The Palestinian Authority’s failure “to build itself as a state-like entity” is at the root of ongoing unrest in West Bank territories under its administration, Pinchas Inbari, a longtime Arab affairs correspondent for Israel Radio, wrote in an analysis published Wednesday by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. In recent weeks,...
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Both the Palestinian Authority and the terrorist organization Hamas are intimating journalists in order to stifle negative coverage ahead of local and municipal elections, veteran Palestinian affairs correspondent Khaled Abu Toameh reported on Tuesday. Both groups have placed journalists at the top of their “hit-lists” in an effort “to silence critics in the West...
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A Palestinian man named Sufian Abdu has been re-arrested for incitement on Thursday, just three days after being released from an Israeli prison after completing a 14-year sentence. Israeli public radio said he was taken back into custody for “waving Hamas flags” and “voicing calls to violence and incitement against Israel.”...
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas asked Arab members of the Israeli Knesset to help advance a reconciliation deal between his Fatah party and the Gaza-based terrorist group Hamas, Israel Radio reported on Sunday. Abbas made the suggestion at a meeting with leaders from Israel’s Arab sector, including parliamentarians, in Ramallah on Saturday. Fatah and Hamas...
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas once again turned down an offer to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for peace talks, the Palestinian newspaper Al Quds reported on Wednesday. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry reportedly made the offer to Abbas when the two met in Paris last month....
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A Palestinian swimmer has an Olympic-sized pool in her hometown, contrary to claims in news reports that she had no regulation-sized pools to train in, Tablet reported Saturday. Media reports about Palestinian Olympic hopeful Mary al-Atrash indicated that in addition to the usual challenges facing Olympic athletes, al-Atrash also had to...
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Fatah, the party headed by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, boasted on its Facebook page on Tuesday that it “has killed 11,000 Israelis.” The post also gives Fatah credit for having “sacrificed 170,000 martyrs” and noted that hundreds of its members are incarcerated in Israeli jails. “Israelis and Palestinians have long accused each other...
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Official Palestinian Authority television broadcasted a controversial video last week that showed a father trying to get his son shot by Israeli troops, but deleted the scene in which the boy didn’t listen to instructions and high-fived the Israeli soldier instead, Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) reported on Monday. In the...
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A Palestinian man who tried to bomb the Jerusalem light rail last month said he plotted the attack in “revenge for visits by tourists and Israeli Jews to the Temple Mount,” police revealed on Tuesday. Ali Abu Hassan, a Hebron University student whose attempted attack was foiled by an alert...
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The Palestinian Authority filed a complaint with FIFA after Israel prevented several players from the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip from traveling to the West Bank, The Times of Israel reported on Sunday. The move is the latest in the PA’s ongoing effort to insert its conflict with Israel into international fora. Israel’s internal...
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