A Critique: Jewish Telegraphic Agency coverage of Fatah Congress in Bethlehem

The Fatah Congress, launched on Tuesday in Bethlehem, focused on Fatah's determination to continue the armed struggle against the state and people of Israel. However, Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) Correspondent Dina Kraft waits until graph...

Israel Gov’t Accuses Rights Groups Of Fraud

Jerusalem, Israel - Over the past few weeks, the Israeli government has gone on the offensive against human rights groups who have publicized allegations against Israel for many months, without any concerted Israeli response. One...

Israel Renews Construction Supply Sale To Gaza

An area where Israel continues to cope with is the world wide campaign against Israel’s restrictions of potentially lethal exports into Gaza. Since the Hamas terror takeover of Gaza in June 2007, Israel did halt...

Historic Fatah Conference To Convene In Bethlehem

Jerusalem, Israel - For the first time in more than 20 years, Fatah (Arabic for “conquest”), the dominant ruling power of the Palestinian Authority, will gather next week for a conference in Bethlehem, with...

FATAH CONGRESS: WE WILL NOT REMOVE THE ARMED STRUGGLE FROM PLATFORM

The Fatah congress will not remove the clause supporting armed struggle from its platform, and will add a clause declaring that the movement does not, and will never, recognize Israel as a Jewish state. The new platform,...

FATAH CONGRESS: NO RECOGNITION OF ISRAEL AS JEWISH STATE

On Tuesday Fatah will hold its sixth congress in Bethlehem, at which point a draft party platform will be put to the vote. That draft explicitly notes that Israel must not be recognized as a Jewish...

Senior Fatah Offiicial: Seek Alliance with Iran

www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=216259 Jerusalem - Ma'an - The time has come for Fatah, Palestine's largest political party, to seek a strategic alliance with Iran, the movement's Jerusalem affairs liaison Hatim Abdul Qader told Ma'an on Saturday. In a statement, Abdul...

Crossing red lines: NIF grantees call for divestment, rally behind Hamas supporters, call for...

The New Israel Fund most recently told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that it would never cross “four red lines”: http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2009/07/24/1006776/new-israel-funds-red-lines • Engaging in racist behavior. • Demonizing any particular group. • Using or advocating violence as a means...

Saudi Initiative – based on flooding Israel with Arab refugees from 1948 – along...

Saudi Initiative - based on flooding Israel with Arab refugees from 1948 - along with their descendents This week, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu praised the nation of Bahrain for endorsing the Saudi Peace Initiative, also...