Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday extended Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas an invitation to meet, reiterating an offer he made on Thursday after Abbas said that he would be willing to get together. “I’ve cleared my schedule this week,” the prime minister told reporters. “Any day he can...
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235 members of Columbia’s faculty, or perhaps more by now, have signed a letter to the Columbia Board of Trustees urging them to reject calls to divest from companies doing business with Israel. The signers of this letter have defended a core value of the American university. Regardless of where...
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A new viral video accuses Israel of tunneling under the Temple Mount in Jerusalem in order to “Judaize” the complex and build the third Temple, The Jerusalem Post reported on Wednesday. The video may further inflame tensions between Israel and the Palestinians by repeating the oft-discredited charge that the al-Aqsa Mosque, which is located on the compound, is in danger....
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The latest round of reconciliation talks between Fatah, the ruling party in the Palestinian Authority, and the terrorist group Hamas ended without an accord, The Jerusalem Post reported on Tuesday. The only agreement that the two parties reached was to avoid discussing the negotiations with the media. Ziad al-Thatha, a senior Hamas...
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The Palestinian Authority has continued to award lifetime payments to convicted terrorists, despite a promise to end the practice, an investigative report published Sunday by The Mail on Sunday (MoS) revealed. The report was part of a broader investigation into what the paper described as the “wasteful” use of British taxpayer money. According...
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Orde Kittrie’s Lawfare is a primer on how nations and non-state actors can supplement their hard power by using the court system to achieve their strategic objectives. Lawfare is a term coined in 2001 by Maj. Gen. Charles Dunlap, then a colonel in the Air Force Judge Advocate General’s Corps, as a strategy of “using –...
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A Palestinian sheikh called Jews “the most despicable of Allah’s creatures” and urged their annihilation during an address at the al-Aqsa Mosque that was posted to the internet last week. Sheikh Ali Abu Ahmad began by slamming a Jordanian plan to install security cameras at al-Aqsa this week. Jordan’s Islamic Affairs...
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A spokesman for the Palestinian Authority’s security forces wrote a Facebook post after Tuesday’s attacks in Belgium blaming the United States and Europe for the rise of global terror. “Those who prepare the poison will taste it themselves, and today Europe is having a taste of what it prepared with its...
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A Palestinian legislator from Nablus is presenting an “unprecedented” challenge to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and the PA’s rampant corruption, according to a report by Jonathan Schanzer and Grant Rumley published Monday in The Daily Beast. Schanzer and Rumley are respectively the vice president for research and a research fellow...
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas hailed a Palestinian who attempted to kill an Israeli soldier with her car as a “martyr.” “We see in her a martyr who watered the pure earth of Palestine with her blood,” Abbas wrote in a letter to the parents of Amani Husni Sabatin, who...
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