After reports earlier this week that the Palestinian Authority (PA) stepped up its support for the sickening “pay-to-slay” policy by which it pays monthly salaries to terrorist prisoners and their families, it now emerged that the PA also doubled the monthly salary it pays to convicted terrorist Hussam Kawasme. Kawasme...
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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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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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Qatar has said it will send $480m to the Palestinian Authority (PA) and the Gaza Strip after an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire agreement ended the deadliest rocket fire on Israel since the 2014 Gaza war. In a statement on Tuesday morning, Qatar’s Foreign Ministry announced that the country would allocate $300 million...
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A bipartisan bill to monitor incitement in Palestinian textbooks has been introduced by Reps. Brad Sherman (D-CA) and Lee Zeldin (R-NY) and has been forwarded to the influential House Foreign Affairs Committee, of which both lawmakers are members. Co-sponsors of the legislation include Reps. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), David Trone (D-MD),...
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The newly appointed Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority, Mohammad Shtayyeh, said Tuesday that the United States’ long-anticipated peace plan for Israel and the Palestinians will be “born dead.” “There are no partners in Palestine for Trump. There are no Arab partners for Trump and there are no European partners...
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The Palestinian Authority has decided to penalize Palestinian civilians in need of medical assistance to avoid cutting salaries of Palestinian terrorists and their families under the so-called “pay-to-slay” scheme, which led the United States and Israel to cut aid until the PA stops inciting terror. Explaining the decision, PA Ministry...
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