Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said in a speech this week that the Palestinians would not allow Jews to desecrate the Al-Aqsa mosque and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem with their “filthy feet,” Palestinian Media Watch reported yesterday. Yesterday, Palestinian Authority Chairman Abbas described Jews on the Temple Mount...
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Palestinian officials have rejected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s offer to restart peace negotiations, The Times of Israel reported Thursday. Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat called Netanyahu “king of the settlers” and dismissed his remarks as a PR stunt, Israel Radio reported. Erekat charged that the prime minister actively worked...
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A federal appeals court ruled that victims of Iran-backed terror may sue Bank Melli, a commercial bank owned by the Iranian regime, for $17.6 million in damages, the San Francisco Chronicle reported yesterday. Although foreign nations normally can’t be sued in U.S. courts, their immunity does not cover harm caused...
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A federal judge in Manhattan, George B. Daniels, ordered the Palestinian Authority (PA) to post a $10 million bond and pay $1 million more per month as it appeals a verdict that found it liable for a series of terrorist attacks in Israel that killed 33 people and injured over...
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Leaked documents showing attempts by Palestinian Authority officials to misuse public funds have caused a furor in Palestinian society by “highlighting the corruption and mismanagement critics say remains rampant in the Palestinian government,” the Associated Press reported today. The furor over the documents comes as the Palestinian economy is stagnating and Palestinians grow increasingly...
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has sent a envoy to Tehran in hopes of boosting ties with Iran, The Times of Israel reported today. PA President Mahmoud Abbas sent Ahmad Majdalani, a member of the PLO Executive Committee, to Iran, where he met with Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. Majdalani...
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The official educational curriculum of the Palestinian Authority (PA) promotes terrorism and hatred of Jews and Israel, a report presented today at an international teachers’ conference stated. The report, prepared by the organization Palestinian Media Watch (PMW), documents that “the PA teaches its children to reject Israel’s right to exist,...
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President Barack Obama’s “paternalistic” view towards Israel negatively impacted the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, Ben Cohen, Senior Editor of The Tower, wrote Thursday in a review of former Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren’s new book Ally. In his book, Oren wrote that “the Israel [Obama] cared about was also the...
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Hamas, the Islamist terrorist organization that rules the Gaza Strip, has rejected a move by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to dissolve the unity government it agreed to last year, Agence France-Presse reported today. Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah presented Wednesday the resignation of the unity government to PA...
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In an essay published Wednesday in the Times of Israel, Times of Israel founding editor David Horovitz stated that President Barack Obama does not understand the concerns of the Israeli people, despite Obama’s claims to the contrary. Horovitz stated that he endorses “every word” Obama has said about resolving the conflict with the...
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