Tag Archive for Arab-Israeli conflict

What Does Abbas’s Latest Threats to Quit Really Mean?

 

 

Why doesn’t Abbas consider the possibility of handing the “keys” to another Palestinian? Abbas apparently believes that if he cannot lead the Palestinian Authority no one else should — that if he comes down, then the entire Palestinian Authority should also collapse. A changing of the guard is something that the US and the EU, the major funders of Abbas and his associates, could play a major role in bringing about.

By Khaled Abu Toameh

 

Mahmoud Abbas has once again threatened to dismantle the Palestinian Authority which he heads in the West Bank.

This time he chose to make his new old threat in an interview with the daily Haaretz. Continue Reading »

Netanyahu speaks to National Public Diplomacy Forum

Netanyahu: Conflict with the Palestinians is Not About Settlements. The entire conflict between Israel and the Arabs is over their denial of Israel’s right to exist. There is no way to fight their lies except with the truth.

By Elad Benari

 

The entire conflict between Israel and the Arabs is over their denial of Israel’s right to exist and not about Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday.

Netanyahu spoke at the meeting of the National Public Diplomacy Forum to summarize the recent Operation Pillar of Defense, which targeted Hamas’s terror infrastructure in Gaza. Continue Reading »