Palestinian leaders over the weekend lashed out against the State Department, after Foggy Bottom harshly criticized a speech given by Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas in which Abbas charted a diplomatic path that would see the Palestinians abandoning negotiations with Israel in favor of international legal warfare against the...

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In an unsigned editorial today, the editors of The Washington Post note that since Hamas emerged as the “loser of the summer war,” its loss allows for “new possibilities for agreement between Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.” However, the editorial finds Abbas wanting: Mr. Abbas,...

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A poll conducted by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research was published yesterday, revealing a marked decline in support for Hamas, particularly in the West Bank. Ha’aretz reports: Some 39 percent of those surveyed said they would vote for Hamas if parliamentary elections were held today, compared to 46 percent one month...

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The State Department on Friday harshly condemned a speech given earlier that day by Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas, during which Abbas told the United Nations General Assembly that Israel’s summer Operation Protective Edge against Hamas constituted a “genocidal crime,” that the Israelis had committed a “series of absolute war...

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Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) today published the translation of an article from the official Palestinian Authority paper Al-Hayat Al-Jadida praising the treatment Palestinian workers receive from Israeli employers. The paper reported that “[w]henever Palestinian workers have the opportunity to work for Israeli employers, they are quick to quit their jobs with their Palestinian employers.”...

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News outlets conveyed reports – beginning Saturday and extending through Monday – of increased tensions between Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah faction and the Hamas terror organization, with Abbas slamming Hamas for, per Agence France Presse, ‘effectively running a parallel administration in Gaza’: “We will not accept the situation with Hamas...

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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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The Jerusalem Post reported today that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas criticized Hamas for refusing to accept a ceasefire until this week, as well as for carrying out summary executions last week. He confirmed that Hamas targeted Fatah members in Gaza and condemned their public executions. “Kill spies within the...

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Ynet reported yesterday on an Al Jazeera interview with Cairo-based Hamas leader Moussa Abu Marzouk, in which he defended the terror group’s widely criticized mass executions late last week. (The interview is embedded below.) During the interview, Abu Marzouk was asked whether “the information regarding the 18 informers (was) based...

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Writing in The New Republic yesteday, Alexander Joffe and Asaf Romirowsky, argue that it’s time to retire the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the United Nations (UN) agency solely devoted to the Palestinian cause. Joffe and Romirowsky argue that too often and especially during Operation Protective Edge, UNRWA was “effectively...

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