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Palestinian watchdog group says corruption continues

  Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas chairs a meeting of Palestine Liberation Organization’s (PLO) Executive Committee in the West Bank city of Ramallah on April 18, 2013. (AFP) The Associated Press, Ramallah, West Bank – A Palestinian watchdog group says it’s looking into corruption claims against government officials. Azmi Shuabi of the Coalition for Transparency in … Continue reading »

منظمة التحرير الفلسطينية يعيد كتابة التاريخ

بواسطة وارن بيتي زار الزعيم المحبوب باراك حسين أوباما اسرائيل الاسبوع الماضي. بينما هناك، أخذ رحلة سريعة الى رام الله (“الطول الله”) لاجراء محادثات مع السلطة الفلسطينية (PA) الرئيس الفلسطيني محمود عباس. خلال المؤتمر الصحفي عقب الاجتماع، قال أوباما: “الفلسطينيون يستحقون وضع حد للاحتلال والإهانات التي تأتي معها” [من خلال] “دولة مستقلة، متجاورة فلسطينية قابلة … Continue reading »

Hamas terror rally in Nablus draws tens of thousands

EoZ//Palestine Times has lots of photos from today’s Hamas anniversary celebration rally in Nablus, the first such rally there since the Fatah/Hamas split: That would be the women in the back. Fun for the whole family! The rally included signs and speeches giving praise to rockets that were aimed at Israeli civilians and the Al … Continue reading »

Rejection and terror: Same old Palestinian choices

That Abbas would rather shun repeated offers from Israel, and instead embrace Hamas, indicates that yet again, when presented with a path for peace, the Palestinians chose rejection and terror Last weekend, as Jews around the world began celebrating the festival of Chanukah (the triumph of light over darkness), in Gaza there was a different … Continue reading »

PA Cartoons for Children: Destroy Israel

PA cartoon teaches children Israel is Palestine Israel news photo courtesy of Palestinian Media Watch The Palestinian Authority provides parents with cartoons that teach children to destroy Israel, even though PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has said that evidence of incitement against Israel is outdated. The Palestine Media Watch (PMW) has published and translated a recent … Continue reading »

PA: Palestinian refugees will not be citizens of new state

By Annie Slemrod, The Daily Star//BEIRUT: Palestinian refugees will not become citizens of a new Palestinian state, according to Palestine’s ambassador to Lebanon. From behind a desk topped by a miniature model of Palestine’s hoped-for blue United Nations chair, Ambassador Abdullah Abdullah spoke to The Daily Star Wednesday about Palestine’s upcoming bid for U.N. statehood. … Continue reading »

NY Times fronts for Palestinian terrorists in PRISON

Leo Rennert//The New York Times has discovered a new breed of Palestinian heroes:  ”gaunt adults, wrists in chains, starving themselves inside Israeli prisons.” In a lengthy, 26-paragraph article spread across two pages in the front section of the May 4 edition, the Times describes hunger strikes by Palestinian prisoners and their outside supporters as a … Continue reading »

Abbas’s Police State

The Palestinian Authority is taking aggressive new measures to squelch dissent — and the White House is missing in action. BY JONATHAN SCHANZER | APRIL 30, 2012 President Barack Obama’s administration has loudly touted its efforts to protect peaceful activists across the globe from regimes that would oppress them. On April 26, the White House … Continue reading »

New Round of Palestinian Games

On April 17, Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority (PA), delivered to Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, a letter listing the PA’s demands in anticipation of peace negotiations, demands with which Israel must comply or Abbas will eschew further negotiations and instead “seek the full and complete implementation of international lawas it pertains to … Continue reading »

Hamas’s Zahar obtains Egyptian citizenship

(JP)Good. Maybe the rest of the fakesinians will get the hint and go back to where they belong as well.. Mahmoud Zahar, a top Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip, revealed Monday that he has obtained Egyptian citizenship thanks to an Egyptian law that allows Palestinians born to Egyptian mothers to become Egyptian nationals. Zahar … Continue reading »

Palestinain Statehood: Not

The Middle East changed dramatically with the recognition and admission of the State of Palestine to UNESCO on 31 October 2011 – resulting finally in the achievement of the two-state solution unsuccessfully sought for the last 19 years in negotiations conducted between Israel and the Palestinian Authority pursuant to the Oslo Accords and the Bush … Continue reading »

Bethlehem’s last Christians?

World, churches silent in face of Islamic persecution of Palestinian Christians Giulio Meotti//Veteran CBS News anchor Bob Simon just reported on the Palestinian Christians, indicting Israel’s “occupation” as responsible for their dramatic disappearance. The 60 Minutes story caused Israel tremendous PR damage. Yet largely ignored by Western media, a systematic campaign of Muslim persecution against … Continue reading »

ISRAEL: A myth-illogical apartheid

By Tabitha Korol/RenewAmerica/ The Jews created one of the most progressive democracies in the world, most accepting of minorities, yet they’re branded racist by Islamists, themselves severely discriminatory. Jews resettled peacefully in their homeland of 3,000+ years, but are called colonialists by those who seize land by force. Muslims are clearing their land of Christians … Continue reading »