Never missing an opportunity to miss an opportunity, Palestinian leadership has decided to thwart U.S. President Donald Trump’s peace plan by inciting mass protests, media reports suggest. “Palestinian officials warned over the weekend that US President Donald Trump’s plan for Mideast peace, which is expected to be announced on Tuesday, would...
Many in the media and policy circles are fretting about the effect Benjamin Netanyahu’s reelection will have on the peace process. But few are examining the true impediment to peace: the Palestine Authority.
A recent Washington Post article took the approach that a Netanyahu victory “clouds prospects” for the success of the...
Germany condemned remarks on the Holocaust made by President of Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas. In a televised speech on Monday, Abbas claimed that the Holocaust was not caused by antisemitism, but by Jews’ “social role related to usury and banks.” The Palestinian Authority chief said he was referring to the writings of Karl Marx and...
Mahmoud Abbas is a “moderate” by Palestinian political standards.
He fools the world into thinking the dispute with the Jews is over a little land here, a little land there. In fact, Abbas is steeped in anti-Jewish paranoia and conspiracy theories.
Almost a week after India’s vote against the US recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, a senior Palestinian diplomat got into hot water for publicly fraternizing with one of India’s most wanted terrorist. Palestinian ‘Ambassador’ to Pakistan, Waleed Abu Ali, jointly addressed a rally with Hafiz Saeed,...
If history proves one thing, it’s that giving in to Palestinian threats only leads to intransigence and more threats. Unfortunately, for the second time the Trump administration has walked back an announced policy in just such a circumstance.
The first walk back had to do with moving the U.S. Embassy from Tel...
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas reached out to North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un on Korea Liberation Day to offer his congratulations. From Palestinian Media Watch:
PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas today sent congratulations to the ruler of North Korea, Kim Jong-un, in honor of the country’s Liberation Day. In the statement released...
President Donald Trump finished his trip to Israel by meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and a visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem and the Israel Museum.
During his first day, Trump “pledged to work toward Israeli-Palestinain peace,” but admitted it’s the “toughest deal of all.” However, he...
President Donald Trump appeared to rebuke Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at least three times in their joint statement on Wednesday.
First, at the beginning of his remarks, Trump recalled the Oslo Accords:
Almost 24 years ago, it was on these grounds that President Abbas stood with a courageous peacemaker, then-Israeli Prime Minister...
Yesterday I asked, Has Trump gone soft on Jerusalem Embassy move after threats of violence?
Those threats already are moving into the operational planning phase, with the Fatah Party, to which Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas belongs, mapping out its terror strategy.
PalMedia Watch reports, Fatah has already planned a terror campaign to prevent US...
We have covered the escalating threats from leaders of and functionaries in the Palestinian Authority that there will be violence if the Donald Trump fulfills his promise to move the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Israel’s capital, Jerusalem.
This is a two-faced move, Palestinian leadership’s two-faced Jerusalem Embassy game:
We reported...
We reported the other day on the escalating campaign by Palestinian leaders threatening and predicting violence if the U.S. moves our embassy to Jerusalem, Palestinian leadership: There will be violence if U.S. moves Embassy to Jerusalem.
While Hamas is behind some of the incitement, an important feature of incitement regarding the Embassy is...
This is the latest in our Palestinian Incitement series, in which we document how incitement to violence against Jews in Palestinian media, social media, schools and government forms a fundamental impediment to peace.
Here is the latest edition, in which the Fatah Party of Mahmoud Abbas, which controls the Palestinian Authority, encourages...
Benjamin Netanyahu spoke at the U.N. today.
As usual, it was an excellent speech.
The headline is that Netanyahu offered to have Palestinian President speak at the Israeli Knesset (parliament) and for Netanhahu to speak at the parliament in Ramallah.
President Abbas, I invite you to come...
The other day we reported on Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu’s video in which he pointed out that advocating the ethnic cleansing of Jews from Judea and Samaria (the “West Bank”) is hardly a path to peace, Ethnic Cleansing of Jews For Peace is Absurd:
Netanyahu was factually correct on...
