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By JTA
Romania supports in principle Israel’s demand for Palestinian recognition of Israel as the Jewish state but encourages compromises on this and other issues, Romanian President Traian Basescu said. Speaking to JTA at his presidential palace two days before an Israel visit that began Sunday, Basescu said that “if they [the Palestinians] want peace, they must […]
No confirmation of the alleged assault was reported by any news outlet other than Ma'an.
Kerry is whistling Dixie to think that everything that helps the Palestinian Authority helps Israel.
A Border Police officer shot and seriously wounded a suspected Palestinian Authority terrorist Monday afternoon near the Jewish community of Telem, located on the highway leading from Kiryat Arba-Hebron to Kiryat Gat and Beit Shemesh. The policeman spotted the suspect running towards the security control tower. The suspect ran away after warnings shots were fired […]
Canada’s constant support of Israel since Harper became Prime Minister is a rare example of intellectual honesty.
Terrorists from Hamas-ruled Gaza attacked southern Israel again Sunday morning with two more rockets that exploded in open areas and caused no damage or injuries. Military officials said last week that Israel will not allow a return to the days of “tit-for-tat” retaliation, with Hamas and other terrorists launching a couple of rockets a day […]
The Obama administration thinks better of Palestinian Authority terrorists than it does of those in Hezbollah.
The Palestinian Authority hurriedly denied an Israeli report Thursday night that its security forced arrested Hamas terrorists in Hebron who were planning to take explosive devices with them to Israeli population centers. "We have no information about this issue," Palestinian Authority Adnan al-Dumieri told the Bethlehem-based Ma'an News Agency. The original Israeli report by the […]
Hamas has castigated Twitter for closing its account, an action that it said “exposes the ‘unprofessional’ policy of the latest, and the total ‘bias’ to the Israeli occupation and real terrorism in the world,” according to the terrorist organization’s website. Of course, Hamas says Israel is a terrorist organization, while Hamas, in its own words, […]
By JTA
A bill introduced by the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee would link assistance to the Palestinian Authority to its efforts to stop incitement. Under the bill presented Wednesday by California Republican Rep. Ed Royce, the president would have to determine that the Palestinian Authority “no longer engages in a pattern of incitement against […]
Hamas probably is not responsible for the recent escalation of missile attacks on Israel and may even be trying to prevent them. However, it still will be the target of retaliation, a senior Israeli military officer told Reuters Thursday. The officer, who was quoted on the basis of anonymity, said rival terrorist groups, smaller than […]
How do you eliminate a terror target? With pinpoint accuracy.
Jordan might be the X factor in Kerry’s foolsmanship in the Middle East.
Palestinian Authority police allegedly took photographers into custody and deleted their footage of recent protests in Ramallah against UNRWA policies, according to the Bethlehem-based Ma'an News Agency. The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms said that the actions violate "freedom of opinion and expression," and demanded authorities "enable journalists to exercise their professional duty […]
Arabs who attack Jews cannot return to terror if they never left their favorite pastime.
The Palestinian Authority has not explained to the Czech Republic why 12 firearms, including submachine guns, were stored at its embassy in Prague where a PA diplomat was killed in an explosion to weeks ago. Palestinian diplomats have apologized for hiding illegal weapons at the Prague embassy where a blast killed the ambassador on New […]
By JTA
Israel’s Supreme Court has given Justice Minister Tzipi Livni one week to respond to a lawsuit by an Israeli NGO representing victims of Palestinian terror victims in a case against the Bank of China. On Tuesday, the court put its time mandate on Livni hours after the Shurat HaDin-Israel Law Center filed a suit requesting […]
The lack of love between the Palestinian Authority and Israel is played out best in live street theatre.
When an Israeli leader says what he really thinks of Kerry, it‘s no wonder the US is insulted, even if true.
Israeli soldiers stopped a speeding car north of Ramallah Tuesday, and it turned out to be a vehicle driving Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Razi Hamdallah, who immediately turned the incident into a nasty political fight. He reportedly called one soldier a “dog” and scorned him for standing in “occupied territory.” His car and convoy had […]
Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon said in private that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry acts out of “misplaced obsession and messianic fervor [and] cannot teach me anything about the conflict with the Palestinians." Ya’alon, whose remarks were quoted by the Yediot Acharonot newspaper, also commented, The only thing that can 'save us' is for John […]
Michael Oren thinks if the U.S. can't force Israel to give up land for nothing, Israel should do it on its own.
