israel diplomatic process, but made no reference to a two state solution.
TEL AVIV – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has vowed to never cease paying terrorists their monthly salaries – even if it costs him his job, according to an announcement on his party’s Facebook page Sunday.
The Palestinian Authority on Tuesday “sent into early retirement” 6,145 employees in the Gaza Strip, declaring the move part of a strategy to force the Hamas terror group to cede control of the Palestinian enclave.
TEL AVIV – Palestinians in the West Bank town of Jenin on Saturday re-erected a monument in honor of a Palestinian terrorist who masterminded the massacre of Israeli schoolchildren in the 1970s, a day after it was bulldozed by the Israeli military.
Palestinian Authority payments to terrorists and their families would seem to argue against Mahmoud Abbas being a serious partner for peace. One simply cannot seek peace and reward the most cold-hearted perpetrators of the most savage violence.
TEL AVIV — The number of Palestinians who have died since the Palestinian Authority (PA) refused to pay for their hospitalization in Israel has risen to 12, including three infants, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza.
Israel’s Deputy Foreign Minister Tipi Hotovely issued a warning Monday to countries participating in a United Nations effort to classify a Jewish holy site as “Palestinian” that they risked participating in “fake history” and aggravating the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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TEL AVIV – Relatives of American-Israeli victims of Palestinian terror attacks warned President Donald Trump’s advisors Jared Kushner and Jason Greenblatt on Friday that peace between Israel and the Palestinians was impossible until the Palestinian Authority ends both of its policies of paying salaries to terrorists and their families and inciting and educating violence against Israelis.
This week, the Palestinian leadership met with President Donald Trump’s envoys to the Middle East and refused, point blank, to stop paying terrorists and their families.
Speaking in the name of Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, PA spokesman Nabil Shaath said the Palestinians have a “social responsibility” to offer monetary payouts to the families of prisoners in Israeli jails because they are “political prisoners,” and that the payouts are the PA’s way of “look(ing) after innocent people affected by the incarceration or killing of their loved ones as a result of the military occupation.”
Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman accused Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday of increasing pressure on Hamas in the Gaza Strip to “drag it to war with Israel.” Lieberman, who spoke at the Herzliya Conference, warned that “the situation in Gaza can’t last forever.”
TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump is committed to reaching a serious peace deal, Palestinian media quoted Trump’s top advisor and son-in-law Jared Kushner saying following a late night meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas Wednesday.
JERUSALEM – Ahead of the arrival of senior Middle East advisers Jared Kushner and Jason Greenblatt in the region to advance a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians, the Palestinian Authority named yet another square after the terrorist mastermind behind the murder of 22 children.
TEL AVIV – Gaza-based terror group Hamas reportedly said on Sunday that it neither wants nor expects another round of conflict with Israel, despite recent tension over the energy crisis in the coastal enclave.
The United States, the Palestinian Authority, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Israel have recently been conducting secret negotiations to coordinate the first flight of Palestinian pilgrims from Ben Gurion airport to Saudi Arabia, with a short layover on the way, probably in Jordan.
