Palestinian Affairs

The Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas on Saturday offered to share its rocket arsenal with any Arab country that would be willing to attack Israel. Fathi Hammad, a spokesman for the Iran-backed Islamist group, said in an interview with the Hamas-run Al Aqsa TV that the group  has become “the leading manufacturer of...

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On one of my first assignments abroad as a rookie journalist back in the early 1990s, I found myself in the Serbian capital, Belgrade, just as the violent disintegration of Yugoslavia was getting underway in earnest. One afternoon, sitting with a group of journalists and writers in a café in...

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Two members of the terrorist group Hamas were killed after the tunnel they were in collapsed about 500 yards from the Israeli border, Palestinian officials said Wednesday. The Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry identified the two men as Ismail Shmali and Rami al-Areir, who were both in their 20s. A third man was reported...

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An official TV channel of the Palestinian Authority repeatedly broadcast a song calling for violence against Israel last week, the watchdog group Palestinian Media Watch reported Monday. The broadcast of the song “Long Live Fatah Men” occurred during Fatah’s party conference, from November 29 to December 4. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday harshly criticized the election of a convicted murderer and terrorist to a key committee of Fatah, the Palestinian Authority’s ruling party. Marwan Barghouti is serving five life sentences in an Israeli prison for his role orchestrating murders during the Second Intifada in the early 2000s. He...

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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has strengthened his grip on the influential Fatah faction following the party’s Congress, as his supporters dominated a vote for the party’s central committee. The results of the election to Fatah’s key body were announced Sunday by Arab media, on the final day of the Fatah...

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