Visiting Germany Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier accused Israel of “disrupting” talks with the Palestinian Authority for a peace agreement by announcing the construction of more homes for Jews in Judea and Samaria. He alleged that the building violates understandings that Kerry set forth last July, when direct talks resumed for the first time in three […]
One of the greatest dangers to peace is taking all of the conditons for war calling them a basis for peace.
The Israeli Air Force targeted two terror sites in central and southern Gaza early Monday evening in retaliation for two rocket attacks near Sderot in the northern Negev shortly after the former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was buried nearby at his Shikmim Farm home. The IDF confirmed “direct hits” on the targets, which were identified […]
Abbas promised he would reiterate this stance during a meeting with Kerry.
'All the elders of Israel came to the king [David] to Hebron, and King David made a convenient with them in Hebron… In Hebron, he was king over Judea for seven years and six months…. (Samuel 2, Ch. 5).'
The Israelis were meeting with Arabs in a hotel in Ramallah.
The least violent and most threatening intifada is in the Negev and Galilee, where Jews are a minority outside of Haifa and Be’er Sheva.
On Thursday morning, the IDF attacked a terrorist team riding a motorcycle that had shot mortar shells at an Israeli patrol in the southern Gaza Strip. Palestinian sources reported three casualties--the two terrorists and a child who was injured from an exploding window. Back in 2005, many warned that the plan to unilaterally move the […]
A woman from Karnei Shomron, located in central Samaria, suffered injuries in her Monmouth and face Wednesday morning from glass that was shattered in another rock-throwing attack by a Palestinian Authority Arab. The woman was driving her car at the entrance to the community when the rock was thrown at the village of Lakif, located […]
Kerry may be an idiot, but he is not stupid and he is not letting Abbas and Netanyahu block him from proving he is not a friend of anyone except Barack Obama.
It is clear that land was the spark that set off the clash.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The PA hit squad carried a loaded weapon, in violation of Oslo.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Kerry promises Israel the US will make sure Israelis are safe with a Palestinian Authority state, but who will protect the Arabs from themselves? Two frightened Palestinians escaping a Palestinian Authority hit squad sought and found refuge in the Israeli community of Beit Aryeh in Samaria Monday night, They said a group of Palestinian security […]
Palestinian Authority Arabs attacks Israeli soldiers and civilians Monday night with two Molotov cocktail attacks on an IDF post neat Bethlehem and Rachel’s Tomb (Kever Rachel), injuring one person. Attacking Jews has been increasing popular among Arabs in Judea the past several weeks and follows a bit of incitement by U.S. Secretary of State John […]
The Palestinian Authority propaganda machine is one of Abbas biggest weapons, and Israel has no antidote that would act as a parallel to an Iron Dome anti-propaganda missile.
The status of Jerusalem is one of the biggest points of dissension in U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s “framework” that he failed to publicize before returning to Washington on Monday, according to an official in the Palestinian Authority. “Negotiators for the PA disagreed with several of Kerry’s suggestions in the negotiations with Israel, especially […]
The shaggy dog story of attempted unity between the rival Hamas terrorist organization and its rival Fatah, headed by Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas, took another turn towards an agreement Monday with Hamas’s offer offering to free Fatah prisoners and allow the return of Fatah legislators to their homes. Fatah staged a coup in 2007 […]
The Palestinian Authority is only a puppet opponent of Israel.
What was a "weapons arsenal" doing in an embassy?
The Islamic Jihad terrorist moment has infiltrated into the heart of Israel and was involved in last month’s Bat Yam bus bombing near Tel Aviv.
