Posts Tagged: abbas
After Israeli Elections, Abbas Is Between a Rock and a Hard Place
JNS.org - The top ranks of the Palestinian Authority (PA) were greatly disappointed by the results of the general elections on April 9. The hope...
Toppling Hamas or Handing Gaza to Abbas Will Not Solve the Problem
When a single rocket launched from the Gaza Strip into central Israel forces the Israeli prime minister to cancel an important slate of meetings in...
Abbas and Netanyahu UN Speeches Signal the 30-Year Peace Process Is Dead
JNS.org - There was one corner of New York City last Thursday where the Senate Judicial Committee hearings into the accusations against Supreme Court nominee Brett...
Will Abbas Close Banks in Gaza to Punish Hamas?
I don't know how reliable this report is, but Al Akhbar in Lebanon is reporting that Mahmoud Abbas is drawing up plans to severely punish all Gazans...
Palestinian Leaders Threaten Jerusalem’s Arabs on Eve of Municipal Elections
JNS.org - Ten weeks before the local elections in Jerusalem on October 30, eastern Jerusalem residents are being increasingly pressured to stay away from the voting...
Palestinian Sovereignty After Mahmoud Abbas
Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas’ recent illnesses have again raised the issue of his successor. This festering problem highlights contradictory aspects of Palestinian political...
The Palestinians Are Constantly Calling Everything a ‘Declaration of War’
From Ynet: The Palestinian Authority strongly condemned the Knesset on Tuesday for passing into law a bill proposal to deduct terrorists' salaries from roughly $130 million in...
Palestinians Assault Women Journalists … and the World Yawns
JNS.org - Nothing exposes the incredible hypocrisy of Israel’s critics more than their response to the treatment of Palestinian Arab women. All the human rights organizations and...
The Palestinian Refugee Scam
Another Nakba Day, the annual commemoration of the catastrophic displacement of Palestinians from their homes in the 1948 war launched by Arab states to annihilate...
The Battle Over Abbas’ Successor Will Entail Conflict and Instability
At present, the issue of any leadership change in the Palestinian Authority (PA) is hypothetical. Mahmoud Abbas shows no sign of either abdicating or designating a...
The Post-Abbas Era
The Fatah movement and the PLO leadership are experiencing a deep internal and external crisis. In retrospect, its leader Mahmoud Abbas has failed to achieve...
Time to Abandon the ‘Original Sin’ Theory
JNS.org - As welcome as the remarkably diverse condemnations of Mahmoud Abbas’ latest antisemitic speech have been over the last few days -- with UNESCO’s new director-general, The New York...
PLO Tells Its People to Resist Until Israel Is Destroyed by ‘Return’
The Western media has been downplaying the meaning of "return" in the weekly Gaza "Great Return March" riots. But to Palestinian Arabs, the meaning has always been...
The Palestinians Have Reached a Dead End
JNS.org - The number of Gaza residents willing to participate in Hamas' riots along the border fence is dropping, as seen at last Friday’s protest. Hamas is...
