Text of Letter Handed to Abbas by Congressman Sherman

May 25, 2005 For Hand Delivery in Person His Excellency Mahmoud Abbas President Palestinian Authority Your Excellency: I am writing to express my deep concern regarding the new Palestinian textbooks which the PA has introduced to several grades of Palestinian...

How Can the White House Describe Arafat’s Speech as “Positive”?

The White House today said that Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat's speech today in Ramallah was "positive". In the speech Arafat set the rules for the continuing war against Israel -"We have announced in the...

Removing the PLO Occupation of Bethlehem

Bethlehem, Residents of this biblical city are expressing relief at the exile to Cyprus last week of 13 hard-core Palestinian militants, who they said had imposed a two-year reign of terror that included rape,...

No Yellow Brick Road for Palestinian UN Bid

Will the recognition and creation of a Palestinian state by the United Nations Security Council magically end Mideast unrest? Can the UN fulfill the role of the Wizard of Oz and help ensure that...

The Palestinian Proletariat

British Prime Minister David Cameron recently called Gaza a “prison camp.” Former President Jimmy Carter has called it a “cage.” At first glance, these characterizations of the Hamas-ruled ­province seem like rhetorical excesses designed...

This Week in The P.A. January 25th, 2006

Editor's note: Welcome to the sixth 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...

RAMALLAH AND BERLIN: REFLECTIONS ON GERMANY’S VOTE AT THE UN RE: THE PA STATEHOOD...

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=3171&sec=1&title=RAMALLAH_AND_BERLIN:__REFLECTIONS_ON_GERMANY%27S_VOTE_AT_THE_UN__RE:_THE_PA_STATEHOOD_BID There are a lot of reasons I can think of why Germany ought to have voted "no" in response to the Palestinian unilateral bid for statehood at the UN, one which Mahmoud Abbas declared...

Official PA radio news – the PBC Voice of Palestine – Oct 22

SUMMARY The Voice of Palestine continued its policy of leading its news shows with the details of the burial of "martyrs" and the listing and counting of the injured. VOP continues to go into detail...

Points for Presentation: Israel, Jews and Peace In the Palestinian Authority Schoolbooks and Teachers’...

February 2020 Introduction Schoolbooks indicate the values which a society wishes to inculcate in the minds of its younger generation. When they are published by the government, they indicate its long-run intentions. Hence the importance...

The other side speaks out

Together with the euphoria that many Israelis feel about the return home of Gilad Shalit, victims of terror are dealing differently. Granted, there have been a few who came out in support of the...