While the Israeli cabinet authorized a deduction of nearly $140 million from the P.A. due to its longstanding policy of paying monthly stipends to convicted terrorists and their families, Abbas remains committed to the reprehensible practice.
Since the 1930s, the Palestinian track record has highlighted close ties with the enemies and adversaries of the US and the Free World. How would a Palestinian state affect US security?
Seemingly unobjectionable support for the now dead-in-the-water peace process has the effect of obscuring the truth about Israel’s supposed partners for peace.
Reuters, a major international news agency, falsely blamed Israel for water supply issues in a Bethlehem-area Palestinian village in an article published earlier this week, according to media watchdog HonestReporting.
The UK cut funding for War on Want, which apparently aims not to correct any alleged mistreatment of Arabs in Judea, Samaria and Gaza, but to destroy Israel.
The EU is claiming diplomatic immunity to avoid prosecution in Israel over illegal building for Palestinians in Judea and Samaria with foreign taxpayer funds.
A source close to Education Minister and security cabinet member Naftali Bennett slammed the proposal to outsource the security of Israeli citizens to the PA.
Two cabinet ministers from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party shrugged off a Palestinian Authority threat to cease all security cooperation with Israel.
Several perpetrators of terror attacks against Israelis in the current wave of violence were members of the Palestinian Security Services, who have access to weapons and combat training.
Regavim, an NGO that monitors unlawful Arab building in Israel, discovered an illegal road built by the Palestinian Authority and funded by the European Union.
"We see ourselves not as individuals, but on a mission connecting young people to their Jewish roots," says Rabbi Simcha Hochbaum, who educates the public about the significance of the Jewish city of Hebron.