August 26, 2014
3:18 pm

Former Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad, seen here when still in office, heads a cabinet meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah April 16, 2013. (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/FLASH90)

PA security questions employees of Abbas rival

Two workers for charity led by former prime minister Salam Fayyad grilled amid crackdown after coup scare

By Stuart Winer

August 5, 2014
10:24 pm

A masked Palestinian militant from the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, an armed wing of President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement, holds up a weapon while speaking to the media at Balata refugee camp near Nablus, February 2008. (photo credit: Wagdi Ashtiyeh/Flash90)

Fatah official threatens settlers with death

Jamal Muheisen says Palestinian merchants have two weeks to rid their shops of Israeli products; Fatah decries Hamas harassment in Gaza

By Elhanan Miller

June 9, 2014
1:41 pm

2014 J Street national summit at Temple Emanu-El in San Francisco (Marc Hors/J Street)

At the J Street national summit, wondering what’s next

BDS is still a ‘red line,’ says J Street head Jeremy Ben-Ami, who claims his group is ‘squarely in the middle of the conversation’

By Arno Rosenfeld

January 12, 2014
11:06 pm

Then opposition leader Ariel Sharon seen at the Mugrabi Gate en route to the Temple Mount, on 28 September 2000. Sharon visited with an escort of over 1,000 police officers. The Second Intifada erupted soon after. (photo credit: Flash90)

Sharon was reviled by Arabs, but that’s not the whole story

To his death, he was widely hated as a war criminal, but some who came into direct contact with him conceived a certain grudging appreciation

By Avi Issacharoff

November 1, 2013
4:56 pm

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, flanked by newly released Palestinian prisoners, greets the crowd in Ramallah, on October 30, 2013 (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Might those peace talks actually be getting somewhere?

Bolstered party by the prisoner releases, word is that Mahmoud Abbas might be showing flexibility in the ongoing negotiations

By Avi Issacharoff

October 12, 2013
3:16 pm

PA President Mahmoud Abbas, September 1, 2013 (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Abbas blames Israel for Palestinian fiscal crisis

In interview on PA television, Palestinian leader says government won’t be able to pay employees’ salaries next month

By Ilan Ben Zion

September 30, 2013
2:23 am

Tzachi Hanegbi (right) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Likud MK implies Netanyahu will compromise on Jerusalem

Palestinian right of return is the the only major issue preventing a peace deal, Tzachi Hanegbi tells J Street Conference

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

August 2, 2013
4:22 pm

Palestininian women walk by an Israeli man on the beach in Tel Aviv. (photo credit: Serge Attal/Flash90)

On Ramadan, seeing Israel for the first time

Jubilation and jealousy intermingle as an eased security policy enables hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to discover the country next door, and the sea

By Elhanan Miller

June 23, 2013
11:40 am

Rami Hamdallah (photo credit: YouTube Screenshot)

Abbas accepts resignation of Palestinian PM

Rami Hamdallah will leave his post after less than two weeks as prime minister

June 21, 2013
9:43 pm

‘Palestinian PM withdraws resignation a day after quitting’

Senior PA official says Abbas made intensive efforts to persuade Hamdallah to remain in office

By Elhanan Miller and Ron Friedman

June 21, 2013
10:05 am

Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger (photo credit: Marko/Flash90)

Good and bad police work

Authorities detain chief rabbi on charges of bribery and fraud; state witness escapes safe house; and Barbra Streisand performs

By Aaron Kalman

June 21, 2013
12:38 am

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah (photo credit: An-Najah University)

So long Fayyadism, so long Palestinian Authority?

From the web The new Palestinian PM’s resignation is just the latest sign of trouble amid an aging old guard around Abbas, the Christian Science Monitor reports

June 20, 2013
5:57 pm

Two weeks after appointment, Palestinian PM resigns

Rami Hamdallah bemoans limited authority; President Mahmoud Abbas has released no comment

By Elhanan Miller

June 16, 2013
7:24 pm

Israeli Finance Minister Yair Lapid, right, with Palestinian counterpart Shukri Bishara in Jerusalem, June 16, 2013 (photo credit: Anat Hamami/Finance Ministry)

Israel and PA agree to reestablish economic ties

Cooperation was suspended in November after Palestinian statehood bid at the UN

By Joshua Davidovich and Asher Zeiger

June 16, 2013
6:19 am

Finance Minister Yair Lapid speaking with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset, May 1, 2013. (Photo credit: Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Lapid hoping to reopen economic ties with Palestinians

Finance minister to meet new PA counterpart in Jerusalem, says bilateral trade ties have ‘major importance’

By Joshua Davidovich

Topic: Salam Fayyad

PA security questions employees of Abbas rival

Two workers for charity led by former prime minister Salam Fayyad grilled amid crackdown after coup scare

Fatah official threatens settlers with death

Jamal Muheisen says Palestinian merchants have two weeks to rid their shops of Israeli products; Fatah decries Hamas harassment in Gaza

At the J Street national summit, wondering what’s next

BDS is still a ‘red line,’ says J Street head Jeremy Ben-Ami, who claims his group is ‘squarely in the middle of the conversation’

Sharon was reviled by Arabs, but that’s not the whole story

To his death, he was widely hated as a war criminal, but some who came into direct contact with him conceived a certain grudging appreciation

Might those peace talks actually be getting somewhere?

Bolstered party by the prisoner releases, word is that Mahmoud Abbas might be showing flexibility in the ongoing negotiations

Abbas blames Israel for Palestinian fiscal crisis

In interview on PA television, Palestinian leader says government won’t be able to pay employees’ salaries next month

Likud MK implies Netanyahu will compromise on Jerusalem

Palestinian right of return is the the only major issue preventing a peace deal, Tzachi Hanegbi tells J Street Conference

On Ramadan, seeing Israel for the first time

Jubilation and jealousy intermingle as an eased security policy enables hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to discover the country next door, and the sea

Abbas accepts resignation of Palestinian PM

Rami Hamdallah will leave his post after less than two weeks as prime minister

‘Palestinian PM withdraws resignation a day after quitting’

Senior PA official says Abbas made intensive efforts to persuade Hamdallah to remain in office

Good and bad police work

Authorities detain chief rabbi on charges of bribery and fraud; state witness escapes safe house; and Barbra Streisand performs

So long Fayyadism, so long Palestinian Authority?

From the web The new Palestinian PM’s resignation is just the latest sign of trouble amid an aging old guard around Abbas, the Christian Science Monitor reports

Two weeks after appointment, Palestinian PM resigns

Rami Hamdallah bemoans limited authority; President Mahmoud Abbas has released no comment

Israel and PA agree to reestablish economic ties

Cooperation was suspended in November after Palestinian statehood bid at the UN

Lapid hoping to reopen economic ties with Palestinians

Finance minister to meet new PA counterpart in Jerusalem, says bilateral trade ties have ‘major importance’

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