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| August 8, 2013
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PA to US official: PA books not perfect, but working on teaching mutual respect

 

Democratic Whip says the US will not want to fund Palestinian schools after PLO representative admits there’s unfair portrayal of Jews in PA curriculum.

By HERB KEINON

 

 

 

No group on earth has been subjected to more discrimination and hate than the Jews, and the US will not fund curriculum in the Palestinian Authority that does not teach tolerance and mutual respect, US Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Maryland) said on Wednesday.

East Jerusalem Classroom

East Jerusalem Classroom – Photo: REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman

Hoyer, leading a massive delegation of 36 Democratic US congressman, said this issue was the first one he broached during a meeting Wednesday in Ramallah with PLO negotiator Saeb Erekat.

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| July 28, 2013
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Abbas’ PA Pirate Radio Stations’ Signals Interfere at Israel’s Ben Gurion Int’l Airport

Palestinian Authority’s pirate radio stations are unregulated and dangerously interfering with Ben Gurion Int’l Airport’s air tower communication network.

By Chana Ya’ar

 

 

Signals from Palestinian Authority pirate radio stations are interfering with the air tower communication network at Ben Gurion International Airport.

Officials from the Israel Airports Authority turned to the Ministry of Communications on Sunday, asking that the source of the interference be tracked down.

All radio transmissions are regulated by law; unauthorized signals are subject to termination, and their operators can be charged with in connection with the broadcast.

Pirate broadcast signals also interfere with reception of Israeli radio stations throughout Judea and Samaria (Yehuda and Shomron), as well as broadcast signals in the northern Negev region. Continue Reading »

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| July 26, 2013
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Foreign Ministry to Kerry: Pre-’67 borders as basis for talks contravenes US commitments

 

Alan Baker says any US guarantee to the Palestinians over borders violate a US promise previously written to Israel.

By HERB KEINON

 

 

Any US guarantee to the Palestinians that the upcoming negotiations with Israel will be based on the pre-1967 lines would be a violation of written US commitments given to then-prime minister Ariel Sharon, former Foreign Ministry legal adviser Alan Baker wrote in a letter sent this week to Secretary of State John Kerry.

IDF tanks and ambulance on the Gaza border - Photo: Ronen Zvulun / Reuters

IDF tanks and ambulance on the Gaza border – Photo: Ronen Zvulun / Reuters

Baker wrote the letter on behalf of the Legal Forum for Israel, along with another attorney with the group, Yossi Fuchs.

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| July 25, 2013
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ex-PA official: Abbas is a dictator

 

Mohammed Dahlan, a former PA security chief and member of the Fatah Central Committee has filed an int’l lawsuit against Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, threatening to provide evidence exposing the vast corruption that continues to plague the Palestinian Authority.

The Palestinian state America & Europe are forcing on Israel will be as corrupt & repressed as Iran, Gaza or most other Islamic states.

By Ryan Jones

 

 

The Palestinian state that America and Europe are pressuring Israel to help create by surrendering its biblical heartland will be a repressive dictatorship on par with the region’s worst regimes, according to a leading Palestinian official. Continue Reading »

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| July 18, 2013
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Electricity theft by Palestinians the theme of this year’s Ramadan morality campaign

Palestinian theft of electricity increases debt to Israel by $70 million each year. Palestinian Authority fear Israel will pull plug, sinking them into darkness

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RAMALLAH – During the pre-dawn hours in the holy month of Ramadan, while many are preparing a pre-dawn breakfast in preparation of the daylong-fast, others are tapping into the electricity grid. It’s an act that costs the cash-strapped Palestinian Authority (PA) millions of dollars annually.

Electricity on the way to the Palestinians

Electricity on the way to the Palestinians – Photo: IsraelandStuff/PP

Again this year, authorities will treat electricity theft like other personal bad habits rather than as a crime, working to prevent it through an advertising campaign that stresses morality during Ramadan, encouraging citizens to end the costly practice voluntarily. Continue Reading »

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| June 29, 2013
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Real Apartheid: An Italian Jew is Banned from Joining PA Delegation

He sent Abbas a letter, a missive from a proud Jew whose words show up the cowardly Italian gov’t & the openly apartheid policies of Abbas’ Palestinian Authority.

