Palestinian Authority

Private architecturally designed home being built in Ramallah. photo by Rhonda Spivak Abu Alla (Ahmed Qurai) and Tzipi Livni of Kadima. photo by Rhonda Spivak New Coffee shop in Ramallah. photo by Rhonda Spivak Palestinian Authority police...

The U.S. announcement inviting Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) for direct talks shows quite clearly, though unintentionally, why the talks will fail. Special Envoy George Mitchell explains: "We are all well aware that there remains...

(Israelnationalnews.com) The Palestinian Authority continues to incite young schoolchildren to armed struggle against Israel in its textbooks - textbooks that are used by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) to teach incitement...

When the Obama administration banned the terms Islamic extremism and jihad from US national security documents back on April 7, 2010, the United States aired out a new approach to the war against terror....

The Palestinian Authority is under heavy international pressure, mostly American, aimed at facilitating the transition from proximity talks to direct negotiations with Israel. The written message recently sent by President Obama to Palestinian Chairman Mahmud...

http://www.gloria-center.org/gloria/2010/08/passionate-debate-over-peace-process-nothing-to-do-with-reality There is a great deal of heat and passion about the difference between "left" and "right" views in Israel. Yet these gaps, at least during this era, are far less significant than people think....

August 4, 2010 http://www.gloria-center.org/blog/2010/08/todays-media-bias-against-israel Along Israel's border with Lebanon, east of Metulla, some bushes were pushing in on the border fence. The fence is set in slightly from the border precisely so that Israeli soldiers can...

A specter is haunting the prospective Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations-the specter of the Nakba. The literal meaning of the Arabic word is “disaster”; but in its current, expansive usage, it connotes a historical catastrophe inflicted...

Israeli security forces show great suspicion toward the Palestinian security apparatus in the West Bank despite the fact that they battle Hamas and were trained by the U.S. General Dayton. Israel assesses that a scenario of another...

A report by a U.S. government watchdog has found that the Israeli government's conduct in recent years - including delaying the transfer to Palestinian security forces of AK-47 rifles, radios, vehicles and uniforms -...