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Opinion How Important Is Trump’s Meeting With Abbas?
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will soon meet with President Trump at the White House for the first time. After strongly proclaiming support for Israel throughout his presidential campaign, Trump now has an opportunity to reach out to Benjamin Netanyahu’s counterpart. Here’s what top Middle East hands say about the critical summit. Aaron David Miller,…
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Fast Forward Reform Movement Leaders Meet With Mahmoud Abbas In Ramallah
(JTA) — Leaders of the U.S. Reform movement met with Palestinian Authority President President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah. The delegation of around 30 leaders from the Union for Reform Judaism, led by its president, Rabbi Rick Jacobs, met with Abbas and other Palestinian officials Thursday afternoon. Discussions during the meeting, which represented the first time…
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Community In Israel, A Case For The Status Quo
The status quo is not the ideal solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But it’s better than any of the alternatives. And sometimes that’s the best that can be done in an imperfect world. Secretary of State John Kerry argued in his recent speech that Israel can be either democratic or Jewish, but not both. What…
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Israel News EXCLUSIVE: Does Aid to Palestinians Subsidize the Families of Terrorists?
In July, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced a dramatic step against alleged support for terrorism by the Palestinian Authority: Henceforth, he declared, Israel would withhold a portion of the tax revenues it owes to the P.A. in response to the Palestinian leadership’s own payouts to terrorists and their families. The announcement came on the…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Authority ‘On the Brink of Collapse,’ Mahmoud Abbas Admits
The Palestinian Authority is “on the brink of collapse,” its president, Mahmoud Abbas, told Israeli TV. In an interview with Channel 2 broadcast Thursday night, Abbas also warned of “chaos” if the security cooperation between the P.A. and Israel stops. “There will be rifles and explosions and armed militants everywhere,” Abbas said, according to i24news….
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Fast Forward Palestinian Authority Rejects Iranian Funding For Terrorists’s Families
(JTA) — The Palestinian Authority rejected an announcement by Iran saying the Islamic Republic would pay thousands of dollars to families of Palestinians killed while carrying out terror attacks against Israelis. Financial assistance to such families is the purview of the Palestinian Authority, Nabil Abu Rudeina, spokesman for Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, reportedly said…
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Fast Forward Israeli Left-Winger in Cahoots With Palestinians Put on House Arrest
A left-wing Jewish-Israeli activist who was recorded saying he helps Palestinian authorities find and kill Palestinians who sell land to Jews was released from jail and put on house arrest. The Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court ordered the release of Ezra Nawi on Sunday, two weeks after he was arrested as he attempted to board a plane…
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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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