Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will propose a timetable for talks with Israel during a meeting with Arab League foreign ministers slated for September 7. Palestinian supreme judge Mahmoud al-Habbash said Abbas wants to garner support from Arab countries for nine months of talks with Israel. The plan…includes three months of...
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An Israeli security official said Wednesday that “[n]one of the Palestinians summarily executed in Gaza on charges of collaboration during Operation Protective Edge were Israeli sources or assets.” The Times of Israel reports: “Not even one of the 27 was a source,” he said, adding that, during the duration of...
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Palestinian negotiators in the United States were slated to speak with Secretary of State John Kerry today about resuming negotiations with Israel and removing Israeli presence from the West Bank and east Jerusalem within three years. Veteran negotiator Saeb Erekat and intelligence chief Majid Faraj represented Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the parley....
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A poll released today by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PSR) reveals that an overwhelming majority of Palestinians believe that Hamas defeated Israel in Operation Protective Edge, resulting in a surge of popularity. PSR observes that, “as we saw in previous instances during and immediately after Israeli wars with...
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In an interview on Israel’s Channel One television news (embedded below) the former commander of British forces in Afghanistan said that Hamas was defeated during Operation Protective Edge. The key achievement was to defeat Hamas, and that’s effectively what has happened, although Hamas, as you would expect, have had their victory celebrations...
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Palestinian Authority Blasts Hamas for Provoking Israeli Retaliation, Calls on Group to Admit Defeat
Top figures from the U.S.-backed Palestinian Authority (PA) on Thursday lashed out against Hamas, criticizing the Palestinian terror organization for what now appears to have been a deliberate series of escalatory gambits in the Gaza Strip and West Bank, which ultimately triggered, respectively, Israel’s Operation Protective Edge and Operation Brother’s...
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