EU Documents Repeat False NGO Claims and Increase Tension

Leaked documents on Arab-Israeli conflict promote misinformation from NGO grantees Background Since 2010, six documents from the offices of EU representatives in Israel and the Palestinian Authority - dealing with the central, complex, and sensitive issues...

The Levy Report: Reinvigorating the Discussion of Israel’s Rights in the West Bank

http://www.biu.ac.il/SOC/besa/docs/perspectives176.pdf EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The Commission to Examine the Status of Building in Judea and Samaria (the "Levy report") has drawn a flurry of overwrought criticism due to its inclusion of a section concerning the lawfulness...

PA Uses U.S.-Trained Forces Against Protesters

www.menewsline.com The Palestinian Authority has been using U.S.-trained and equipped security forces to disperse protests in the West Bank. Arab Human rights activists said PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has been using elite forces trained by Washington...

International Recognition of a Unilaterally Declared Palestinian State: Legal and Policy Dilemmas

http://www.jcpa.org/art/becker2.htm Representatives of the PLO, and of the Palestinian Interim Self-Government Authority established pursuant to the Interim Agreement, have repeatedly threatened to unilaterally declare an independent Palestinian state.1 Indeed, following the conclusion of the Camp...

Video: The Culture of Peace and Incitement in the PA Index – 2 December...

http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=59273 For Video: http://youtu.be/j6rI4mVb_FA As Power Point http://www.pmo.gov.il/English/MediaCenter/Spokesman/Documents/hasataENG0212112.ppt Video: The Culture of Peace and Incitement in the PA Index - 2 December 2012 Special Briefing on Incitement in the Palestinian Authority The Prime Minister's Office - Jerusalem 2 December 2012 Pursuant to...

Palestine’s strangely stubborn state of mind

http://www.thecommentator.com/article/2229/palestine_s_strangely_stubborn_state_of_mind The UN vote upgrading the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) to a non-member state with observer status has done nothing to move the cause of Palestinian statehood forward. Instead, it repeats the old adage of...

What Is Behind Salam Fayyad’s Call for “Economic Intifada”?

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3508/economic-intifada Salam Fayyad, the prime minister of the Palestinian Authority, this week called for an economic intifada against Israel. Fayyad, whose government is facing a severe financial crisis, wants Palestinians to boycott all Israeli goods in...

Popular Committees Activists in Judea and Samaria Plan a New Wave of Popular Resistance...

Overview 1. Statements made recently by prominent figures in the popular committees against the fence and settlements reflect the organization's intention for a new wave of defiant anti-Israeli activities. They are as part of the...

Muslim Persecution of Christians: June, 2013

http://www.meforum.org/3609/muslim-persecution-of-christians-june-2013 The degradation of Christian women living in the Islamic world continued in the month of June. In Syria, after the al-Qaeda linked rebel group conquered Qusair, a city of the governate of Homs, 15-year-old...

RESPONDING TO JTA FEATURE ON PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY INCITEMENT

The Jewish Telegraphic Agency, the JTA, ran a feature last week which related to the issue of incitement which emanates from the media outlets of The Palestinian Authority The article ran like this in the...