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Fast Forward ‘Palestinian Political Bankruptcy’ Adds to Mideast Woes
As Israel frets about the lifting of sanctions on Iran and its troubled relations with the European Union, on the other side of the Middle East conflict – the Palestinians – an uneasy quiet has fallen that speaks of ideas running out. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, elected to a four-year term 11 years ago this…
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Fast Forward Poland Gives High Honor to a Top Palestinian Official
WARSAW, Poland – The Palestinian Authority’s Minister of Information, Mahmoud Khalifa, was awarded the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland, one of the highest honors that can be given to a foreigner. Khalifa is a former activist of the Palestine Liberation Organization. For many years he lived in Poland and is a graduate…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Authority is Not About to Collapse, Says Mahmoud Abbas
JERUSALEM — The Palestinian Authority is not going to collapse, despite reports to the contrary, PA President Mahmoud Abbas said. “The Palestinian Authority exists and it is here. It will be followed by a Palestinian state. The Palestinian Authority is one of our achievements and we won’t give it up,” Abbas said Wednesday night from…
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Fast Forward John Kerry Warns Israel Heading for One-State Reality
(JTA) — Secretary of State John Kerry, speaking at an annual U.S.-Israel confab, said Israel’s government must consider the consequences of evolving toward a single state incorporating the Palestinian areas. “How does Israel possibly maintain its character as a Jewish democratic state?” Kerry said Saturday at the Saban Forum in Washington, D.C. Would Palestinians “be…
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Fast Forward Israel Unfreezes Hundreds Of Millions in Palestinian Tax Revenues
Israel said on Friday it would release millions of dollars of tax income to the Palestinian Authority, three months after freezing the payments in protest at unilateral Palestinian moves towards statehood. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said the funds would be sent for humanitarian reasons and “Israel’s interests,” without saying whether the transfer would be…
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Opinion Palestinians Cut Security Ties With Israel — Not
“Palestinians cut security coordination with Israel”? Really? This looks like another one of those cases where the press gets out ahead of the story. The initial headlines (here, here) said the Palestinians have cut security coordination between their forces and Israel’s. The stories under the headlines said that actually the PLO’s central council had either…
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Fast Forward Congressional Spending Bill OKs Israel Defense Aid
The massive spending bill passed by Congress includes defense assistance for Israel along with tightened oversight of Palestinian funding and Iran nuclear talks. Included in the $1.1 trillion omnibus bill passed in the Senate by a 56-40 vote on Saturday night was the $3.1 billion in annual defense spending for Israel under a 2007 memorandum…
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Fast Forward 11 Families of American Terrorist Victims Can Sue P.A. for $1 Billion, Court Ruled
A civil lawsuit filed by 11 families of American terrorist victims against the Palestinian Authority and Palestinian Liberation Organization can go to trial, a federal court ruled. The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled Thursday that there was sufficient evidence to present to a jury concerning the involvement of the…
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