Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has reaffirmed his intention to brush off repeated objections from the United States and from the U.S.-backed Palestinian Authority, and to travel to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip later this month: Official Turkish sources told the al-Sharq al-Awsat newspaper that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan...

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U.S. Members of Congress are calling upon Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas to take action against PA broadcasts that incite violence and hatred against Israelis and Jews: April 11, 2013 President Mahmoud Abbas Ramallah, West Bank via PLO Delegation to the United States 1732 Wisconsin Ave NW Washington, DC 20007 Dear...

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Officials from the U.S.-backed Palestinian Authority (PA) are blasting Turkey’s announcement that a date has been set for a visit to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, which PA officials have lobbied the U.S. to stop: The PA believes that Erdogan’s visit to the Gaza...

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Palestinian Authority (PA) President Muhammad Abbas’s aturday evening decision to accept the resignation of Prime Minister Salam Fayyad came as a result of political jockeying and amid intense international diplomacy. Fayyad met this evening with Abbas in a session that lasted just twenty minutes, after which news leaked of the resignation. On Thursday Reuters reported...

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Arabic media sources are reporting that President Mahmoud Abbas has accepted the resignation of Palestinian Prime Minister Salaam Fayyad, after the two met briefly late in the day Saturday. The resignation comes in the aftermath of a public spat between the two officials over the departure of Finance Minister Dr....

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Long-strained tensions between Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas may have finally frayed beyond repair. Reuters has multiple sources reporting that Fayyad has submitted his resignation: Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad offered his resignation to President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday following a rift between the two men...

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The Israeli military last week published video of Palestinian children as young as elementary school-age being used to hurl rocks at Israeli soldiers. The dramatic footage sparked a debate that deepened this weekend with the publication of legal analysis identifying the tactic as a war crime: As stone-throwing Palestinian children have been...

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One needn’t romanticize this week’s West Bank unrest. It wasn’t exactly a spontaneous outburst of rage – rather, the three funerals held recently were a pre-planned set piece for the stone-throwing that followed. Near Tulkarem, and in Hebron, two teenagers were laid to rest, having been hit by IDF fire while throwing...

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Israeli soldiers yesterday shot and killed two Palestinians who were hurling firebombs at them, amid the outbreak of riots across the West Bank. Palestinians burned tires and threw rocks at IDF soldiers in outrage over the death of then-imprisoned Hamas terrorist Maysara Abuhamdia, who was serving a life sentence for his...

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A document leaked to an Israeli newspaper outlines a series of temporary moves being made by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in anticipation of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s upcoming trip to the Middle East: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is to suspend all unilateral measures vis-à-vis the United Nations agencies to...

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