By Giulio Meotti

 

The concept of removing a religious or ethnic community from a certain region brings back the dark memories of World War II, yet has become mainstream when it is applied to a part of the land of Israel.

Hamas cartoon – Israel news photo screenshotA recent official visit to Ramallah, the “capital” of the Palestinian Authority, by the official delegation of the Italian city of Turin, and led by leftist mayor Piero Fassino, could not include the Vice President of the Jewish Community, Emanuel Segre Amar. Continue Reading »

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| June 22, 2013
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Israel Electric Corporation Recommends: Cut Off Power to PA

Israel’s Electric company has put together a list of sanctions for the gov’t to impose on the PA, which owes it 820 million shekels.

By Elad Benari

 

The Israel Electric Corporation (IEC) has put together a list of sanctions that it could impose on the Palestinian Authority (PA) if it does not pay its debt to the IEC, which currently stands at 820 million shekels.

Electricity on the way to the Palestinians

Electricity on the way to the Palestinians – Photo: IsraelandStuff/PP

The PA acquires 95% of its electricity in Judea and Samaria and 75% of its electricity in Gaza from Israel.

According to a document published on Channel 10 News on Thursday, the IEC is suggesting four possible measures against the PA in order to get it to pay the money it owes. Continue Reading »

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| June 17, 2013
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Israeli & Palestinian finance ministers meet to boost the PA

Israel’s finance minister

Lapid meets Palestinian counterpart to discuss economic cooperation renewal, including joint investments & trade to make the PA economy viable.

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In their first meeting, Israeli and Palestinian finance ministers have agreed on a series of economic cooperation projects.

Lapid, Bashara Photo: Anat Hamami, Finance Ministry SpokespersonSunday’s meeting between Israel’s Yair Lapid (Yesh Atid) and the Palestinians’ Shukri Bashara marked the first high-profile meeting between officials since the new Israeli government took office in March.

Lapid said cooperation would include joint investments and trade between the sides. He said it would benefit both and vowed to “continue to strengthen the connection and promote important economic issues that are important to both sides.” Continue Reading »

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| June 15, 2013
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Nablus father ‘scared to death’ after Palestinian police arrest son

 

The victim, Sa’di al-Sakhel, suffered a massive coronary after Abbas’ security agents arrested his son Musab.

By KHALED ABU TOAMEH
 

 

A 62-year-old Palestinian man from Nablus died of a heart attack on Saturday shortly after Palestinian Authority security forces arrested his son.
PA policeman.

PA policeman. – Photo: REUTERS

The man, Sa’di al-Sakhel, suffered a massive heart attack after security agents belonging to the Preventive Security Force arrested his son, Musab.

The son was released immediately after the father was pronounced dead at the Al-Arabi Hospital in Nablus.

A PA security source said that Musab was suspected of membership in Hamas.

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| June 13, 2013
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Arabs say ‘No’ to Israel’s Western Wall plans for egalitarian prayer-site

PA religious affairs minister says replacing Mugrabi Bridge to Temple Mount for egalitarian section may “push all of us to new conflicts and problems,” stressing the Western Wall is an Islamic holy site.

By GIL HOFFMAN
 

 

The Palestinian Authority will not permit Israel to change the entrance to the Temple Mount in order to facilitate the building of an egalitarian prayer area near the Western Wall, PA Religious Affairs Minister Mahmoud El Habash told The Jerusalem Post in Ramallah Thursday morning.

PA Religious Affairs Minister Mahmoud El Habash.- Photo Gil Hoffman

PA Religious Affairs Minister Mahmoud El Habash.- Photo Gil Hoffman

Sharansky’s plan will allow for the construction of an additional section of the Western Wall Plaza at the southern end of the Kotel, equal in size and height as the northern prayer area, for egalitarian prayer and accessible as part of one unified Western Wall complex with a single entrance.

