Caroline Glick has taken note of the major events affecting Israel in just one week of mid-November. Her analysis is here: “At a diplomatic crossroad, it’s time for Israel to act,” by Caroline B. Glick, Israel Hayom, November 20, 2020: Three diplomatic events transpired this week. Together they describe the crossroads before which Israel now stands […]
Palestinian Christians caught between growing Islamic movements and inept Palestinian Authority
The Palestinian Authority’s recent decision to restore security coordination with Israel, which was suspended since last May, did not stem from its concern for the Israeli security, nor from its desire to live up to the responsibilities entrusted in it since its establishment in 1994. Mahmoud Abbas, known for his hesitation and inability to make […]
Palestinians End Temper Tantrum, Resume Ties with Israel
The Palestinians have decided to renew the ties they broke with Israel last May, when Jerusalem announced its plans to extend its sovereignty to parts of the West Bank. Since that plan was not executed, and apparently will not be, the Palestinians – that is, the PA, not Hamas – are finally ready to resume […]
The E.U. Read the Palestinians the Riot Act, But Will Biden Come to Their Rescue?
As is well known, Mahmoud Abbas has for the past seven months refused to accept the taxes that Israel collects on Palestinian imports on behalf of the PA. This is the second time he has refused to accept the transfer of those taxes. The first time was when Israel insisted on deducting from the sum […]
Mahmoud Abbas Plans to Ask Biden to Move Embassy Back to Tel Aviv
Mahmoud Abbas is planning to ask Joe Biden to move the American embassy back to Tel Aviv from Jerusalem. The request has no chance of being granted; Biden has already said that while he would not have moved the Embassy himself, he will not now move it out of Jerusalem.. But Abbas figures that when […]
Palestinian Authority President Abbas joins chorus of leaders congratulating Biden, issues first demands
Already the Palestinian Authority, the Islamic Republic of Iran, and other jihadist thugs are making demands and compiling wish lists for a Biden administration, since they view him as a dhimmi. This does not bode well for Israel. “President Mahmoud Abbas is ready for immediate engagement when there is a partner and a serious process […]
‘Palestinians’ eager to start receiving American taxpayer money again in Biden administration
Seventy years of failed policies followed by four of actual progress toward peace in the Middle East, by ending aid to the “Palestinian” jihad and bypassing the jihadi intransigence of the “Palestinians.” A Biden/Harris presidency would be a full return to those failed policies, and a rollback of the progress that has been made. Get […]
PA Promises a Doomsday Scenario If It Doesn’t Get a State Right Now
The story is here: “Palestinians threaten Israel: ‘Either Palestine, or a fire for a generation,’” JNS, October 28, 2020: Claiming that the United States and Israel are planning to “redesign” the Middle East via “normalization” and the US peace plan, the Palestinian Authority is threatening “anarchy, violence and instability.” “Normalization” of ties with Israel by […]
Mahmoud Abbas Has Learned His Lesson, Tones Down Criticism of Sudan
When the United Arab Emirates and then Bahrain announced their normalization agreements with Israel, the PA was quick to denounce both as “betraying Jerusalem, Al-Aqsa Mosque, and the Palestinian issue.” The two countries were further accused of “stabbing the Palestinians in the back.” This did not have the desired effect. Both the UAE and Bahrain […]
The Trump Administration’s Geopolitical Hat Trick
Sudan has become the third Arab country to agree to normalize relations with Israel. The Palestinians are most unhappy: “Palestinians condemn ‘shameful’ Israel-Sudan accord,” by Khaled Abu Toameh and Celia Jean, Jerusalem Post, October 24, 2020: The Palestinian Authority said on Friday that it “condemns and rejects” the normalization of relations between Arab countries and Israel. […]
Archeological Finds In Israel Undermine the ‘Palestinian’ Narrative
As is well-known, Palestinian leaders like to backdate – using their vivid oriental imaginations – the presence of the “Palestinian people” in “Palestine.” Mahmoud Abbas has frequently declared that the Palestinians are direct descendants of the Canaanites, who lived in the Middle East some 4000 years ago. He has made even more extravagant claims recently […]
Palestinian Arabs are on a Collision Course with Arab States
The Palestinians have been so busy throwing tantrums, demanding special meetings of the Arab League, denouncing the UAE’s “betrayal” and Bahrain’s “treachery,” that they haven’t had time to sit down and analyze what went so wrong, and why they are no longer the center of Arab attention. That story is here. Less than a month […]
Pope’s New Encyclical to Praise Jihad Terror Supporter as Example of ‘Peace’ and ‘Fraternity’
My latest in PJ Media: Pope Francis’ new encyclical, Fratelli tutti: sulla fraternità e l’amicizia sociale (“All Brothers: On Fraternity and Social Friendship”) will be issued on October 3, the Vatican confirmed Saturday. According to Church Militant, the encyclical is “a sequel to his controversial Abu Dhabi pact with Grand Imam Ahmad al-Tayyeb last year, […]
Palestinians Enraged Over UAE Peace with Israel
Naturally, the news that the UAE has recognized Israel and will engage in “normalization” with the Jewish state has enraged the Palestinians. They do not want any Arab country to act to further its own interests in dealing with Israel; it is the Palestinians who must call the shots. The latest on Palestinian rage over […]
Israeli Court Upholds Right of Israel to Seize “Pay For Slay” Payments
As is well known, the Palestinian Authority rewards terrorists, if alive, and their families, if they are dead, by paying stipends to them for whatever murderous acts against Israelis those terrorists have manage to carry out. This “Pay-For-Slay” policy has outraged Israel, which in 2019 started to deduct the amounts the P.A. allocates to this […]
Palestinians Furious at Discovering They are No Longer the Center of the Universe
For decades the Palestinians found that their “cause’ – that is, the destruction of the state of Israel and its replacement by an Arab “Palestine” – kept them at the center of the Arab World’s attention, and the object of its support and sympathy. But no longer. Mahmoud Abbas has been horrified to discover that […]
Palestinian Authority enraged by lack of rage over “annexation,” urges jihad against Israel
The “Palestinians” and their allies have actually been waging jihad against Israel since 1948 and before that. Get the details and the full truth about this intractable conflict in The Palestinian Delusion. “PA dismayed by lack of support over annexation, urges ‘jihad’ against Israel: reports,” i24News, July 6, 2020: PA-affiliated TV channels air song urging […]
Another Tantrum from Mahmoud Abbas
Palestinian President-For-Life Mahmoud Abbas, who has shown his impressive business acumen by accumulating a fortune of $400 million — though his P.A. salary has never surpassed $72,000 a year — is now full of righteous fury. He is alarmed that the endlessly cruel Israelis are at it again. This time, they want to build an […]
Some Palestinians Enthusiastic For Annexation
The New York Times could not possibly ever see fit to print the following story, to be found at algemeiner.com: Palestinian Authority (PA) officials are warning of wave of violence in response to the possible annexation of parts of the West Bank by Israel, but at least a few Palestinians on the ground appear to […]
Muslim who glorified jihad murderers appointed Secretary of Fatah Movement in Canada
It is bad enough that there is a Fatah Movement in Canada at all, given the jihad activity of its parent group in the Palestinian Authority. The Canadian branch’s support for jihad violence is out in the open: “Nabil Nassar, who has repeatedly glorified terrorists on social media, was recently appointed Secretary” of the movement’s […]