Palestinian Authority

Examination: Palestinian fifth and tenth-grade textbooks for the 2004-2005 school year (still in use in 2013) http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/en/article/18906 Full PA curriculum, implemented in 2007.: http://www.ajc.org/site/apps/nlnet/content3.aspx?c=7oJILSPwFfJSG&b=8449859&ct=12479997 Consolidation: Critiques of Wexler Commission Middle East School Book Study http://israelbehindthenews.com/bin/content.cgi?ID=5434&q=1 EVALUATION Of the Israeli/Palestinian Schoolbook...

On Monday night, Israel's Foreign Minister Tzippy Livni met with the Machmud Abbas, also known as Abu Mazen. Abbas has two identities, both of which he inherited from his mentor, Yassir Arafat - as...

To the outside observer, the internal schism in Israel's ruling Likud political party might seem to be quite confusing. After all, the three pretenders for party leadership - current Israeli Prime Miinister Ariel Sharon, former...

The realignment committee set up to evaluate the idea of a unilateral withdrawal from most of the West Bank presented senior political officials with its report in which they raised legal, security and economic...

The Palestinian Authority (PA) expressed great satisfaction with the decision of Fatou Bensouda, the ICC Prosecutor, that there is a basis for opening an investigation of the "war crimes" Israel allegedly commits in "Palestine."...

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for the Palestinian refugees of the 1948 war and their descendants provides educational services to school children of this population in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, the West Bank,...

This week, a senior foreign diplomat provided Israel Resource News Agency with the finalized Arabic version of the Palestinian State Constitution which has been framed by the official constitutional committee of the Palestinian National...

Israel's government last week provided American-made weapons, including hundreds of M-16 automatic machine guns, to the Fatah organization in Gaza. It did so despite the fact that the military wing of Fatah, the Al...

Editor's note:Welcome to the third edition of "Inside the PA," a weekly on-line publication designed to provide an open-source and yet valuable insight into the workings of the Palestinian Authority. We will review important...

Carob Juice Vendor outside of Damascus Gate, Old City of Jerusaelm. Photo by Rhonda Spivak. East Jerusalemite serving food at Jafar Sweets, Old City of Jerusalem. Photo by Rhonda Spivak. East Jerusalemite selling carab juice in...