TEL AVIV – A senior delegation from the Palestinian Authority will visit Washington with the hopes of meeting President-elect Donald Trump and to urge President Barack Obama to use his final weeks in office to take steps towards reviving the moribund peace process.
TEL AVIV – Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid called Saturday for Israel to make the Palestinians “disappear” by building a “high wall,” and added that he is the only viable alternative to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
TEL AVIV – Inboxes belonging to U.S. senators have been flooded with more than 22,000 emails over the past week urging them to back the Taylor Force Act, a bill that would make aid to the Palestinian Authority conditional on its cutting off financial rewards to terrorists and their families, a major Christian group said on Monday.
The Fifth Committee of the United Nations is set to decide next week whether to allocate funds to ensure that a motion by the body’s Human Rights Council to create a “blacklist” of companies operating in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights can be implemented.
British intelligence spied on Israeli diplomats and defense firms in addition to its military, the French daily Le Monde reported based on leaked documents.
No apology is needed from the UK for the 1917 Balfour Declaration that paved the way for the creation of the State of Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in Jerusalem.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday lashed out at the Palestinian Authority’s ruling party, Fatah, for electing a jailed terrorist to a senior role within the movement.
JERUSALEM – The Palestinian Authority official television network broadcast a song praising President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party for its call to “slice open” Israel’s chest on no less than eleven occasions in under a week.
The Palestinian Authority Foreign Ministry on Tuesday called on the US administration to officially recognize the state of Palestine and support a UN resolution against Israeli settlements in the West Bank, in response to Israel’s preliminary approval Monday night of a bill that would legalize outposts.
WASHINGTON – Whether Israel likes it or not, the United States Senate will aggressively promote legislation next month aimed at cutting funding to two key allies of the Jewish state – the Palestinian Authority and Egypt, Sen. Lindsey Graham told The Jerusalem Post.
Speaking to the Saban Forum in Washington, Secretary of State John Kerry demonstrated dangerous ignorance of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a biased perception of the core problems impeding peace between the two sides.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas tightened his hold on Fatah and shut out a key rival, according to unofficial results Sunday of leadership elections in the movement which has dominated West Bank politics for decades.
Contents: Mahmoud Abbas, 81, reelected leader of Fatah/Palestinian Authority; Hopes again grow for Gaza-West Bank unity government
TEL AVIV — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was re-elected to lead the Fatah party for the next five years at its first congress in seven years on Tuesday.
Christians United for Israel (CUFI), the largest pro-Israel organization in the United States, has launched a new effort to promote the Taylor Force Act, a bill that would make aid to the Palestinian Authority conditional on efforts to stop terror.
TEL AVIV – Palestinian leaders mourned the death of Cuban President Fidel Castro, hailing the revolutionary leader as a “comrade” to the Palestinian cause who supported the battle against “Zionist imperialism.”
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday evening for Palestinian assistance in battling wildfires that have raged throughout the country since Tuesday, forcing tens of thousands to evacuate their homes. The Palestinian Authority
JERUSALEM – A Palestinian Authority TV children’s program told its young viewers that Israel murdered late leader Yasser Arafat along with “many of our people.” “They killed Yasser Arafat, because until his final breath he defended the children of his
TEL AVIV – The Palestinian Authority and the French government have been pressuring the Obama administration to submit a plan to the United Nations that would impose guidelines for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, a PA official told Breitbart Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV – In an extensive interview with the New York Times published on Tuesday, President-elect Donald Trump said he believes a deal between Israel and the Palestinians is possible, and that his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, could be instrumental in
The US must cut off funding to the Palestinian Authority if it continues to pay monetary rewards to terrorists and their families, the chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs said on Sunday.
A Palestinian official says a gunbattle between Palestinian police and gunmen in the West Bank city of Nablus has killed a woman caught in the crosshairs
TEL AVIV – The Palestinian Authority’s official TV network has been airing a video several times a day accusing Israel of poisoning former leader Yasser Arafat and further claiming that Israel is targeting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas next.
TEL AVIV – The chief foreign envoy of the settler movement on Wednesday invited President-elect Donald Trump to visit Jewish communities in the West Bank during his tenure.
Dozens of Palestinian Authority public servants in Gaza have reportedly not yet received last month’s salary after being suspected by President Mahmoud Abbas of being loyal to his main challenger within the Fatah movement, Mohammed Dahlan.
JERUSALEM – Israel is plotting to assassinate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas just as it murdered PLO chief Yasser Arafat, members of the Palestinian Authority and Fatah have claimed.
The Palestinian government will protest against a delay in its application to join the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) at the body’s annual conference next week, an official said Friday.
Hamas “welcomed” an attack by a Palestinian police officer on Monday that injured three Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint near Ramallah, and called on Palestinian security personnel to carry out more attacks.
JERUSALEM – The Palestinian Authority has defended its decision to name a school after the mastermind of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre, calling Israel “deluded” for demanding that Palestinians not honor “martyrs.”
JERUSALEM – Palestinian college students are being encouraged to die by committing terrorist attacks rather than dying natural deaths, as per the inscription of a new monument erected in Al Quds University.
Top Palestinian newspaper Al Quds has come under fire for publishing an extensive interview on Monday with Israel’s new defense minister, the ultranationalist Avigdor Lieberman.
Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman said in an interview with a Palestinian newspaper Monday that Israel’s next war with Gaza militants would be their last “because we will completely destroy them”.
Four Palestinians arrested late last week for attending a sukkot holiday event in a West Bank settlement were freed on Sunday evening, Channel 2 News reported.
JERUSALEM –Palestinian Authority security forces have arrested and detained four Arabs for visiting Efrat mayor Oded Revivi in his succah on the Jewish festival of Succot as punishment for “normalization,” or fraternizing with the “enemy.”
JERUSALEM – The Palestinian National Security Forces, the Palestinian Authority body that coordinates with Israel on security matters, published two cartoons demonizing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli soldiers.
The remains of Abu Jihad, the former deputy to Yasser Arafat head of the armed wing of Fatah who was assassinated by Israel in 1988, will not be transferred to Palestinian Authority territory for burial.
JERUSALEM – Palestinian children’s drawings posted by President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement show images of “Israel” drinking the blood of Palestinians and eating their bodies with knives and forks.
JAFFA, Israel – With social media becoming a growing source of political dissent, Arab law enforcement agencies have started targeting high-profile users whose posts have gone viral.
JAFFA, Israel – The Palestinian Authority has deepened its contacts with the U.S. in order to test the possibility that President Barack Obama may propose a UN Security Council decision regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a senior Palestinian official told Breitbart Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV – The U.S. blasted the “reprehensible and cowardly” attack in Jerusalem in which an Arab terrorist shot and killed two Israelis and injured six others, and further slammed Palestinian factions for celebrating the shooting.
