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Thee eastern Jerusalem Arabs were sentenced to prison terms of four to seven years Wednesday for organizing Hamas activities and spreading its ideology. The Jerusalem court verdict declared that Hamas is trying “to take control of Jerusalem” through social activities, which is exactly the model Hezbollah used to take over southern Lebanon. The court denied […]
By Ron Kampeas
“As we have since the beginning of the process, we continue to support Secretary Kerry’s diplomatic efforts to achieve a secure and lasting peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians,” AIPAC spokesman Marshall Wittman said in a statement to JTA.
The increasing number of Jerusalem Arab terror plots is scarier than the “peace talks.”
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has sent an open letter to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry criticizing him for his threat that Israel faces boycotts if the American-backed peace talks with the Palestinian Authority do not succeed. ADL’s director Abraham H. Foxman also sharply rapped Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas for his “unwillingness to accept […]
The closer Kerry gets to his self-imposed deadline, the more Israel tries to put facts on the ground.
The New York Times once again serves as a mouthpiece for bald-faced Arab deception disguised as the truth.
By JTA
Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas told The New York Times he would be willing to allow a U.S.-led NATO force to patrol a Palestinian state for an indefinite amount of time. Israeli soldiers and Israeli settlements could remain for five years from the state’s establishment, Abbas said in an interview with The New York Times […]
By Tibbi Singer
Kerry shares many of his unique and original solutions for Jerusalem, the Jordan Valley and Tel Aviv.
By JTA
The description of a possible U.S.-drafted framework for Israeli-Palestinian peace that Martin Indyk, the top U.S. Middle East envoy, delivered to a group of Jewish leaders was not final, the State Department said. “During an off the record briefing with Jewish leaders, Ambassador Indyk reiterated the well-known United States position in support of 1967 borders […]
By JTA
The Obama administration will soon present a framework for an Israeli-Palestinian agreement that the sides may accept with reservations as a basis for a final deal by year’s end, the top U.S. negotiator told Jewish leaders. Martin Indyk, the State Department’s lead envoy to the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, told Jewish leaders on Thursday that the framework […]
The Palestinian Authority called the kettle black Thursday and accused the Netanyahu government of inciting against Mahmoud Abbas and damaging the peace process, the PA official WAFA news agency said. Abbas’ spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh said, “The positions of the president [Abbas] and the Palestinian leadership are aimed at protecting the rights of the Palestinian […]
The unrepentant murderer of two Israeli college students was praised, rewarded, employed and promoted.
No one illustrates the posture of power of the United States of America more than John Kerry.
The nationalist Legal Grounds organization in Israeli has applauded actress Scarlett Johansson for standing up for Israeli-based SodaStream and invited her to Israel as their guest “to see for herself the benefits that SodaStream and other Israeli companies based in Judea and Samaria provide to people of all religions and ethnicities.” SodaStream recently signed on […]
The Palestinian Authority promotes terror as “resistance” and speaks the truth in inaction more than in words.
Bennett gets the headline, Abbas scores a point and Netanyahu has the last word.
Land must be liberated from the "impurity of Zionism" and "Armed struggle" continues in 2014 -- pass it on...
SodaStream is believed to be the first Israeli firm to introduce a court case against the Palestinian lobby.
Israeli security forces in 2013 foiled 40 attempted or planned attacks by terrorists who were freed by Israel in November 2011 for the return of kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit, the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) reported Monday in its annual summary of terror. In addition, several attacks were carried out by other terrorists freed in […]
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Israeli negotiator and Justice Minister Tzipi Livni are the only two people who still believe in negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman said in Tel Aviv Monday night. “The Israelis are the Palestinians are ambivalent towards their future and towards the […]
Maybe the crow and the seagull know something that most of us know but the pope won’t believe.
No one seems to remember that Netanyahu once won a stalemate with chess master Natan Sharansky.
The “culture of hatred” promoted by the Palestinian Authority and that has been more pronounced since the resumption of “peace talks” since last July "undermines the chances for peace between Israel and the Palestinians," the Foreign Ministry stated on Sunday. It tied the resumption of discussions with a sharp increase in terrorist attacks. There were […]
By JTA
Israeli negotiators are discussing a series of limited withdrawals linked to progress by the Palestinian Authority in maintaining security, a senior Palestinian official said. The withdrawals are part of a plan for a peace agreement being brokered by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, according to an interview with Yasser Abed Rabbo published in the […]
The world’s most enticing woman inadvertently is exposing the BDS as being bad for Arabs.
Abbas has either completely lost control of his mind or lost control of his Fatah’s party incitement.
President Shimon Peres has told diplomatic officials that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's demand that the Palestinian Authority recognize Israel as a “Jewish State” is “unnecessary” and is an obstacle to a peace pact, the Yisrael HaYom newspaper reported Wednesday. The “Jewish state” issue has been one of Netanyahu’s’ favorite ploys to make PA chairman Mahmoud […]
JERUSALEM – Despite Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s refusal to accept Israel as a Jewish state and no apparent movement on key issues such as settlement construction, Secretary of State Kerry seems determined to issue a memorandum of understanding at a summit meeting scheduled for next week with Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian leaders in Aqaba.
Al Qaeda operates in Judea and Samaria through the Internet in Gaza.
