Fatah Agrees with Hamas: Palestinian State Will War with Israel
If anyone doubted whether there was real substance to the Hamas-Fatah “unity government,” Mahmoud Abbas’ New York Times op-ed provides the proverbial teachable moment. After statehood, he dismisses...
View ArticleThe Gilad Shalit Test
The Fatah-Hamas “reconciliation” places the responsibility for kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Shalit directly and openly on the shoulders of the merged PA governing body since he would become an official...
View ArticleInauspicious Time to Announce Changes to Longstanding U.S. Policy
The president is surely aware that there is little prospect at the moment for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, in part because of the resentments built up over the last two years, in part because of...
View ArticleFatah Has Never Recognized Israel and Will Never Do So
Fatah has never recognized Israel’s right to exist and will never do so, Azzam al-Ahmed, a member of the Fatah Central Committee who is closely associated with PA President Mahmoud Abbas, told the...
View ArticleAiding Friends and Foes in Palestine
The reconciliation agreement between Fatah and Hamas raises a number of difficult issues for the U.S., including whether Washington can lawfully continue to provide aid to the Palestinian Authority if...
View ArticleTwo Months On, Palestinian Unity Proves Elusive
Two months after announcing a surprise reconciliation deal to end years of feuding, rival Palestinian groups Hamas and Fatah remain unable to implement their accord. “I did not believe that this...
View ArticleFatah Activist Sees Third Intifada as Unlikely, But…
Taisir Nasrallah, of Balata, was one of the Fatah youth leaders in the Nablus area during the first intifada. He does not believe a third intifada is likely in the near future. In the second intifada –...
View ArticleWhile Palestinians Talk of Protest, Little Sign of Action
Calls for Palestinian protests to back a diplomatic push for statehood at the UN next month have put Israel on guard. Yet to many, a sustained Intifada, or uprising, appears unlikely. To ordinary...
View ArticleFatah Official: U.S. Is #1 Palestinian Enemy
The U.S. is the number one enemy of the Palestinians because it supports Israeli “oppression,” Tawfik Tirawi, a senior member of the Fatah Central Committee, said on Sunday. Tirawi, former commander of...
View ArticleWhat Awaits Muna in Gaza?
Female terrorist Amana Muna from Fatah was the mastermind behind the murder of Israeli teenager Ofir Rahum. As part of a project I conducted in Israeli prisons, I held lengthy conversations with her....
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