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Opinion WATCH: PLO Envoy Calls Hamas Rockets ‘Crimes Against Humanity’
Here’s a remarkable bit of television — official Palestinian Authority TV, to be specific — in which the Palestinian delegate to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva tells an interviewer that Hamas’s rocket fire from Gaza is a crime against humanity. Plain and simple, no hedging. In Arabic (with English subtitles). Watch it…
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Breaking News Mahmoud Abbas Calls Gaza Attack ‘Genocide’ — Moves To Join International Criminal Court
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas called Israel’s expanded operation in Gaza a “genocide” — and moved ahead with plans to join the International Criminal Court. “It’s genocide — the killing of entire families is genocide by Israel against our Palestinian people,” he told a meeting of the Palestinian leadership at his headquarters in the West…
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Opinion Palestinians Seen Easing Terms for Renewing Talks
The Palestinian daily Al Quds reported on its website Monday afternoon, quoting a “knowledgeable source,” that the Palestinian leadership had decided to return to the negotiating table for two more months, with the aim of laying out the borders between Israel and a potential Palestinian state, according to Walla! News reporter Amir Tibon. The source…
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Breaking News Israel Revives Funding Ban for Leftist NGOs
The Knesset is once again attempting to restrict foreign donations to certain nongovernmental organizations: MK Ayelet Shaked, chairwoman of the Habayit Hayehudi Knesset faction, submitted a new bill on this subject on Tuesday. According to the bill, groups that call for boycotting Israel or for indicting Israel Defense Force soldiers in international tribunals are among…
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Breaking News International Criminal Court Opens Probe Into Israel’s Raid on Gaza Flotilla
The International Criminal Court’s prosecutor said on Tuesday she would open a preliminary examination into events surrounding the 2010 Israeli raid on a humanitarian aid flotilla bound for the Gaza strip, in which nine Turkish activists were killed. The prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, said in a statement that she was obliged to open a preliminary examination…
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Breaking News Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas May Turn to The Hague If Talks Sputter
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called in a speech Tuesday for the Arab League to appeal to the UN and to the international community in an attempt to “stop Israel’s settlement policy in the West Bank, with an emphasis on East Jerusalem.” Speaking at the Arab League summit in Doha, Abbas informed the heads of Arab…
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Breaking News Palestinians May Drag Israel to International Court Over Settlements
The Palestinians declared that they will have no choice but to complain about Israel to the International Criminal Court if the Jewish state proceeds with plans to build housing on land the Palestinians want for a future state. Speaking to reporters after a meeting of the U.N. Security Council on the Middle East, Palestinian Foreign…
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