Israeli soldiers shot and seriously wounded a Gaza Arab Thursday evening when he and others approached the security fence and refuse several requests to step back. The Bethlehem-based Ma'an News Agency reported that “the man was shot near a cemetery,” which is a new version of propaganda that usually describes people at the fence as […]
Czech police found weapons at the Palestinian Authority mission in Prague where the PA ambassador was killed Wednesday after a safe he was handling exploded. Police confirmed that “some weapons” were found but did not reveal any details on their type or number. So far, the explosion has been written off as an accident that […]
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry landed at Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport around 3 p.m. Thursday, bringing with him the usual traffic headache for motorists who are kept away from the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem highway while his cavalcade takes him for a meeting with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. Kerry is scheduled to meet with Palestinian Authority […]
The Palestinian Authority opened up the propaganda taps Wednesday with charges that Israel and the “occupation forces” are “torturing” Arab children. The allegations were reported several hours before U.S. Secretary of State John Kelley landed in Israel. He previously has incited Arab violence by warning Israel that if it does not do as he says, […]
Foreign media are reporting without question another Palestinian Authority story of a death of an elderly man – instead of the usual pregnant woman, toddler or mentally disturbed person – at the hands of the IDF, which was operating in the area of Kalkilya, located between western Samaria communities and the metropolitan Tel Aviv city […]
As secretary of state Kerry arrives in Israel to twist the arms of the parties into a "peace" agreement, the Palestinian Arabs make clear their goals and methodology
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will be more polite in announcing new housing for Jews in Judea and Samaria this time around and will wait until U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is out of town before stating the plans, Army Radio reported Wednesday. Almost every time an American official visits Israel and wins concessions for […]
The United States will increase its aid to the Palestinian Authority by $14 million in 2014, bringing the American contributions to Mahmoud Abbas’ regime to $440 million, according to Maen Rashid Areikat, the PA’s chief representative in Washington. He added that the funds will be funneled through United States Agency for International Development (USAID) except […]
The blast happened when the diplomat was opening a safe.
Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas welcomed the "steadfastness” of so-called “Palestinian refugees” in Syria in a televised speech but forget to mention his concern for them did not extend to helping those who are dying of starvation. “Marking the 49th anniversary of the Palestinian Revolution … Abbas [said], “We negotiate to reach a fair solution […]
The United Nations says living in Judea and Samaria and most of Jerusalem are “illegal. ”Obama says they are “illegitimate. ”Now Palestinian Authority man calls them a “cancer.”
The Palestinian Authority cabinet decided Tuesday to try to beat Israel at its own game and to pump money into developing the Jordan Valley, which has become the centerpiece of the latest obstacle to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s nine-month talks aimed at a final agreement between Jerusalem and Ramallah. The cabinet met in […]
A military court has convicted the second of two Arabs who killed Asher Palmer and his two-year-sold son by throwing a huge rock at their vehicle near Kiryat Arba in 2011. Last July, the court sentenced Waal al-Arjeh to a double life sentence plus 58 years in jail for the murder, the first time military […]
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu led the move to free murderers of Jews to continue “peace talks” and then criticized the Palestinian Authority for celebrating the return of terrorists early Tuesday morning. He also said after freeing the murderers, by itself a threat to further terror, that there will not be peace unless Israel defends itself […]
The minority opinion implied that the Cabinet acted hastily.
Protesters are marching in the rain in Jerusalem Monday evening and will arrive at the Jerusalem home of one of 16 terrorists to be freed by Israel. The demonstration is being called the “Umbrella Protest” because of the rain that began falling in Jerusalem Monday afternoon. Authorities had refused to grant a permit for the […]
Terrorists in Hamas-controlled Gaza attacked Israel with another rocket Sunday evening, causing no injuries or damage but sending residents in the Sderot area to bomb shelters. The Color Red early warning system did not activate, but residents with mobile phones received the warning in a text message. After every rocket attack, the military eagerly states, […]
This is not the first time PMW's documentation has been impeded by YouTube.
By JTA
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas urged the Obama Administration to block a new Israeli plan to build hundreds of additional homes in Jewish settlements. Israel officials have said the planned construction of new units in Judea, Samaria and East Jerusalem will be announced next week, just as Israel is set to release 26 long-serving Palestinian prisoners […]
The Israeli Air Force attacked two terror targets in Gaza Thursday night, a short time after terrorists in attacked the coastal area south of Ashkelon for the second time in 24 hours. Gaza sources said that the Air Force retaliation caused no injuries. The IDF stated, "A weapon manufacturing facility was targeted in the Central […]
Israel won’t make a decision to bomb Hamas to smithereens until Tel Aviv is on the receiving end of missiles, and that day is getting closer.
