Former President Bill Clinton said that he went to great lengths to secure a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians while he was in office, but that the Palestinians rejected the offer. “I killed myself to give the Palestinians a state. I had a deal they turned down that...

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The movement to boycott Israel is “counterproductive to the pursuit of peace and harmful to Israelis and Palestinians alike,” Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton wrote in an open letter on Monday, one day before her church is set to vote on whether to divest from companies that allegedly profit from Israel’s control of...

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Israeli authorities are continuing their search for the perpetrators who stabbed and moderately injured two elderly women in southern Jerusalem on Tuesday morning. Police say the attackers fled towards the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber. Two individuals apprehended by police earlier in the day have been released after an investigation cleared them of suspicion. The...

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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas did not deny that his government gives payments to jailed terrorists when confronted on the issue by Norwegian Foreign Minister Borge Brende. The exchange was reported by the Norwegian newspaper Dagen last week. Brende reportedly demanded that Abbas stop using foreign aid to pay terrorists and their families. Abbas did not deny the...

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Infighting at the top of Fatah, the ruling party of the Palestinian Authority—including alleged assassination attempts—are eroding the credibility of PA President Mahmoud Abbas and preventing Palestinian aspirations from being realized, longtime Palestinian affairs correspondent Khaled Abu Toameh reported Tuesday for the Gatestone Institute. Palestinian sources reported that Mohammad Dahlan, Abbas’ former national...

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An Israeli man was sentenced on Tuesday to life in prison for the brutal murder of Palestinian teenager Muhammad Abu Khdeir in 2014. Yosef Haim Ben-David was convicted for Abu Khdeir’s murder last month. Ben-David and two teenage accomplices abducted Abu Khdeir, drove him to a forest, choked and beat him, and...

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The West’s refusal to challenge the growing corruption and autocratic rule of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas “could have a devastating effect on the long- prospects for a viable Palestinian state,” Grant Rumley, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, wrote Monday in Newsweek. As long as Abbas continues security cooperation...

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Despite pledging to donor nations that it would cease paying salaries to jailed terrorists, the Palestinian Authority has continued to so, the watchdog organization Palestinian Media Watch charged in a report last week. After repeated complaints by the United States and European countries that its donations to the Palestinian Authority were being...

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The Israeli government announced Thursday that it was pessimistic about the French multilateral initiative to relaunch Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts and called instead for direct negotiations. “Israel adheres to the position that the best way to end the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians is direct and bilateral negotiations,” the Prime...

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A Republican and a Democrat from the House Armed Services Committee introduced a resolution on Monday calling on the Obama administration to continue the twenty-plus-year American policy of vetoing any United Nations Security Council resolution that unilaterally tries to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict instead of encouraging bilateral negotiations. The resolution,...

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