Posts Tagged: Mahmoud Abbas
Is Trump Being Played by the Palestinians?
JNS.org - US President Donald Trump’s optimism about Middle East peace might be justified. Perhaps Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas’ pledge that he will be a...
Can Trump Survive Abbas?
JNS.org - Donald Trump was something of a motivational speaker when he welcomed Mahmoud Abbas, the gerontocrat at the helm of the Palestinian Authority (PA) for the last...
Trump and Abbas State Desire for Peace, But Differ on Specifics
JNS.org - US President Donald Trump and Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas met for the first time at the White House on Wednesday, as Trump’s...
As PA’s Abbas Meets Trump, Regional Dynamics Play Out in Israel’s Favor
JNS.org - As President Donald Trump and Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas met on Wednesday, experts said the US-Israel relationship and the Middle East’s regional dynamics were...
Birthday Suit
As Israel gears up to celebrate its 69th birthday, the Palestinian Authority (PA) is as busy as ever bemoaning the existence of the Jewish state....
The Palestinians Don’t Want a Mandela, They Want Another Arafat
JNS.org - Palestinian internal politics and liberal hostility to Israel came together at the New York Times this month. The newspaper provoked a firestorm of criticism...
When Palestinians Kill Palestinians
A frustrated Avigdor Lieberman, Israel's defense minister, criticized the United Nations in a recent phone call with its Middle East envoy, Nikolay Mladenov, for ignoring the ongoing issue...
Will the World Come Around to Israeli Public Opinion on Palestinian Statehood?
JNS.org - While the international community clings to visions of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Israeli public opinion is unified in asserting that the establishment...
How BDS Harms the Palestinians
When Israel enacted a new policy last month banning the entry of BDS advocates into the Jewish state, some of the strongest criticism came from a group that touts...
The Rebbe of the West Bank
Last week, my wife and I met at the White House with our friend Jason Greenblatt, President Donald Trump’s chief Middle East negotiator. Jason’s a busy...
Why Don’t Supporters of Palestinians Care About PA Abuses?
On college campuses and beyond, support for the Palestinians has been portrayed as a human rights campaign. While the antisemitic BDS movement is -- according to its...
Why Do We Allow the Palestinians to Pay Terrorists?
On March 8, 2016, Taylor Force, a 28-year-old West Point graduate and veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, was visiting Israel with members of his graduate...
Terrorist Appointed as Mahmoud Abbas’ Deputy, But the World Stays Silent
On February 15, Fatah appointed Mahmoud Al-Aloul as a deputy and possible successor to PA President Mahmoud Abbas. Unfortunately, just like Abbas, Mr. Al-Aloul is a terrorist who has...
Jewish Leaders Denounce Palestinian Authority’s ‘Fort of Torture’
JNS.org - With $221 million in US aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA) hanging in the balance, American Jewish leaders and organizations across the political spectrum...
