By TZVI BEN-GEDALYAHU, JEWISH PRESS— Mahmoud Abbas once again has grabbed an opportunity to miss an opportunity and has rejected a French-sponsored resolution in the United Nations that would give him a Palestinian Authority state based on the old 1949-1967 borders. So what is his problem? The problem is that the French proposal not only…
By MITCH GINSBURG, Times of Israel— Israel’s defense minister on Tuesday mirrored contentious remarks made by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the run-up to national elections in March, cautioning against the notion of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and stating that he did not foresee such a development in his lifetime. Moshe Ya’alon,…
By: TSVI SADAN, Israel Today— A scandal recently erupted after media reports such as that by BBC’s David Willey quoted Pope Francis as telling Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas during their meeting on May 16: “You are an angel of peace.” The Vatican was subsequently forced to issue a clarification that ultimately did little to alleviate…
By: Earl Cox, Breaking Israel News— Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, a.k.a Abu Mazen, has repeatedly announced publicly his demands if there is to be any peace with Israel. So here we are again, some dozen years on, and it seems the PA is again in the mood to agree to disagree. President Abbas has…
By: DOUG LAMBORN, JPOST— A new Israeli coalition and government is taking form. Warnings have surfaced regarding the right-leaning government and its ability to cooperate with the Obama administration. The chief worry on the mind of the White House is the hawkish character of this Israeli government that, in their mind, may hinder any efforts…
By JONATHAN S. TOBIN, COMMENTARY— For the past 20 years, whenever some Americans have raised the question of whether U.S. aid to the Palestinian Authority should be cut off, opponents have always trumped such calls by invoking a single point: the Israelis disagree. Even as the PA flouted its commitments under the Oslo Accords and…
By MICHAEL FREUND, JPOST— On December 31, the Palestinians provided yet another compelling example of why peace in the Middle East remains so stubbornly elusive. Even as much of the world was preparing to celebrate the onset of 2015, Palestinian chairman Mahmoud Abbas presided over a ceremony in Ramallah with a decidedly less laudable goal:…
By MICHAEL FREUND, JPOST— For the past decade, ever since Mahmoud Abbas took the reins of the Palestinian Authority in January 2005, the international community has gone out of its way to portray him as a moderate. Ignoring his long record of anti-Israel incitement and Holocaust denial, American presidents, European prime ministers and even various…
By CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— It’s hard not to admire Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s brazenness. Two weeks ago, Abbas signed on to 15 international agreements that among other things require the PA to respect human rights and punish war criminals. And this week, he signed a unity deal with two genocidal terror groups all of…
By LEA SPEYER, BREAKING ISRAEL NEWS— Palestinian officials have confirmed that rival leaders from the West Bank and Gaza Strip have agreed to form a national unity government within the “next five weeks.” Following talks in Gaza City on Tuesday evening between officials of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and Hamas, an agreement was reached…