A likely successor to 86-year-old Mahmoud Abbas, now in the seventeenth year of his four-year term as President of the Palestinian Authority, Mohammed Shtayyeh has been Prime Minister of the P.A. since 2019. The media, always eager to find Palestinian “moderates,” have painted Shtayyeh as such a figure. Stephen Flatow reports on the real Mohammed […]
Israel Tries to Lighten Burden of Palestinians In Gaza and the West Bank, Receives Only Contumely In Return
At the end of August and beginning of September, Israel did what it could to ease the lives of Palestinians both in Gaza and in the PA-run territories in the West Bank. First, it expanded the Gaza Strip’s fishing zone to 15 nautical miles – the most since 2007. Then Israel announced that many […]
PA Prime Minister Shtayyeh Defends ‘Pay-For-Slay’ Policy
Mohammed Shtayyeh offers a collection of lies – “war is deceit,” after all – about the PA’s Pay-For-Slay policy, that Maurice Hirsch refutes here: “Damn Lies and the Palestinian Authority’s ‘Pay-for-Slay’ Policy,” JNS, November 20, 2020: Richard Engel of the Council on Foreign Relations, a prestigious and influential think tank, held an exclusive webinar on […]
Palestinian Authority Prime Minister condemns Pompeo’s planned visit to ‘settlement’ as ‘dangerous precedent’
The peace process is a delusion. The Palestinian leadership is a jihadist operation which seeks a one-state solution, that is, a Palestinian state in which no Jews live. Anything that offends jihadists is regarded as an unacceptable provocation. The Palestinian National Charter states: Israel is a constant source of threat vis-a-vis peace in the Middle […]
Palestinian Authority PM accuses Israeli troops of deliberately spreading coronavirus among “Palestinians”
No surprise. This was inevitable. Mohammed Shtayyeh’s paranoia is rooted in the Qur’an. The Qur’an depicts the Jews as inveterately evil and bent on destroying the well-being of the Muslims. They are the strongest of all people in enmity toward the Muslims (5:82); they fabricate things and falsely ascribe them to Allah (2:79; 3:75, 3:181); […]