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Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood Have Their Sights on the West Bank and Jordan

Hamas directly threatened Fatah that it will take over the West Bank. Senior Hamas official Mahmoud al-Zahar declared on December 10, “Just as we...

Weekly Commentary: No Future as Security Burden

Here’s the paradox: If we made every possible concession to the Palestinians so that a sovereign Palestinian state actually came into being we would ultimately...

Israel Reports ISIL In W. Bank

Israel's intelligence community has determined that Islamic State of Iraq and Levant was operating in the West Bank. The intelligence community has assessed that ISIL...

Hamas Holds Military Exercise

Hamas has concluded a major military exercise meant to prepare for another war against Israel. The exercise took place on Dec. 23 by the National...

What the Palestinian Authority Did Not Tell the UN Security Council

By Khaled Abu Toameh What the Palestinians did not tell the Security Council is that the state they seek to establish is one that does...

Amazing that UNRWA can say this with a straight face

The most recent report of the Commissioner-General of UNRWA to the UN, covering 2013, includes this head-scratcher of a line: "The situation also affected the...

Brazil’s admission to the Advisory Commission of UNRWA

The United Nations General Assembly has decided, by Resolution 69/86, to admit Brazil as a member of the Advisory Commission of the United Nations...

Review of the book “Bullets of Palestine”

“Howard Kaplan is probably without peer in his grasp of the delicate and explosive relationship between the Israelis and the Palestinians. Bullets of Palestine...

How the State Department Annually Perpetuates Palestinian Misery

Originally published under the title "America's Palestine Refugee Policy Is Insane." This exercise in repetition occurred in the wake of a war that again exposed...

UNRWA Expands Refugee Status To Pets, Furniture

Jerusalem, December 19 – The United Nations agency tasked with caring for the descendants of Arab refugees from the 1948 war over Israel’s creation...