Israel’s Supreme Court rejected Thursday evening an appeal by victims of terror to stop the government from going ahead with its plan to free another 26 terrorists on Sunday. The petitioners, whose parents and three of their brothers and sisters were murdered in a terrorist attack in Jerusalem in 2001, argued that the swap of […]
Mahmoud Abbas vehemently denied on Thursday a report by the Yediot Acharonot newspaper that his representatives have met with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s negotiator in secret back-channel talks for the past three years. The denial is not surprising, and the report by Yediot’s crack journalist Nahum Barnea also is not so spectacular. He wrote,” Attorney […]
A Palestinian Authority terrorist planning attacks on Israelis was arrested after seeking a permit to travel through Israel to Ramallah for medical care so that he could be in better health to murder Jews. The audacity and warped thinking of a terrorist, who plans to murder Israelis and then asks the country to help him […]
Incitement by official Palestinian Authority media is the reason for the recent surge in terrorist attacks, the office of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Wednesday. “Terrorist attacks on Israelis in the last few days are a direct result of the incitement & hatred propagated in Palestinian schools & media,” his spokesman Mark Regev tweeted. “We […]
Jesus was born a Jew more than 1,500 years before Islam appeared in the world, Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said Tuesday in a mockery of Mahmoud Abbas’' annual assertion that “Jesus was a Palestinian .” Abbas wished Christians in the Palestinian Authority, which until only a few years ago harassed and attacked Christians […]
Pope Francis’ first Christmas message was full of hope for peace in war-torn Syria and South Sudan, the “often and overlooked” war-torn Central African Republic and - as if the chaos and mutual barbarity are comparable – for a “favorable” outcome” in talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. He made no mention of what […]
The real hero who helped prevent mass casualties in Sunday's metropolitan Tel Aviv (Bat Yam) bus bombing was a child who told the bus driver that’s someone had left a bag on the bus, one of the passengers told President Shimon Peres Monday. The Jewish Press reported here that the bus driver, Michael Yoger, insisted […]
The U.S. State Dept. was quick to respond to Sunday’s bus bomb terror attack in metropolitan Tel Aviv and assure Israel it has nothing to worry about because it has the back of the United States. “We strongly condemn the bombing of a bus near Tel Aviv today,” spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters. She added, […]
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Israeli police exposed a drug lab in the Palestinian Authority city of Tulkarm, located on the western edge of Samaria and less than 15 miles from Netanya. A police spokesperson explained that Tulkarm was chosen as a site for the drug lab because it is not easily accessible to the Israeli Police A large force […]
Senior Palestinian Authority Saeb Erekat negotiator Saeb Erekat has dashed and ideas that the “nine-month peace talks” will be extended and told the PA’s official radio station Monday, "We turn down any extension.” Erekat said his previous remarks have been misinterpreted and clarified, "I said that if we reach an agreement on all final status […]
Sunday’s terrorist attack on a metropolitan Tel Aviv bus was only one of at least 150 “significant” attempts at terror by Palestinian Authority Arabs this year, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told the Likud Knesset caucus Monday. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and President Barack Obama have repeatedly claimed that Mahmoud Abbas, chairman of the […]
The Palestinian Authority has used a video and the revision of history to turn Christmas into a tool to rewrite history, with Jesus having been born in a “Palestinian” city and modern-day Christians suddenly being an “integral part of the Palestinian people.” Christians, like Jews, were denied access to holy sites during the Jordan occupation […]
NBC reportedly has bowed to Palestinian Authority pressure and has cancelled plans to short part of its new “DIG” television series near the Old City in areas of Jerusalem claimed by the PA. "There was no plan made to film the series in the City of David National Park or in the village of Silwan, furthermore, […]
Jerusalem area. He was doing 140 kilometers per hour (87 MPH) near Ma'aleh Adumim, a suburb of the capital, Ynet reported. A traffic police speed trap clocked Qureia's black Mercedes with Palestinian plates flying on the road to Abu Dis, where he resides. Qureia refused police orders to pull off the road, engaging instead in […]
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas accused Israel on Wednesday of escalating violence and trying to block the “peace process” by killing terrorists. The IDF on Wednesday shot and killed two Palestinian Authority Arabs, one of them who was on the payroll of the PA security forces, after they shot at soldiers trying to arrest an […]
Israeli soldiers killed a terrorist who also was a member of the Palestinian Authority “security force” and opened fire on them during an arrest attempt in Kalkilya, located in western Samaria and adjacent to the northern metropolitan Tel Aviv city of Kfar Saba. The Bethlehem-based Ma'an News Agency, which has close ties with the Palestinian […]