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| June 8, 2013
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American Foreign Policy: Wounded & Dangerous

Israeli leaders for the most part have reacted to U.S. Sec. of St.  John Kerry’s constant harping by rolling their eyes. He seems like a complete lunatic. Obviously Kerry will fail and the best thing we can do is smile and nod, like you do when you are dealing with a crazy person.

By CAROLINE B. GLICK

 

US Secretary of State John Kerry looks like a bit of an idiot these days. On Monday he announced that he will be returning to Israel and the Palestinian Authority and Jordan for the fifth time since he was sworn into office on February 1. Continue Reading »

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| June 3, 2013
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Another Palestinian journalist arrested by Abbas’ security for reporting on Fatah

Abbas’s Security forces arrest Palestinian journalist for reporting on leaflet calling for the resignation of Bethlehem’s Mayor

By KHALED ABU TOAMEH

 

 
Palestinian Authority security forces on Monday arrested Palestinian journalist George Canawati, director of Bethlehem Radio 2000, for reporting about a leaflet distributed by Fatah’s armed wing, Aqsa Martyrs Brigades.
A masked militant from Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades of the Fatah movement in Hebron, August 3, 2008. - Photo REUTERS-Nayef Hashlamoun

A masked militant from Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades of the Fatah movement in Hebron, August 3, 2008. – Photo: REUTERS/Nayef Hashlamoun

The PA prosecutor-general ordered the arrest of Canawati for 48 hours.
Canawati is accused of reporting on his radio station about the leaflet, which attacked Bethlehem Mayor Vera Baboun, and called for her resignation.

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| May 31, 2013
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PA Condemns Israel for Cancelling ‘Politicized’ UNESCO Mission to Jerusalem

The PA’s foreign ministry blasts Israel for its cancelling a UNESCO investigative mission to Jerusalem’s Old City, after the PA manipulated the schedule to politicize it.

By Elad Benari

 

The Palestinian Authority’s foreign ministry slammed Israel on Thursday for having called off a United Nations investigative mission to Jerusalem’s Old City, calling it an act of “contempt of international law and institutions,” according to AFP.

David's Citadel in Jerusalem - IsraelandStuff-PP

David’s Citadel in Jerusalem – Photo: IsraelandStuff/PP

The ministry said it “condemns in the strongest possible terms the decision of Israel, the occupying power, to prevent the technical mission of UNESCO from carrying its monitoring mission in the Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls.” Continue Reading »

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| May 29, 2013
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Terrorist who killed 38 Israelis elevated to PA adviser to cease hunger strike

Madman behind 1978 Coastal Road massacre made adviser to President Abbas, when he stopped his hunger-strike after being ignored & publicly humiliated.

By KHALED ABU TOAMEH

 

 

Hussein Fayyad, one of the commanders of the terror group that carried out the 1978 Coastal Road massacre, revealed on Tuesday that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas had appointed him as one of his advisers.

Coastal Road Massacre Bus - Photo by Wikimedia Commons

Coastal Road Massacre Bus – Photo by Wikimedia Commons

The attack, which led to the killing of 38 Israeli civilians, including 13 children, was planned and carried out by Abbas’s Fatah faction.

Fayyad, who was released in a prisoner swap with Israel in 1985, said that Abbas signed a decree in 2008 promoting him to the position of “advisor” to the PA president.

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| May 21, 2013
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Former PA intel officer ‘sentenced to death for selling home to a Jew’

Capital crime in what is to become Palestine: Former Palestinian Authority intelligence officer Muhammad Abu Shahala was sentenced to death for selling his home in Hebron to a Jew.

By Daily Mail Reporter

 

A former Palestinian intelligence officer has reportedly been sentenced to death after it was revealed he had sold his home to Jews.

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas - Photo Mark Israel Sellem

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas – Photo: Mark Israel Sellem

Muhammad Abu Shahala, who worked for the Palestinian Authority reportedly confessed under torture to selling his home in Hebron on the West Bank to a Jewish man.

Jewish officials are now calling for the international community to get involved to save Mr Abu Shahala’s life. Continue Reading »

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