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• Drama in West Bank city of Jenin shows cracks in Palestinian nation-building project

  
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  JENIN, West Bank — A high drama unfolding recently in the jacaranda-draped hills of this city features some of its most prominent characters: a crime-fighting governor who perished as he hunted his attackers and a famed ex-militant swept up in an ensuing crackdown. But uncomfortably for Palestinian officials, the ...
  3 days ago

• Israels Supreme Court tells military: reconsider ban on Gaza residents studying in West Bank

  
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  Israels Supreme Court has ordered the military to reconsider its ban on Gaza residents studying in the West Bank. The court posted its decision Thursday, implying it would order a change. The Israeli military has 45 days to respond. Sari Bashi, head of the Israeli human rights group Gisha ...
  4 days ago

• Peace Was Not at Hand

  
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  The belief that an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement is inches away or perhaps only one long negotiating session away never dies. Not even 64 years after the birth of the state of Israel and 45 years after Israel’s conquest of Sinai, Gaza, the West Bank, and Jerusalem in 1967.  This delusion is fed by leaders ...
  4 days ago

• Why would our president send our tax dollars to the swine at the Palestinian Authority?

  
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  They hate us, they hate our closest allies, yet, President Obama saw fit to fund the PA, and he overruled Congress to do it, do not forget that. Via Weasel Zippers has an example of what our tax dollars might be used to fund. Sick bastards! H/T Zions Trumpet
  4 days ago

• Iranian Officials Call for Israel to be Destroyed

  
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  An Iranian official has made a public plea for Palestinian authority to band together to “demolish the Zionist regime.” The statement came from a conference in Tehran as Israel celebrates Nakba Day . This is the day Israel celebrates its declaration of Independence. Palestinians regard Nakba as a day of ...
  1 week ago

• Palestinian rivals set new timetable for power-sharing deal, aim at elections in 6 months

  
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  Palestinian rivals Hamas and Fatah agreed on Sunday on a new timetable for a power-sharing deal that envisions elections in about six months, officials from both sides said. Reconciliation efforts have stalled repeatedly, and it is unclear if the latest agreement, brokered by Egypt and signed in Cairo, ...
  1 week ago

• Israel and the Final Option

  
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  Despite the problem that the media continues to report almost exclusively the Palestinian side of the Palestinian-Israeli standoff, any reasoning person would have to grant that the preconditions demanded by Mahmoud Abbas are so extreme that they can only be viewed as a means to avoid reentering negotiations with ...
  1 week ago

• A Sunny Place for Shady People*

  
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  I mentioned yesterday that the “Palestinian” “Authority” was more corrupt now than ever, and that I’d find the citation for you. Do I really have to bother? Muhammad Rashid, the former economic adviser to Yasser Arafat who is wanted by the Palestinian Authority for embezzling hundreds of millions of ...
  1 week ago

• Israeli envoy to meet Palestinian president in highest-level exchange since talks collapsed

  
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  A Palestinian official says an Israeli envoy will meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to submit a letter regarding the possibility of substantive talks. The modest exchange is the highest-level communication between the two sides since exploratory contact collapsed four months ago. ...
  2 weeks ago

• When a Peace Partner is not a Peace Partner

  
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  That is when there are the conditions placed that Abbas does toward Benjamin Netanyahu. “Addressing the Tunisian parliament on Monday, and sounding a bit like a character out of the children’s series Pokemon, Abbas stated, “I choose you, Netanyahu.” [The speech was delivered in Arabic, so it only sounded ...
  3 weeks ago

• Blind Mahmoud Abbas: A Case Study in Powerlessness

  
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  My latest piece at Souciant examines the complete disconnect of Mahmoud Abbas from the reality of the situation the Palestinians are in. I ask why Israel should even be expected, by purely self-interest standards, to end its control over millions of Palestinians and examine how that calculus might be changed. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Palestinian TV station sued as journalists fear media crackdown

  
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  http://www.guardian.co.uk Palestinian TV station sued as journalists fear media crackdown Websites have been closed and Wattan TV is facing court after it investigated alleged corruption linked to the Palestinian AuthorityAn independent Palestinian television station is facing a potentially crippling ...
  3 weeks ago

• Palestinian TV station sued as journalists fear media crackdown

  
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  Websites have been closed and Wattan TV is facing court after it investigated alleged corruption linked to the Palestinian Authority An independent Palestinian television station is facing a potentially crippling court case next week amid growing evidence of a clampdown by the Palestinian Authority on freedom of ...
  3 weeks ago

• British Muslim Zionist

  
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  By Abie, mgisoaps.com Very interesting article in the Canadian Jewish news earlier this year.  Just wanted to share on here I have no further comments I like the article AS IS http://www.cjnews.com/index.php?q=node%2F89338   WINNIPEG — Kasim Hafeez has seen the truth and, in an address to a largely Jewish audience ...
  4 weeks ago

• Obama Sends Palestinians $192 Million

  
  Freedom's Wings Politics — Authority: 494
  The question is more than obvious:  Where did Obama get the money to do this?  With our GDP dipping to 2.2% and nearly a $16 trillion deficit it is hard to see where this money could have come from, but I guess when you have an inept Congress that has not put forward, voted upon and [...]
  4 weeks ago

• Palestinians looking for new patron?

  
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  This is rich. Elliott Abrams writes that the Palestinians are so convinced that Obama has failed them that they are looking for a patron other than the United States. Here’s the thread: No three men were closer to the United States during the years of negotiations under Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush ...
  4 weeks ago

• Israel: Another Former Top Security Aide Criticizes Netanyahu

  
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  The former head of Shin Bet minced no words. “I have no faith in the current leadership of the State of Israel, which is supposed to lead us in the event of a major event, such as a war with Iran or a regional war,” Yuval Diskin told a group of retired security officials on [...]
  4 weeks ago

• Triple Play! Obama Blows Off Congress, Funds Palestinians, Lies About PA Stance on Israel

  
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  Friday night news dump: President Obama has decided to provide $192 million to the Palestinian Authority despite Congress’s freeze on PA funding after its president, Mahmoud Abbas, attempted to declare statehood unilaterally last September, in violation of the PA’s treaty commitments. Obama’s “waiver” of the ...
  4 weeks ago

• ANGRY WHITE DUDE LIBTARD OF THE WEEK – JOHN BOEHNER

  
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  WASTE OF UV RAYS! Once again, Barack Hussein Obama has stuck his “big stick” up the over-tanned, orange culo of worthless (non)Speaker of the House, John “Boo Hoo” Boehner. It occurd on a weekly basis. Boo Hoo Boehner must like it. Obama has circumvented Congress so many times, Americans are beginning to ...
  4 weeks ago

• Obama Lifts Freeze on $192 Million Aid Package to Palestinian Authority: "Important to the Security Interests of the United States"

  
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  By Robert Spencer Jihad Watch It is? In what way? "Obama lifts freeze on $192 million aid package to Palestinian Authority," from the Times of Israel, April 27:US President Barack Obama has lifted a ban on financial aid to the Palestinian Authority. Obama stated that the aid was “important to the security ...
  4 weeks ago

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