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| April 9, 2014
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Jerusalem Cutting Most Ties with Abbas’ Government

 

PM Netanyahu forbids meetings with Palestinians and all cooperation with the Palestinian Authority.

By Gil Ronen, Ari Yashar

 

Prime Minister Binyamin  has issued instructions to government ministries forbidding meetings with Palestinian officials, and halting all civilian and economic cooperation with the Palestinian Authority (PA), following the collapse of negotiations with the PA.

“In response to the Palestinian violation of their commitments under peace talks… Israel government ministers have been told to refrain from meeting their Palestinian counterparts,” the official told AFP, requesting anonymity.

The new instructions do not include the Defense Ministry or talks carried out as part of the Israel-PA negotiations. Continue Reading »

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| April 9, 2014
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Abbas worried Israel will freeze tax revenues to PA in retaliation to unilateral moves

 

PA official says Abbas will ask the Arab League for financial support in the event of Israeli economic sanctions.

By REUTERS, JPOST.COM STAFF

 

Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riad Malki said Tuesday that PA President Mahmoud Abbas will appeal at an Arab League meeting in Cairo on Wednesday for political and economic support in the event of Israeli punitive measures.

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Abbas at Arab League summit – Photo: REUTERS

Malki’s comments came after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu earlier this week issued a stern warning to the Palestinians about their application to join 15 international treaties and conventions and any future steps the PA might take outside the negotiating process to shore up legal standing as a state. Continue Reading »

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| April 3, 2014
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Palestinian Authority negotiating deal to pay Israel its electricity bill

Negotiations with the Palestinians over its ballooning debt to the Israel Electric Corp are making process, even as peace negotiations unravel.

By Avi Bar-Eli

 

 

Even as United States-sponsored peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians unravel, quiet negotiations over 1.4 billion shekels ($402 million) in unpaid electricity bills owed by the Palestinians are making progress.

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The Israel Electric Corporation provides the Palestinians about 7% of its total production via high-voltage electricity lines. – Photo: Reuters

The debt, which has been run up by the Palestinian Authority’s refusal to pay the Israel Electric Corporation for power supplied in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, has almost doubled in the past year.

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| March 30, 2014
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Palestinians gleaming with almost unanimous UNHRC support

 

Palestinian foreign minister contends result of UNHRC’s vote on 4 resolutions condemning Israel acknowledges “indisputable right” for Palestinian independence.

By TOVAH LAZAROFF

 

The Palestinians on Saturday welcomed the almost unanimous show of support they received at the United Nations Human Rights Council as it ended its 25th session in Geneva.

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Four resolutions condemning Israeli treatment of Palestinians in the West Bank, east Jerusalem and Gaza passed by a 46-to-1 vote. Italy, Germany and France on behalf of the European Union were among the nations that stood against Israel.

“This vote confirms the world’s clear condemnation of the systematic human rights violations committed by Israel, the occupying power, against the Palestinian people and their fundamental rights,” said Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riad Malki. Continue Reading »

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| March 25, 2014
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Abbas’s PA Promises Millions of Dollars to ‘Martyrs’ Families

PA gov’t encourages Palestinians to trade their lives for their families’ financial security – $74 million allocated to ‘Martyrs’ families ….compliments of U.S. taxpayers.

By Dalit Halevi, Tova Dvori

 

The Palestinian Authority (PA) continues to financially support terrorism, and families of terrorists were set to receive a great deal of that financial support, as PA official Rami Hamdallah pledged another $74 million from the PA budget to the families of ‘martyrs’ for the Palestinian Arab nationalist cause.

On Sunday, Hamdallah said that his government will continue to work to protect the rights of family members of the “martyrs” who were killed in the course of carrying out attacks on Israelis and their supporters abroad, and ensure that they “live dignified lives.” Continue Reading »

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| March 23, 2014
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Abbas: Nothing less than a fully sovereign state with east Jerusalem as its capital

 

Speaking at emergency Fatah Central Committee meeting in Ramallah, Abbas briefs officials on his refusals to compromise on all issues at meetings in the US.

