U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said that “Israel has every right in the world to defend itself and it has an obligation to defend itself,” while meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Tuesday. Thank you. Mr. Prime Minister, Bibi, thank you for welcoming me here. And for...

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One of the Palestinian Authority’s core obligations under the terms of the Oslo Accords is ending the popular anti-Israel incitement that permeates official Palestinian institutions and civil society. The PA’s failure to condemn calls to violence against Israelis, magnified by its own frequent contributions to the toxic rhetoric, has led...

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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has publicly confirmed for the first time that he turned down a peace offer in 2008 that would have provided for an independent Palestinian state containing all of the Gaza Strip, much of the West Bank (with land swaps), and a tunnel connecting the two areas. Abbas made his comments...

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An op-ed published in the official Palestinian Authority newspaper, Al-Hayat al-Jadida, accused Israel’s intelligence agency, the Mossad, of orchestrating Friday’s terror attacks in Paris and equated Israel with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), The Times of Israel reported on Sunday. “It is not a coincidence that human blood...

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Presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R – Tex.) chaired a subcommittee hearing this week that highlighted testimonies from victims of Iranian and Palestinian terrorism, including their struggle to receive just compensation from the perpetrators of the attacks, The Dallas Morning News reported on Wednesday. Orde F. Kitre, an Arizona State University...

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Incitement-fueled violence against Israelis continued Friday as three teenagers were shot in two separate attacks in Hebron. The first attack took place outside the Tomb of the Patriarchs, where a 16-year-old was seriously hurt by gunfire to the upper body and taken to a hospital in Jerusalem, Channel 2 reported. An 18-year-old was reported...

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A letter signed by 369 members of Congress calling on President Mahmoud Abbas to stop incitement to violence within the Palestinian Authority was released by the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Thursday. The letter was signed by committee Chairman Ed Royce (R – Calif.) and ranking member Rep. Eliot Engel...

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An Israeli Border Police officer was injured when he was deliberately struck by a Palestinian driver near Hebron, The Times of Israel reported on Wednesday. The man sustained a major head wound and is in critical condition. A Palestinian careened his car into an Israeli Border Police officer north of...

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Two bipartisan resolutions, one condemning incitement by the Palestinian Authority against Israel and the other raising concerns about anti-Semitism in Europe, passed unanimously in the United States House of Representatives this week. The resolution condemning Palestinian incitement was sponsored by Representatives Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R – Fla.) and Ted Deutch (D –...

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In a speech delivered last week, Mahmoud al-Habbash, an advisor to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Islamic affairs and a Supreme Sharia Judge, called Israel evil and referred to it as “Satan’s project,” Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) reported on Sunday. “The conflict here in Palestine between us and the criminal occupation and...

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