Emergency crew responding on scene of accident find themselves the target of violent mob An emergency medical crew narrowly escaped being lynched this week while responding on the scene of an injurious car accident near Jerusalem, Yedioth Ahronoth reported Friday. The fateful call came on Tuesday; a car carrying a Continue Reading »

Netanyahu’s letter to Abbas earlier this week included the first ever pledge by the PM, in an official document, to establish a Palestinian state in line with the two-state solution. The national unity government has created a new opportunity to move the peace process ahead, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wrote Continue Reading »

It was a year ago this month that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas turned his back on the U.S.-sponsored “peace process” with Israel and embarked on a radically different strategy for achieving Palestinian statehood. It’s time for a reckoning. Abbas’s step one was the surprise signing of an agreement in Cairo Continue Reading »

Discord apparently erupted after Fayyad refused to deliver a letter from Abbas to Netanyahu listing Palestinian demands. Communication channels between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad are completely cut off, Al Quds Al Arabi reported on Sunday in London. According to the report, the two top Palestinian Continue Reading »

Danny Ayalon also rejects any compromise with Iran on enrichment Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon said the last-minute downgrading of a Palestinian delegation that visited the prime minister in Jerusalem on Tuesday can be seen as a “political snub” that made a “mockery” of the international community. “Diplomatically, you could Continue Reading »

Mahmoud Abbas says US may suggest new plan for talks Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad were scheduled to meet Tuesday afternoon to exchange official letters, setting out the sides’ respective positions and requirements for a resumption of negotiations. The meeting was announced last week, Continue Reading »

PA president vows to seek solution via international law if Israel is not forthcoming In a letter to be delivered to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in several days, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is demanding that Israel accept the establishment of a Palestinian state “on the 1967 borders” with possible Continue Reading »

PA says negotiations will ‘waste time’ unless accompanied by settlement freeze The Palestinians have spurned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s latest invitation to resume peace talks, insisting Israel freeze settlement construction first. Netanyahu on Wednesday proposed to start direct talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, without any preconditions. The call followed Continue Reading »

Palestinian source claims delegation led by Prime Minister Fayyad to meet with Netanyahu next week. Delegation to present PM with missive regarding peace process Palestinian sources said on Wednesday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to meet with Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad next week following a long standstill Continue Reading »

Palestinian PM says extremists must stop pretending to stand up for Palestinian children’s rights in response to Toulouse attack Extremists must stop using the Palestinian cause to justify their acts of violence, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said on Wednesday after a deadly attack on a French Jewish school. “It Continue Reading »