Posts Tagged: PA President Mahmoud Abbas
Egypt Reportedly Offers Abbas a Palestinian State in the Sinai
JNS.org - Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi reportedly offered Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas a Palestinian state in Sinai. Egypt had been working on the...
Abbas Threatens to Dissolve Palestinian Unity Government
JNS.org - Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas threatened to dissolve the unity government between his Fatah faction and Hamas. "Hamas must recognize that the West Bank...
Abbas to Demand Israeli Withdrawal From West Bank in 3 Years
JNS.org - Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas is set to unveil a plan for a return to negotiations with Israel over a nine-month...
Palestinians Demand ‘Clear’ Timetable for Israeli Withdrawal From West Bank
JNS.org - The Palestinian Authority's (PA) commissioner for international relations, Nabil Shaath, told Palestinian media on Thursday that the PA would turn to the...
How Huffington Post Could Test Out its Advice to Israel
Since its debut in 2005, The Huffington Post has positioned editorials exclusively on the left margin of its pages (screencap). For two consecutive days, however,...
Senior PA Official Announces Decision to Back Terrorists ‘Slaughtering’ Jews
Arutz Sheva - A senior Palestinian Authority (PA) official last Wednesday declared that his organization has made a "political decision" to support Arab terrorists "slaughtering"...
Of Rocks and a Hard Place
The sound of the boom was so startling that we yelped in unison. Luckily, our taxi driver swerved only slightly. Had he lost control...
Shimon Peres Says Gaza Must be Given Back to Abbas, War Has ‘Exhausted Itself’
Ynet - After visiting wounded IDF soldiers on Wednesday morning, former president Shimon Peres called on the cabinet to end the Gaza operation. The war...
Abbas Likens Murder of Palestinian Teen to the Holocaust
JNS.org - Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas described Israel's Operation Protective Edge in Gaza as "genocide" during an address on Wednesday, and refrained from...
Human Rights Group Launches Campaign Calling for End to U.S. Funding for Fatah-Hamas Unity Government
Human rights group, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, on Wednesday launched a petition campaign calling on President Obama to halt U.S. aid to the newly formed Fatah-Hamas...
Palestinian Negotiator Calls Netanyahu ‘Filthy War Criminal,’ Slams Abbas
JNS.org - In a newly surfaced audio recording, Saeb Erekat—the top Palestinian negotiator in the collapsed Israeli-Palestinian peace talks—calls Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a "filthy war...
Israel Calls for Return of Palestinian Authority Forces in Gaza
JNS.org - The Israeli government is seeking for a return of Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces under the command of PA President Mahmoud...
Israel Security Cabinet Vows to Oppose Hamas; Netanyahu: ‘Today, Abu Mazen Said Yes to Terrorism and No to Peace’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday railed against the new Fatah-Hamas unity pact, as his government's Security Cabinet unanimously voted to continue to uphold international...
Netanyahu Considers Annexation of West Bank Areas if Peace Process Fails
JNS.org - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would be open to entertaining ideas of unilateral annexation of certain areas of the West Bank if...
