What Would a Hamas-Fatah Agreement Mean?

http://blogs.cfr.org/abrams/2011/12/28/what-would-a-hamas-fatah-agreement-mean/ There are repeated efforts to forge a unity agreement of some sort between Hamas and Fatah, leading to a new “unity government” for the Palestinian Authority. Such a coalition was briefly in force in...

EU reaction to Palestinian unity agreement contradicts own policy

http://missingpeace.eu/en/2012/02/eu-reaction-to-palestinian-unity-agreement-contradicts-own-policy/ Last Monday the Palestinian Authority and Hamas signed a new reconciliation agreement in Doha, the capital of Qatar. The Israeli government immediately condemned the move. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told PA president Mahmoud Abbas...

Fatah activists in Ramallah denounced the visit by Israeli physicians as a form of...

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=2207&sec=3&title= Fatah_activists_in_Ramallah_denounced_the_visit_by_Israeli_physicians_as_a_form_of__normalization The fact that thousands of Palestinian patients receive medical treatment in Israeli hospitals each year did not stop Palestinians from voicing opposition to a visit by Israeli physicians to Ramallah last week. The Israeli physicians...

Khaled Abu Toameh: How Journalists Allowed the Palestinian Authority to Fool Them

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=2497&sec=2&title=Khaled_Abu_Toameh:_How_Journalists_Allowed_the_Palestinian_Authority_to_Fool_Them The Palestinian Authority has been boasting over the past four years of its success in restoring law and order to the West Bank city of Jenin. Journalists from all around the world were invited to...

‘Pro-Israel, Pro-Peace’ J Street backs congressmen who do not support Israel

http://freebeacon.com/the-anti-israel-lobby/ The self-described “pro-Israel, pro-peace” liberal advocacy group J Street is soliciting funds for congressional candidates who are openly hostile to Israel while simultaneously targeting for defeat explicitly pro-Israel lawmakers who do not agree with...

Carr, Danby at odds over Palestinian aid

http://www.jewishnews.net.au/carr-danby-at-odds-over-palestinian-aid/26332 FOREIGN Minister Bob Carr’s announcement that Australia will boost aid to a controversial United Nations organisation for Palestinian refugees has raised the ire of Labor Party colleague and chairman of the Parliamentary Joint Committee...

State of the Union Address on Foreign Policy: Careful Phrasing Conceals Disasters

http://rubinreports.blogspot.co.il/2013/02/state-of-union-address-on-foreign.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+Rubinreports+(RubinReports) While the State of the Union message was overwhelmingly domestically oriented, the foreign policy sections were most interesting. I’ll review them here. The president began in the same neo-patriotic mode used in the second inaugural...

Analysis: Did Canada Close its Embassy Down in Iran to Protect Canadian Diplomats in...

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=2864&sec=2&title=Analysis: _Did_Canada_Close_its_Embassy_Down_in_Iran_to_Protect_Canadian_Diplomats_ in_event_of_an_Israeli_strike One theory of why Canada now decided to close its Embassy down in Tehran is that it wants its diplomats out of the country in the event of an Israeli military strike, which may...

Converging Toward Hamas

http://www.jewishpolicycenter.org/3764/converging-toward-hamas There are many points of disagreement between Fatah and Hamas; so many that they fought an ugly civil war in 2007, leaving Hamas in control of Gaza and Fatah in control of the West...

The Palestinian Authority’s Inconvenient Truths

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3526/palestinian-authority-inconvenient-truths The truth sometimes hurts; that is why the Palestinian Authority has been working hard to prevent the outside world from hearing about many occurrences that reflect negatively on its leaders or people. In recent years,...