By KHALED ABU TOAMEH
 

 

The Palestinians won’t accept anything less than a fully sovereign state with east Jerusalem as its capital, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said on Saturday.

Le président de l'Autorité palestinienne Mahmoud Abbas (g) et Barack Obama à la Maison Blanche, le 17 mars 2014 ( Saul Loeb (AFP) )

Abbas was speaking during an emergency meeting of the Fatah Central Committee in Ramallah.

The Palestinians won’t make any concessions on their rights “regardless of the pressure and threats,” he said.

A Fatah official quoted Abbas as complaining that the US administration was exerting heavy pressure on him to make concessions to Israel in order to boost the peace talks. Continue Reading »

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| March 21, 2014
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PA Report: Palestinian Authority on the brink of collapse

Achieving statehood would save the West Bank from an impending wave of violence, crime, chaos and disease, reports major Palestinian study.

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The breakdown of the Palestinian Authority would turn the West Bank into a violent, criminal, chaotic, disease-ridden place. But even though most Palestinians want the PA to survive, either for the sake of basic social order or personal interest, and although Israel dreads having to resume responsibility for 3 million West Bankers, President Mahmoud Abbas’ regime will collapse before too long if Israel continues to thwart Palestinian aspirations for independence.

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Palestinians throwing rocks, a ubiquitous image of the Intifada.-

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| March 16, 2014
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Palestinians ask UN to make Green Line a red one ‘seen from space’

Palestinians want new ‘Red Line’ to become the 1967 line’s new name and want the boundary visible from space.

By Josh Chester

 

The Palestinian Authority will ask the United Nations to change the color of the demarcation line that represents Israel’s pre-1967 borders, replacing the Green Line with a red one.

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An activist symbolically paints the Green Line in Jerusalem, June 2013. Where’s the red paint? – Photo: A. Daniel Roth

The Green Line, the product of the 1949 Armistice Agreements, became known as such simply because of the ink color used on the map. The Palestinians, however, say this arbitrary choice is sending out the wrong message. Continue Reading »

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| March 13, 2014
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Abbas is suggesting his rival Dahlan killed Arafat

 

Dahlan denies Abbas’ cynical claims, says when the time is ripe, he will “unveil the lies” surrounding death of Arafat, calling it “the most dangerous issue of our modern history.”

By REUTERS

 

 

RAMALLAH, West Bank – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has accused one of his main rivals, Mohammed Dahlan, of involvement in six murders, hinting that he might also be behind the death of former leader Yasser Arafat.

Dahlan & Mahmoud Abbas Photo: TARA TODRAS-WHITEHILL / REUTERS

Mohammed Dahlan & Mahmoud Abbas – Photo: TARA TODRAS-WHITEHILL/REUTERS

Dahlan, who lives in exile in the Gulf, denied the allegations of his arch foe Abbas, their bitter row now playing out publicly across the Palestinian media and on social media. Continue Reading »

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| March 13, 2014
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Israeli Minister warns Jerusalem may halt prisoner release if talks collapse

 

Jacob Perry, Yesh Atid’s ‘dovish’ science minister, tells Israel Hayom that he recognizes Israel’s Palestinian partner as ‘difficult.’

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Israel may block further prisoner releases if the Palestinian leadership refuses to extend negotiations by another year, top minister Jacob Perry told Israel Hayom in an interview to be published Friday.

Palestinians celebrate after Israel releases third batch of prisoners

A prisoner released from an Israeli prison is welcomed by relatives in the West Bank city of Ramallah early December 31, 2013. – Photo: Reuters

Perry, who joined Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid party and then the government as minister of Science and Technology in 2012 after serving as head of the Shin Bet security service and a long career in business, is considered to be dovish.

