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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 – 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.

A museum dedicated to Yasser Arafat, including the room where the Palestinian leader spent much of his final years, will open on Wednesday ahead of the anniversary of his death.

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.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon hailed Shimon Peres’s long efforts to forge a deal aimed at fostering peace in Israel and the Middle East, after the statesman’s death earlier on Wednesday.

Israel awakens Wednesday to the sad news that Shimon Peres, a pioneer and president, passed away at the age of 93 after a recent stroke.

BEVERLY HILLS — Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Joel B. Pollak left two Democratic panelists speechless in a debate on Thursday evening when he challenged them to name one thing Hillary Clinton had done for Israel.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has not made a significant move to signal whom he wants to succeed him as the head of the PA, the PLO or Fatah.

The Jerusalem Post reports: Shortly after Egypt’s President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi called on Palestinian factions to unite, already strained relations between Hamas and Fatah reached new heights.

The Times of Israel reports: The Arab Israeli town of Abu Ghosh, known for a history of friendly relations with Jews and Zionism, is to initiate construction on Wednesday of a cultural center in honor of a Palestinian figure revered among Arabs but deeply unpopular among many Jews.

TEL AVIV – Hillary Clinton said in a recent interview that Israel was not solely to blame for the failure of the peace process and that Palestinian inaction played a large part. In a radical departure from the attitude of

TEL AVIV – Palestinian Authority Security officers tore out the beard of a Muslim cleric over his criticism of the PA, according to Hizb ut-Tahrir (Party of Liberation), a radical Islamist group which seeks to re-establish the “Islamic Caliphate.” The group

TEL AVIV – After it received an intercepted communication detailing the terrorist group Black September’s plans to bomb New York City and assassinate then-Israeli prime minister Golda Meir, the National Security Agency had to debate how best to disseminate the

TEL AVIV – Correspondence contained in the latest batch of Hillary Clinton’s emails released by the State Department on Friday and reviewed by Breitbart Jerusalem may provide a window into the Obama administration’s thinking when it comes to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Contents: West Bank tensions rise after Palestinian policeman shot dead; Israel rejects France’s ultimatum to recognize state of Palestine

A Palestinian girl on official Palestinian Authority TV expressed her belief that “the Jews killed [late PLO leader Yasser] Arafat,” Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) reported. On the kids program Children Talk last week, the girl, who is approximately 11 or

JERUSALEM (AFP) –  Former Israeli president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Peres was making an “excellent” recovery on Friday after treatment for a heart problem, his surgeon said. “His condition is excellent, the widening of the artery was successful,” professor

TEL AVIV – A Palestinian university got into the Christmas spirit by decorating a tree with photos of terrorists, Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) reported. The Fatah student’s movement at Birzeit University near Ramallah erected a Christmas tree adorned with pictures

More details have come to light about a 1972 Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)-sanctioned operation in Munich that saw 11 Israeli Olympians tortured and then slaughtered by Muslim operatives. Germany, less than a few decades removed from the Holocaust, engaged in

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas wants the Oslo Accords to be annulled. We should give him what he wants.

Contents: Colorado’s largest Obamacare health insurer declares bankruptcy; Deadly Palestinian-Israeli violence continues for another day; Palestinian ‘Oslo Generation’ relationship with Israel extremely toxic and explosive

On September 3rd, French prosecutors closed their investigation into the 2004 death of Palestinian Authority (PA) leader Yasser Arafat.

As Israelis vote Tuesday, one critical factor may be the youth vote, newly-energized by a contested race (and by millions of dollars in foreign donations, including from U.S. taxpayers, to left-wing get-out-the-vote efforts). One critical factor in the expected strong performance by the Zionist Union opposition to incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party is that young Israelis voting for the first time will have had no real memory of the Oslo peace process–and its failure.