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Breaking News Israel Formally Suspends Peace Talks With Palestinians
Israel formally suspended peace talks with the Palestinian Authority over the P.A.’s national unity accord signed with the Hamas authority in the Gaza Strip. “The Cabinet today unanimously decided that Israel will not negotiate with a Palestinian government backed by Hamas, a terrorist organization that calls for Israel’s destruction,” said a statement by Israeli Prime…
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Breaking News Israel’s Security Cabinet Meets To Discuss Palestinian Unity Accord
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called an emergency meeting of the Security Cabinet to discuss Israel’s responses to the Palestinian’s unity agreement. The Cabinet met Thursday in the wake of the agreement signed Wednesday between Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party and Hamas, considered a terrorist organization in both Israel and the United States….
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Breaking News U.S. Might Cut Aid to Palestinian Unity Government
The United States would have to reconsider its assistance to the Palestinians if Islamist group Hamas and the Palestinian Liberation Organization form a government together, a senior U.S. administration official said on Thursday. Gaza-based Hamas – which is listed by the United States as a terrorist organisation – and President Mahmoud Abbas’s West Bank-based PLO…
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Opinion Palestinian Unity and the Beggar of Chelm
Palestinians in Gaza City on Wednesday celebrating Hamas-Fatah unity pact. / Getty Images Old Jewish joke: The beggar of Chelm goes to the rabbi’s house and pleads in a most pitiful tone: “Please rabbi, I haven’t eaten in days. Won’t you please give me a ruble to buy some food?” The rabbi is touched and…
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Breaking News U.S. ‘Disappointed’ by Palestinian Unity Deal
The United States said on Wednesday it was disappointed by a unity pact agreed between the Gaza-based Islamist group Hamas and President Mahmoud Abbas’ Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and said it could seriously complicate peace efforts. “The timing was troubling and we were certainly disappointed in the announcement,” State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told a…
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Breaking News Israel Scraps Talks as Palestinians Forge Unity
Israel on Wednesday canceled a planned session of peace negotiations with the Palestinians shortly after a unity deal was signed in Gaza between Hamas Islamists and President Mahmoud Abbas’s Palestine Liberation Organisation. A statement from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said: “Israel has cancelled a negotiations meeting that was expected to be held this evening,”…
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Breaking News Benjamin Netanyahu Warns Mahmoud Abbas: It’s Israel or Hamas
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cautioned Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday over just-revived unity talks with Hamas, saying he had to choose between peace with Israel or its Islamist enemy. Delegates from Abbas’s Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) and Hamas representatives held a fence-mending session on Tuesday in the Gaza Strip, their first since a…
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Breaking News Palestinian College Chief Resigns After Hamas Rally on West Bank Campus
Sari Nusseibeh, the president of the Palestinian Al-Quds University, resigned three days after a rally in support of Hamas at its eastern Jerusalem campus. Nusseibeh will step down at the end of the academic year, according to an announcement on the university’s website. The announcement said that Nusseibeh announced his decision on Wednesday at a…
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