UNRWA is the very well-funded agency – it receives about $1.6 billion a year — that is devoted to the care and feeding of the Palestinian refugees, who are thus provided with a U.N. agency all their own, while all other refugees in the world, more than 100 million of them — are lumped together […]
Palestinians Alarmed About Biden Visit
On his upcoming visit to the Middle East, which will take place from July 13-16, President Biden will make three stops – in Jerusalem, to meet with Acting Prime Minister Yair Lapid; in Ramallah (or possibly Bethlehem), to meet with Mahmoud Abbas; and in Jeddah, where Biden will participate in a summit of the Gulf […]
Palestinians Expect Little From Biden’s Visit
Save for Mahmoud Abbas himself, who clings to the notion that Biden will fulfill his promises, made during the campaign, to reopen the “consulate to the Palestinians” in Jerusalem and to reopen as well the PLO office in Washington – both of which Trump had closed – most Palestinians expect little from Biden’s upcoming visit. […]
Saudis Crow Over Biden Coming Hat-In-Hand to Riyadh
What was once planned as a quick visit to Israel-and-the-Palestinians by President Biden has become a three-way affair, with Saudi Arabia not only added to the itinerary, but has become the main event, the meeting in Riyadh with the Saudi Crown Prince will overshadow his lightning visits to Jerusalem and Bethlehem. In Israel, Biden will […]
Abbas’ Fatah party praises Muslim hitting a religious Jew: ‘May your hands be blessed, hero’
Biden’s handlers will send the “Palestinians” a few billion, and then they’ll want peace. Won’t they? “Fatah applauds Arab hitting religious Jew: ‘May your hands be blessed, hero,’” by Nan Jacques Zilberdik, Palestinian Media Watch, June 15, 2022: Abbas’ Fatah party posted a video on Facebook of an Arab hitting a religious Jew in Jerusalem. […]
EU Capitulates, Will Open Its Pockets to the Palestinians ‘Without Conditions’
Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the European Commission, on July 14 tweeted her pious hopes for the EU-Israel relationship: “EU and Israel are bound to be friends and allies. Because the history of Europe is the history of the Jewish people. Our democracy flourishes if Jewish life flourishes, too. I am committed to […]
PA Accuses Hamas of Trying to Take Over the West Bank
Ever since 2007, and the bloody takeover of Gaza by Hamas, which ended in the death of 700 Fatah members and the expulsion of thousands more, Hamas and the PA (in which Fatah is the ruling faction) have been at each others’ throats. Now the PA has accused Hamas of planning to seize control of […]
Mahmoud Abbas Wants to ‘Turn the Screws’ on the U.S.
The Palestinian Authority’s president, Mahmoud Abbas, wants to “pressure” the American government to do his bidding before Biden visits the Middle East on a trip scheduled for this July. A report on the rich fantasy life of Abbas is here: “Feeding Palestinian delusions,” by Mitchell Bard, JNS.org, June 8, 2022: “Palestinian Leadership Plans to Increase Pressure on […]
Palestinian teen sought death as a ‘martyr,’ yet PA claims he was ‘executed’ by Israel
The Palestinian Authority (PA) conditions children to fight the jihad against Israelis, presented as a “resistance.” In so doing, they are coaching children to be abnormal, suicidal murderers. And the world at large is not only silent, but complicit. “Shocking farewell-will left by Palestinian teen seeking death as a Martyr,” by Itamar Marcus and Nan […]
Mahmoud Abbas Hosts American Delegation In Ramallah
Joe Biden will be visiting the Middle East this July, but what he hopes this will accomplish — other than allowing him to be seen to be doing something about the Middle East other than appeasing Iran in Vienna – is unclear. He will no doubt be repeating the Bidenites’ new mantra, that both Israelis and Palestinians […]