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| March 6, 2014
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Liberman tells Abbas: Israel refuses to accept conditions to continue talks

 

Foreign Minister Liberman says of the Palestinian Authority “Those who want to set conditions should look for other partners.”

By HERB KEINON

 

 

Israel will not accept any conditions for a continuation of talks with the Palestinians, foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman said Wednesday, rejecting new Palestinian demands that Israel freeze settlement construction and release more Palestinian prisoners in order to continue negotiations past their late April deadline.

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman – Photo: Marc Israel Sellem/The Jerusalem Post

“There will be no conditions,” Liberman said Wednesday at a meeting in Tel Aviv of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants in Israel.

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| March 5, 2014
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Palestinians: PM Netanyahu’s AIPAC speech basically terminates negotiations

Labor leader MK Herzog ‘believes less & less’ that the Prime Minister intends on leading Israel to a diplomatic solution with the Palestinians.

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared a unilateral end to peace talks in his speech at the annual AIPAC conference, a top Palestinian official said on Tuesday.

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Prime Minister Netanyahu addressing the AIPAC conference. – Photo: AFP

 

In his address to a gathering of the pro-Israel lobby, Netanyahu reiterated his demand that the Palestinians recognize Israel as a nation-state of the Jewish people.

“President Abbas, recognize the Jewish state,” Netanyahu declared. “In doing so you will tell your people that, though we have a territorial dispute, Israel’s right to exist is beyond dispute.

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| March 3, 2014
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Exiled Fatah leader Mohammad Dahlan aspires to replace Abbas

 

Fatah officials deny rumors that ousted Dahlan is vying to replace Palestinian President, but Palestinian voters may welcome him.

By Abdullah H. Erakat,  the Media Line

 

RAMALLAH – Mohammad Dahlan, the former leader of Fatah in Gaza who was expelled from the party three years ago, has quietly begun his campaign for president of the Palestinian Authority, a political analyst says.

Mohammed Dahlan during an interview with The Associated Press - Photo: Majdi Mohammed

Mohammed Dahlan during an interview with The Associated Press – Photo: Majdi Mohammed

A spokesperson for Fatah, the largest faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) has called the news “rumors.”

“He’s a fact that nobody can ignore in the daily political life,” Khalil Shaheen, a Palestinian political analyst, told The Media Line. Continue Reading »

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| March 2, 2014
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IEC Warns Palestinians: Pay Your Electric Bill or be Switched Off Grid

Sunday, the Israel Electric Company issued the Palestinian Authority a final warning to pay their debt of over one billion shekels, or the grid supplying them electricity will be turned off.

By David Lev

 

The Israel Electric Company on Sunday issued a final warning to the Palestinian Authority (PA) – pay up or get cut off. The IEC gave the PA three days to come up with NIS 1.4 billion (nearly half a billion dollars) the Authority owes it. If it does not get the money, the company will cut power to the PA.

Electricity on the way to the Palestinians – IsraelandStuff/PP

The PA is in this jam because it has habitually failed to pay its electric bill, despite the fact that it received money specifically for this purpose from various international donors. Continue Reading »

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| February 26, 2014
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Again Palestinian Authority owes Israel Electric Co money, this time $389 million

 

Knesset Finance Committee is told that PA’s debt is increasing by $20-$22 million a month, and if unpaid, Israel Electric Co. might have to raise prices for Israeli customers.

By Zeev Klein

 

 

If the Israel Electric Company were a private entity, it would shut off electricity to the Palestinian Authority because of the PA’s outstanding bill of 1.37 billion shekels ($389 million), IEC Chairman Yiftah Ron-Tal told the Knesset Finance Committee on Tuesday.

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Electricity for the Palestinian Authority – Photo: IsraelandStuff/PP

“People complain about the perk of free electricity that company employees receive. But the users that get the most free electricity are the Palestinians,” Ron-Tal said.

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