With demands that Israel leave Gaza’s Philadelphi Corridor and limit its operations in the West Bank, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called on the Jewish State “to comply with its relevant obligations,” adding that “only an end to the occupation… will bring an end to the violence.”...
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Biden is delaying Saudi normalization with Israel until the region is fixed, mistakenly making peace the end game
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said in a September 21 speech to the United Nations that the world body should recognize Palestine as the 194th member state. Abbas...
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This week, the Trump administration threatened to clos...
The White House is sending a strong signal that it will no longer tolerate Palestinian intransigence at the United Nations or the international body’s long record of anti-Israel action, acc...
A coalition of Palestinian parties released a statement last week calling for the first session in over two decades...
For most of his 12 years as president of the Palestinian Authority (PA), Mahmoud Abbas has enjoyed the Wh...
Palestinian leaders in the West Bank refer to the wave of terror currently gripping Israel as a haba sha'abiya, or a "popular outburst." The imagery suggests that the terror wave is widespre...
The biggest political standoff in years just ended in the West Bank and barely anyone in Washington noticed. A parliamentarian from Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abba...
Palestinian lawmaker Najat Abu Bakr took refuge in the building of the defunct Palestinian Authority parliament on Friday after PA security services...
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ refusal to name a su...
Last week, I paid a couple of visits to the West Bank or, as Israel’s enemies call it, “the illegally occupied Palestinian territories.” Israelis who live and work there are mor...
Big news stories are a dime a dozen these days. Between the Iran nuclear talks in Lausanne, Switzerland, and the war in Yemen, it’s an ideal environment for making...
Abbas’ failed leadership has created discontent within Palestine Authority. Will Dahlan seize the moment?
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