In reality, there were only 700,000 displaced Palestinians following Israel’s 1948 war of Independence.
Israel should hire Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper as its ambassador to the world.
It’s all over but the shouting.
Hamas, Islamic Jihad and brethren may be able to blow up the “peace talks” with a bit more war.
Kerry is whistling Dixie to think that everything that helps the Palestinian Authority helps Israel.
Canada’s constant support of Israel since Harper became Prime Minister is a rare example of intellectual honesty.
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 […]
The furor over remarks by Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon about U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry show that the Palestinian Authority-Israeli “quality that they all share, so stupendously in an exhibitionist way, is to explain why it's the U.S.'s fault,” U.S.-Israel relations expert Alon Pinkas told NBC World News. The Yediot Acharonot journalist who wrote […]
Yesh Atid party chairman Yair Lapid, Israel’s favorite chameleon, declared on Wednesday that he does not trust the Palestinian Authority and would not depend on it to keep Israel safe while having full control of the Jordan Valley. He took what he said is a centrist view - against annexing Jewish communities in Judea and […]
Arabs who attack Jews cannot return to terror if they never left their favorite pastime.
The Rabbinical Congress for Peace (RCP), comprising over 350 prominent Israeli rabbis, has sent a letter of support and encouragement to Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon for his clear and fearless remarks that “enough is enough.” The rabbis assured him that the Torah supports those who “stand firm, speak the truth, and thereby lead to a […]
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.
Approximately 30 Arabs and leftists blocked the entrance of the community of Elazar, between Efrat and Jerusalem, Monday morning until the IDF arrived to clear them away. Accompanied by media to film the blockade, the protesters said they wanted to headline their claim that Jews are living on occupied Arab land. They managed to block […]
Abbas promised he would reiterate this stance during a meeting with Kerry.
By JTA
President Obama reaffirmed his commitment to Israel’s security in his condolence message on the death of Ariel Sharon. “On behalf of the American people, Michelle and I send our deepest condolences to the family of former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and to the people of Israel on the loss of a leader who dedicated […]
By JTA
Israel published tenders for 600 new homes in East Jerusalem and 801 in Judea and Samaria settlements. Government officials delayed the announcement until U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry had ended his latest peace-brokering tour in the region, Army Radio reported. European leaders and the United States had urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not […]
Israel's foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman's proposal of several years ago, which he now has taken down from the attic and dusted it off, that some Arab towns and villages be handed over to a future Palestinian state in exchange for the Jewish towns and villages in Judea and Samaria – is not making him friends […]
'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.
The very thought of an American diplomat saying that Pollard is a traitor but should be freed in return for Israel’s agreeing to Palestinian Authority terms reaches the most obscene depth of hypocrisy.
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
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 […]
The Netanyahu made good its promise to announce new homes for Jews in Judea and Samaria after the latest release of Palestinian Authority terrorists, but in fact, the “new homes” already have been announced. The 272 new homes announced on Tuesday are to be built in Ofra, north of Jerusalem, and Karnei Shomron, approximately 10 […]
By JTA
Israel published plans to build nearly 300 Judea and Samaria apartments as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry wrapped up a visit to the Middle East without an official framework agreement between Israeli and Palestinian negotiators. Kerry left Israel for the United States on Monday after pressing U.S.-brokered Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations for several days. The […]
A spoof website now offers the world “John Kerry Solutions, Ltd,” an offer for anyone wanting to solve problems as he has done the past year in the Middle East. The My Israel organization, in coordination with the Council of Jewish Communities of Judea and Samaria, created the website with its promotional material below: […]
Perhaps the most remarkable things about Olmert’s speech Monday night were that people still pay him to speak and anyone listens to him.
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.
By JTA
U.S. Secretary of State Kohn Kerry reportedly will remain in Israel in order to hold additional talks leading to an Israeli –Palestinian peace treaty. Kerry, who arrived in Israel on Thursday, flew to Saudi Arabia on Sunday morning in order to report to Arab leaders on the negotiations. He told reporters in Israel as he […]
Kerry is manipulating peace talks as if Hamas does not exist, but one day, he will have to come terms with reality.
Kerry ignored the comments.
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
An American "diplomatic initiative" is an end run around the Israeli government.
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 […]
By Tibbi Singer
Bennett: "When we stand strong, even if there are no negotiations, there is quiet."
Israel will trade 26 more terrorists for between 1,000 and 2,000 new homes for Jews in Judea and Samaria, according to a government official quoted by Israeli television Wednesday. There is a broad consensus in Israel against freeing more terrorists in the four-step release plan to release 104 terrorists and security prisoners during the nine […]
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 […]
By JTA
The IDF is returning an Iron Dome anti-missile system to the Sderot, located less than a mile from northern Gaza, in wake of the escalation of terrorist attacks from Gaza. Terrorists on Tuesday killed an Israeli citizen working for the army at the Gaza security fence, and the IDF retaliated with strikes on terror targets. […]
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 […]
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will demand from President Barack Obama that he free Jonathan Pollard from jail as a condition for the next scheduled release of Palestinian Authority terrorists, according to Israel’s Channel 2 television. The office of the Prime Minister has not commented on the report, which did not quote a specific source. Channel […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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.
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