Palestinian Affairs

In a hearing of the United Nations Human Rights Council, the son of a terror victim called the world body and a number of its members states accessories in the murder of his father for their failure to condemn the Palestinian Authority’s “pay to slay” scheme, which rewards terrorists and...

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Israel’s internal security agency, the Shin Bet, announced that one of nine people it had arrested from a ring that smuggled guns from Hamas in Gaza to the West Bank was an employee of the French consulate in Jerusalem, The Times of Israel reported Monday. Romain Franck, a French citizen...

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The recent escalation along Israel’s border with Gaza, including an Israeli attack on the Hamas-ruled enclave over the weekend that destroyed two terror tunnels, is fueled in part by Hamas’s attempt to prepare for its planned “great march of the return,” a leading analyst of Palestinian politics explained to a press...

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Two news events this week underscored that the biggest impediment to Israeli-Palestinian peace is the inability or the refusal of the Palestinian Authority to govern effectively. In the first case, a convoy carrying PA Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah through Gaza was struck by an explosion damaging three cars and reportedly injuring...

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Israeli tanks fired on a number of Hamas targets inside the Gaza Strip, following a series of explosions caused by improvised explosive devices (IED) at Israel’s border with the Hamas-controlled enclave, The Times of  Israel reported Thursday. “IDF troops retaliated by firing from a tank at positions belonging to the...

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On the first day of a pilot program pairing Israeli and Palestinian farmers interested in joint agricultural ventures, each population sat warily on opposite sides of the room. Though all had agreed to be part of the trailblazing training program held at the Galilee International Management Institute (GIMI) on Kibbutz Mizra, significant...

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