Palestinian Affairs

Palestinian leaders are facing outrage from their own constituents after leaked documents revealed that members of the Palestinian Authority (PA) cabinet gave themselves a secret retroactive pay raise in 2017, resulting in a 67 percent salary hike. The Associated Press reported Tuesday that the lavish payouts came at a time...

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In the first public comments on the U.S.-sponsored economic workshop to be held next month in Bahrain, Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas said Monday that Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts “will go to hell.” Speaking at a ceremony in Ramallah, Abbas declared that, “The Palestinian Authority does not recognize this conference.”...

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The United States called Wednesday for dismantling UNRWA, the UN agency that oversees Palestinian refugees, saying the organization had failed in its core mission. In an address to the UN Security Council, U.S. envoy Jason Greenblatt described UNRWA as a “bandaid” and declared it was time to hand over services...

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The United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia have confirmed their participation in a U.S.-sponsored peace conference in Bahrain in June, during which the United States is set to announce the economic aspects of its long-awaited peace plan. The UAE’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs “welcomed” the announcement of the summit in...

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In a furious response to the passing of a landmark anti-BDS resolution in the German Parliament, the Palestinian Authority released a sickening statement in which it accused Israel of invoking the Holocaust to “blackmail” European countries to reject the boycott of the Jewish State. In a vote on Friday, an...

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A senior figure in the Palestinian Authority said Monday that any Palestinian who supports the long-anticipated U.S. peace plan for the Middle East “would be nothing but a collaborator” for the United States and Israel. Ahmad Majdalani, the Palestinian minister for social affairs and a member of the PLO’s Executive...

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