As a Witness, Bedein Chronicles “Inconvenient Truths” of Palestinian Authroity
Genesis of the Palestinian Authority, by David Bedein. Edited by Bernhard Rosenberg. Behr Publishers, Edison, NJ. 2017
Over the past 30 years of covering the Israeli-PLO relations, David Bedein has witnessed many of its defining...
Hamas: Unity govt to be unveiled in days
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=698343
GAZA CITY (AFP) -- A new Palestinian "consensus government" to be named by the PLO and Hamas is to be finalized within days, a senior official in the Islamist movement said Sunday.
Bassem Naim, an...
Fatah Receives Longer-Range Rockets
Middle East Newsline, http://www.menewsline.com
The Fatah militia has received extended-range rockets for attacks on Israel.
Palestinian sources said the Fatah militia has acquired its first BM-21 Katyusha rockets since the 1982 war in Lebanon. They said...
Palestinian School Textbooks Bias: Schoolbooks Omit Israel on Maps and Glorify Martyrdom
The material in Palestinian school textbooks offers a unique perspective on the Palestinian attitude towards Israel. In many ways, the textbooks mirror the political conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. For example, maps...
WHAT HAPPENED TO GEORGE MITCHELL ?
http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=1146&sec=2&title=EDITORIAL:_WHAT_HAPPENED_TO_GEORGE_MITCHELL_
George Mitchell
Gershon Baskin
photo by Rhonda Spivak
The hills surrounding Beit Jalla in the West Bank
Photo by Rhonda Spivak
Location of the conference in Beit Jalla
Photo by Rhonda Spivak
George Mitchell resigned last week as Obama’s Special Envoy...
Abbas Steers Clear Of Condemning Attack
Following Monday's Palestinian bombing in a Tel Aviv restaurant which resulted in the deaths of nine people, the media was rampant with the news of a "clear condemnation of the bombing from Palestinian Authority...
Palestinian Authority Education: No Room for a Two-State Solution
By David Bedein
Research: Dr. Arnon Groiss
Palestinian Authority schoolbooks feature three fundamentals:
De-legitimization of Israel’s existence and the Jews’ very presence in the country, which includes denial of their history and the existence of any...
CANADA AND UNWRA: THE FALLOUT – WHAT HAS THE PALESTINIAN AND JORDANIAN...
Vic Toews, currently Canada’s Minister of Public Security visiting Jordan in January 2010. All photos courtesy of Minister Toews.
Minister Toews visiting Jordan, January 2010.
Minister Toews visiting Jordan, January 2010.
Minister Toews meeting in Ramallah with...
PA and Other Arab Reactions to the Gaza Crisis
http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/pa-and-other-arab-reactions-to-the-gaza-crisis
The most striking aspect of ongoing Arab reactions to the latest Hamas-Israeli clashes is an act of omission: the Palestinian Authority (PA) and President Mahmoud Abbas are not calling for Hamas to stop firing...
BLUNDER DOWN UNDER: WHY DID AUSTRALIA UP ITS DONATION UNRWA BY 450%?
The May 28th 2012decision of the Australian government to increase its allocation to the United Nations Relief and Works agency, UNRWA, the agency that serves Palestinian Refugees and their descendants - by 450% -...