Posts Tagged: palestinian authority
Abbas Sets Date for Palestinian Authority UN Status Upgrade Bid
Amid growing opposition from Israel and the U.S., Palestinian Authority (PA) leader Mahmoud Abbas said he agreed with Arab League foreign ministers, with whom he met...
Palestinian Authority Moves Ahead With Unilateral Bid for UN Status Upgrade
The Palestinian Authority's representative to the United Nations over the weekend submitted to all 193 member states a first draft of the PA's unilateral bid...
The End of Israel Will Have to Wait: On the Patient Anti-Zionism of the Guardian Left
One of the more misunderstood dynamics of Israeli politics is the Jewish electorate's move to the right. The increasing popularity of center-right parties in recent...
True Liberal Zionism and the Israeli-Palestinian Enthymeme
In rhetoric, an enthymeme is an argument that contains an unarticulated premise. Commonly this is because the conversation is among a group of people with...
PA Repeating Accusations of Israeli Attempts to Destroy Al-Aqsa Mosque
The Palestinian Authority (PA) over the last month has frequently accused Israel of trying to destroy Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque, the third-holiest site in Islam. Palestinian Media...
The Palestinians’ Dubious UN Move
PLO Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has again declared his intention to carry out his plan to gain U.N. recognition of a Palestinian state with the opening...
Time for the EU to Rethink its Palestinian Aid Policy
The European Union's funding policy towards the Palestinians could best be described by Albert Einstein's definition of insanity: "doing the same thing over and over...
U.S. Jewish Leaders Cancel Meeting with Palestinian Authority Leader Abbas
A scheduled meeting between the president of the Palestinian Authority and American-Jewish leaders in New York yesterday was canceled after the office of Israeli Prime...
Israeli Defense Minister Barak Calls for Unilateral West Bank Pullout
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak spoke out in favor of a unilateral withdrawal from portions of Judea and Samaria in an interview with Israel Hayom. Under Barak's...
Report: Mahmoud Abbas to Step Down, Tells PA to Find New President
Mahmoud Abbas, the leader of the Palestinian Authority, told his leaders of his party on Wednesday that once he returns from a trip to the...
Why Hasn’t There Been Another Palestinian Intifada?
This article was written by Alexander Joffe and Asaf Romirowsky. Is the Arab Spring an 'intifada'? And why haven't the Palestinians joined in? The intifada or 'throwing...
Palestinian Authority, Islamists Push Blood Libel Against Israel
One of the most enduring anti-Israel slanders is the charge that it is persecuting non-Jews and destroying Muslim and Christian holy sites. These...
Abbas Plans to Bring Statehood Recognition Bid to United Nations
At a meeting with Israeli Members of Knesset, Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas told MK Zehava Gal-On (Meretz) that he will proceed with...
PA Cartoon Demonizes Israel as a Bloodthirsty Jew
The official Palestinian Authority daily published a cartoon yesterday that depicts Israel as a demonized religious Jew holding a knife dripping with blood. Palestinian...
