A senior member of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party has said that a two-state solution with a Palestinian state in the West Bank with Jerusalem as its capital would just be a “phase” ultimately resulting in a single Palestinian state. “Palestine stretches from the river to the sea,” Tawfiq...
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A senior official from Fatah, the ruling party of the Palestinian Authority, declared in a TV interview Tuesday that “Hitler was not morally corrupt, he was daring.” Tawfiq Tirawi, a top member of the Fatah Central Committee and former head of Palestinian intelligence, said in remarks broadcast on the Palestinian TV...
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Isaac Herzog, the leader of the opposition in the Knesset and the head of the center-left Zionist Union, admitted in an interview Wednesday that an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement is unrealistic in the near term. “I don’t see a possibility at the moment of implementing the two-state solution,” he told Army Radio. “I want to...
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A senior member of Fatah, the ruling party of the Palestinian Authority, publicly accused the United States of creating ISIS to advance an “infernal plot to dismantle the Arab nation, split it, and kill its spirit of solidarity.” Abbas Zaki, who serves on Fatah’s Central Committee and has on several...
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The United States and Canada need to do more “to confront lethal homophobia and persecution in the Arab world and Iran,” Benjamin Weinthal, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, wrote in a commentary for Canada’s National Post on Thursday. Weinthal advocated a number of steps that North American...
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An Israeli man who boasted that he helped the Palestinian Authority catch and kill Arabs who sell land to Jews has been taken into custody by Israeli police “on suspicion of contacting an enemy agent and conspiracy to commit a crime,” The Times of Israel reported Tuesday. The Israeli investigative show...
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The Palestinian Authority joined Hamas and other terrorist groups in praising the Arab-Israeli man who murdered three people in Tel Aviv before dying in a shootout with Israeli police after a days-long manhunt. The PA’s Ministry of Health called terrorist Nashat Milhem “one of the most precious martyrs whose name has been inscribed with his...
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A senior Palestinian official said that some members of Fatah, the party of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, want to escalate the ongoing wave of terror against Israelis by orchestrating suicide bombings, The Jerusalem Post reported on Monday. The official, who remained anonymous, warned in an interview with Israel Radio...
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ recently announced plan to issue passports marked “State of Palestine” next year would violate the Oslo Accords and further undermine the cause of peace, Ambassador Alan Baker, who helped draft the accords, wrote Thursday in an analysis for the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. Calling...
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas shook hands during a photo session at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris on Monday, marking the first time the leaders met face to face since 2010, The Jerusalem Post reported. Netanyahu also spoke briefly with German Chancellor...
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