The Hamas terrorist organization has told Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas it is ready to agree to national unity government in preparation for local and parliamentary elections. The Jewish Press reported here on Monday that Hamas supreme leader Khaled Mashaal recently spoke with Abbas by phone and suggested the time has come to implement the […]
The 50 richest Arabs in the world have a combined wealth of slightly more than $266 billion, and 23 of them are from Saudi Arabia, according to Arabian Business figures quoted by the Saudi Gazette. The oil-rich kingdom’s richest man, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, has a personal wealth of $12.6 billion. His bank account surged […]
Khaled Mashaal, the supreme leader of Hamas who lives in Qatar, spent 10 minutes on the phone with Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas in what the official PA news agency WAFA said was a “warm” conversation. Mashaal fled to Qatar from Syria, where he had been living in exile from Jordan until the Syrian civil […]
European Union foreign ministers meeting Brussels on Monday approved a plan to buy peace between Israel and the Palestinian Authority with "unprecedented" amounts of political, financial and security support. If both sides reach a peace pact, the EU promised to offer both of them a "special privileged partnership” that would give them increased access to […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
A statement by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas rejecting a boycott of Israel has infuriated Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) leaders. “No, we do not support the boycott of Israel,” Abbas told South African reporters last week, The Star reported. “But we ask everyone to boycott the products of the settlements. Because the settlements are […]
Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas has rehashed his willingness to meet with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu according to Lebanese news source, one month after he took up the Prime Minister’s challenge to speak in the Knesset – but without a condition that he declare that Israel is a Jewish state. Al-Mayadeen, a Lebanese channel close […]
Four water pumps will be transferred to the Gaza Strip due to heavy flooding.
Palestinian Authority influential businessman Sam Bahour wrote New York City’s outgoing Mayor Michael Bloomberg, “Thank you, but no thank you” after Hizzoner said he would donate award money of $1 million to "promote commerce between the people in Palestine and the people in Israel.” Bahour wrote, “’Commerce between the people in Palestine and the people […]
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has been meeting with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu Friday morning and into the afternoon following his talks with Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas Thursday night. The snowstorm that has literally placed Jerusalem under siege forced Kerry to alter his plan to talk twice with the Prime Minister, once before […]
The snow in Jerusalem Thursday no only did not stop Arabs from attacking Jewish motorists with rocks but also helped them to do sin by disguising the rocks as snowballs. Pelting drivers with snowballs is a dangerous hobby all over the world because if they are like ice, the projectiles can easily break a window […]
The snowstorm’s delay of Kerry’s meeting with Netanyahu finally gives Abbas a chance to explain why Israel must not exist as a Jewish state.
l-Quds University, like Mahmoud Abbas, glorifies the mass murderer known as Abu Jihad, as well as other terrorists. But in a report, Brandeis faculty tell their administration not to pay any attention to that terrorism behind the curtain.
European Union money for the Palestinian Authority includes of millions of dollars for salaries civil servants who don’t show up for work, according to the European Court of Auditors (ECA)., the Luxembourg-based body which describes itself as the ‘’Guardians of EU finances.” The amount of EU funding to the Palestinian Authority between 2008 and 2012 […]
Mike Huckabee doesn’t understand why Jews support Obama as “pro-Israel” because he doesn’t understand the psyche of a liberal American Jewish Democrat.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has pushed off a planned trip to the Far East and will return to Israel and the Palestinian Authority for more discussions, the State Dept. announced Monday. He left last week after what all reports said was a failed mission to bridge gaps between PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas and […]
Abbas and Peres' mastery of manipulation forced them to profusely mourn the death of Mandela and at the same time robbed them of being able to do a bit of soul searching.
If the United States is so concerned about Israel’s security, why did it pressure Netanyahu into resuming “peace talks” by freeing PA murders who freely say they have “no regrets” for killing Jews?
Netanyahu finally has learned to repeat the same and telling points over and over: Abbas must view Israel as a Jewish state and Obama must see that a diplomatic solution in Iran requires a military threat.
Security safeguards for Israel proposed by the US were rejected by the PA
Kerry said the best words possible to keep alive his Peace Talk Follies and the worst thing possible to convince Israel when he stated, “Israel’s security is as the top of our agenda.”
By J. E. Dyer
Maybe it’s a tad undiplomatic to announce it publicly before telling Israel’s prime minister about it?
August 28, 2026 
