The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), ostensibly the internationally “legitimate” representative of the Palestinian people, eulogized slain Hamas leader and October 7 mastermind Yahya Sinwar as a “martyr” and “great national leader.”
Despite the recent October 7 massacre of Israeli civilians and the overwhelming Palestinian support for it, the largely failed two-state solution for solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — vehemently rejected by both sides — is still being pushed by U.S. President Joe Biden, who insists that it is the “only way” to ensure long-term security for both Israelis and Palestinians in a new post-Hamas Gaza.
DHS announced it put an asylum official on leave after it was reported that she formerly worked for the terror-backed PLO.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday slammed “American silence” and demanded the Biden administration “turn its talk into actions,” in a phone call with Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
In a report documenting major reactions to the recent passing of South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Reuters international news agency gave a prominent position to a senior Hamas figure as well as an official of the terrorist-designated Palestine Liberation Front (PLF) alongside world leaders and prominent figures including President Joe Biden, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Pope Francis, and the Dalai Lama.
The Biden administration’s plans to reopen the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem have been shelved until after Israel’s upcoming elections, Axios reported Wednesday.
President Joe Biden’s tenure will likely bring a return to “the failed policies of the Obama administration” abroad, conservative foreign policy experts predicted during a webinar on Wednesday hosted by the Center of Security Policy (CSP) think tank.
Senior Palestinian official Saeb Erekat was in critical condition Monday and put on a ventilator at a Jerusalem hospital after being diagnosed with coronavirus.
Democrat Ammar Campa-Najjar, who is running for Congress in California’s 50th district, created a music video about the Palestinian cause in 2012 that included the slogan “Free Palestine.”
TEL AVIV – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday said the PA was “absolved” of all agreements with Israel and the United States, including security arrangements, over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s vow to annex Jewish West Bank settlements.
Joe Biden would give Palestinians hundreds of millions of American taxpayer dollars per year without any commitment to stop rewarding terrorism or to renew negotiations.
On July 9, an Israeli court ruled that the Palestinian Authority was responsible for several attacks by Palestinian terrorist organizations against Israel — a landmark decision that could, and should, have international implications.
TEL AVIV – Senior Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat reiterated the position that no Palestinian has been given authorization to attend next month’s US-led peace conference in Bahrain, amid reports that Arab countries are pressuring the Palestinians to walk back their rejection of it.
To succeed, President Donald Trump’s peace plan must provide Israeli sovereignty over “Area C” in Judea and Samaria (the “West Bank”).
JERUSALEM – In a move that angered Palestinians, the U.S. officially closed its consulate in Jerusalem on Monday, merging consular activities with the main embassy which was relocated to the capital in May.
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.
The first lesson of the Iranian revolution must be that you cannot understand the Middle East – or anything for that matter – if you judge events and people through the filter of irrational prejudice.
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.
Karin Kneissl , Austria’s foreign minister, is taking heat from the country’s Jewish community for hosting notorious Palestinian extremist Hanan Ashrawi and dubbing Ashrawi the “Palestinians’ voice of reason.”
Perhaps the apparent breakdown of the Trump administration’s efforts to coddle the Saudis into playing a significant role in negotiations between Israel and the PLO is a blessing in disguise.
Duncan Hunter unveiled a new idea, which he shared in a letter to President Donald Trump: use military engineers to build the “foundational road upon which the wall will be built.”
The San Diego Union-Tribune published a front-page story on Thursday examining Ammar Campa-Najjar’s family history, noting that the Democrat’s grandfather was not merely a member of a terrorist organization, but a leader.
Democrat candidate Ammar Campa-Najjar is the grandson of Palestinian terrorist Muhammad Youssef al-Najjar, who was involved in the massacre of eleven Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, Germany. He was also the deputy to Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) terrorist leader Yasser Arafat.
Republican congressman Duncan Hunter held on to a narrow three-point lead over Democrat challenger Ammar Campa-Najjar in a new poll of the heavily Republican California 50th congressional district.
Former Republican congressman Duncan L. Hunter, the father of Rep. Duncan D. Hunter (R-CA), told reporters at the U.S.S. Midway in San Diego on Tuesday that his son’s opponent, Democrat Ammar Campa-Najjar, would be a “security risk” to the country if elected to Congress.
The facts about Ammar Campa-Najjar are not “racist,” though much of the left-leaning media would prefer to ignore them.
Democrat Ammar Campa-Najjar has deleted an Instagram post in which he referred to his grandfather, Palestinian terrorist Muhammad Yousef al-Najjar, as a “legend.”
Democrat Ammar Campa-Najjar referred to his Palestinian terrorist grandfather, Muhammad Yousef al-Najjar, as a “legend” in an Instagram post in 2015 — though he now claims to condemn his grandfather’s actions.
TEL AVIV – Amid sharp objections from the Palestinian leadership, the European Union on Sunday supported United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nikolay Mladenov’s efforts to reach a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas.
Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) demanded Thursday that his Democratic opponent, Ammar Campa-Najjar, return a $250.00 donation he received last year from Palestinian ambassador Feda Abdelhady Nasser, Deputy Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine [sic] to the United Nations.
TEL AVIV – The Trump administration has revoked the visas of the Palestinian envoy and his family, days after shuttering the PLO mission in Washington.
The US has decided to freeze all bank accounts belonging to the (Palestine Liberation Organization) PLO in the country as the White House ramps up pressure on the Palestinians to enter into peace talks with Israel, according to a report in Al Jazeera on Sunday evening.
TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump’s recent moves vis-à-vis the Palestinians are encouraging terror and violence that will explode in the U.S. and Israel’s face, Palestinian Authority officials reportedly said, adding that Trump is an enemy of the Palestinians and of peace.
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday hailed President Donald Trump for his “correct” decision to shutter the Palestine Liberation Organization office in Washington DC citing a Palestinian refusal to advance peace.
TEL AVIV – The Palestinian envoy to Washington said that he and his staff had been ordered to pack up his office within the month following President Donald Trump’s decision to shutter the local Palestine Liberation Organization mission.
The Trump administration ordered the closure of Palestine Liberation Organization offices in Washington on Monday, broadening its pressure campaign on Ramallah to return to peace talks with Israel.
TEL AVIV – Israel will not support a tripartite confederation with the Palestinians and Jordan, senior Israeli diplomatic officials said Sunday.
President Donald Trump’s decision last week to defund the UN Refugee Works Agency for Palestine (UNRWA) may not seems as significant as recognizing that Jerusalem is Israel’s capital and transferring the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. But it is.
TEL AVIV – A Palestinian Liberation Organization official slammed President Donald Trump’s alleged plan to formally renounce the Palestinian “right of return” for millions of refugees and their descendants to Israel on Sunday, describing it as “worthless nonsense.”
TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump ordered that more than $200 million in aid to the Palestinian Authority be cut, a State Department official said on Friday.
