Veteran journalists took turns at Wednesday’s daily State Department press briefing aggressively questioning the wisdom and coherence of the Obama administration’s approach to a recently appointed Palestinian unity government – agreed to by the rival Hamas and Fatah factions – hours after rockets fired from the Hamas-dominated Gaza Strip struck...

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David Pollock of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy released on Friday an analysis of recent Palestinian public opinion polls, which held some surprising conclusions with important implications for the region. Pollock notes that despite the apparent contradiction, most Palestinians favor a unity government between Fatah and Hamas, while at the...

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Hamas is using the current period of political and military calm – most recently locked in by a unity pact between the terror group and its rival Fatah faction – to build a missile arsenal that can blanket population centers throughout Israel during any future conflagration, according to remarks made...

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Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon on Thursday told a group of foreign military attaches that the Palestinian Authority (PA) would have to disarm Hamas to signal that it is genuinely pursuing a viable and united Palestinian state, the latest in what has become daily criticism from diplomats, analysts, and journalists blasting...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has set up a ministerial committee to decide  how Jerusalem should deal with the new Palestinian government that was jointly appointed by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and the terrorist organization Hamas. The first meeting on preparing plans on how to deal with the diplomatic and...

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The Wall Street Journal late Wednesday criticized the Obama administration for agreeing to fund the recently announced Palestinian unity government – agreed to by the rival Fatah and Hamas factions, and unveiled earlier this week – with the outlet pointing out that the new cabinet’s refusal to dismantle Hamas’s military...

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Israel’s internal security agency, the Shin Bet, announced Sunday that it had broken up eleven plots to kidnap Israeli soldiers since September 2013. The Times of Israel reports: Of the foiled attempts, “the majority were driven by prisoners in order to use as a bargaining chip for their release.” Half...

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Lawmakers from both major parties and both chambers of Congress moved on Monday to condemn the formation of a new Palestinian unity government – agreed to in recent days by the rival Hamas and Fatah factions, and announced Monday morning by Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas – with Al...

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Yesterday the Palestinian Authority announced the formation of a unity government together with the terrorist organization Hamas. Though State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki announced that the U.S. would “work with” the new regime, Israeli officials as well as an array of U.S. lawmakers are deeply skeptical that doing so would be...

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Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) last week released U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Anne Patterson’s congressional testimony from April erroneously claiming that the Palestinian Authority’s funding of terrorists is because “they have to provide for the families.” On April 29, Patterson presented the administration’s Middle East and North Africa budget request for...

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