President Barack Obama should break with American diplomatic practice and use the United Nations Security Council to recognize a Palestinian state, former president Jimmy Carter wrote Tuesday in The New York Times. Carter noted that United Nations Security Council Resolution 242, which was passed in the wake of the 1967 Six-Day War...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week hailed the 39th anniversary of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat’s historic trip to Israel, contrasting it with the intransigence displayed by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Abbas “refuses to come to direct negotiations without preconditions, is also continuing to incite his people regarding the idea...

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Clashes between gunmen and Palestinian Authority police in the West Bank have intensified in the run-up to the leadership meeting of the long-ruling Fatah party later this month, the Associated Press reported Monday. One of the Fatah-aligned gunmen, Hatem Abu Riziq, spoke to the AP about his decision to participate in fierce...

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The Palestinian Authority’s payments of salaries to convicted terrorists or their surviving family members constitutes a violation of the Oslo Accords, a former Israeli general wrote this week in a research paper for the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. Brig.-Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser, the former Director General of the Israel Ministry of Strategic...

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…Now What? Donald Trump’s surprise election as President of the United States has led to a new focus on the foreign policy challenges he will face, especially in the Middle East. Among those challenges: wars in Syria, Iraq, and Yemen; a Kurdish push for independence; a regional power struggle between Iran and...

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The Palestinian Authority’s official television network has been broadcasting a new video multiple times a day that claims that Israel poisoned former PA President Yasser Arafat and is now targeting current president Mahmoud Abbas, the watchdog organization Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) reported Friday. The PA often airs accusations that Israel poisoned Arafat on the...

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The Histadrut, by far the largest labor union in Israel, on Sunday urged a counterpart union in Germany to abandon its bid to boycott Israel, saying that such actions would harm both Israeli and Palestinian workers, Benjamin Weinthal of The Jerusalem Post reported Tuesday. After learning that the Oldenburg chapter of the Education...

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The global police agency Interpol has rejected the Palestinian Authority’s bid for membership, The Times of Israel reported Tuesday. The Palestinians had sought a vote on membership during Interpol’s annual meeting this week in Bali, but 62 nations voted in a preliminary hearing against placing the proposal on the agenda. “Many others abstained,...

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Israeli officials believe that the Palestinian Authority is seeking to use the United Nations’ cultural body to lay claim to the Dead Sea Scrolls, a collection of nearly 2,000-year-old biblical manuscripts considered to be among Israel’s greatest archaeological treasures, The Times of Israel reported Sunday. The ancient Hebrew scrolls, discovered in...

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Iran Extends Its Global Reach This week The Tower reported on numerous signs that Iran is strengthening its position across the Middle East and even the world. Monday’s election of Hezbollah ally Michel Aoun as president of Lebanon was hailed by several senior Iranian officials. “The election of Michel Aoun as president shows new...

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