It’s been a long time since I saw a gesture this desperate. At the recent Arab Summit in Nouakchott, the capital of Mauritania, the Palestinian Authority (PA) foreign minister, Riyad al-Maliki, announced that his boss, PA President Mahmoud Abbas, had asked the Arab states prepare a legal case against Britain...

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Ninety-nine years after Lord Arthur Balfour pledged British support for a “national home for the Jewish people” in what is now Israel, Palestinian officials announced their intention on Sunday to sue the United Kingdom in an international court for issuing the document. Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki asserted during an Arab League meeting in...

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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is coordinating with Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, who is wanted for war crimes, in order to “restrain Israeli movements” in the African continent, the PA’s foreign minister said on Wednesday. The International Criminal Court has charged al-Bashir with war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide in Darfur, where he is accused of seeking to exterminate three non-Arab...

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The head of Israel’s Foreign Ministry asked Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday to remove a new monument to a Palestinian who killed 15 people and wounded 77 others in a 1975 terrorist attack in central Jerusalem. In a video message, Dore Gold blasted the PA’s decision to honor Ahmed Jabara, also known as Abu Sukkar,...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to denounce terrorism and work to secure peace between their two nations in a video message published Friday. Netanyahu, who has repeatedly extended invitations to meet with Abbas over the past several years—including at least twice in May...

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The Palestinian Authority’s official newspaper praised Palestinian youth who died after carrying out or attempting to carry out stabbing attacks against Israelis, writing in a lead article Tuesday that “dying as a martyr is the path of excellence and superiority.” Al-Hayat Al-Jadida listed 16 Palestinian high school students who it...

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Palestinian leaders have refused to participate in a peace summit in Cairo unless the Jewish state meets several of their preconditions, The Times of Israel reported Wednesday. The preconditions would have Israel accept a freeze on construction in the West Bank, set a timetable for negotiations, and agree to negotiations based on...

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The Palestinian Authority’s objections to the latest report issued by the Quartet—the foursome comprising the UN, EU, United States and Russia that tries to mediate peace talks—should serve as a wake-up call for the international community about the petulance of Palestinian diplomacy and the strong undercurrent of rejectionism that grounds it. The...

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The Palestinian Authority (PA) has decided to cut ties with the Middle East Quartet following the recent publication of the committee’s report on obstacles to Israeli-Palestinian peace, the London-based Arabic newspaper al-Hayat reported Tuesday. The move was ordered by PA President Mahmoud Abbas, who claims that the international group is backing Israel over the Palestinians, according to al-Hayat. The...

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The brutal killing last week of American-Israeli teenager Hallel Yaffa Ariel has yet again raised the issue of how the Palestinian Authority’s payments to terrorists encourage the murder of Israelis, Eli Lake wrote for Bloomberg View on Friday. Lake noted that although the recent joint report on Israeli-Palestinian peace talks by the...

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