Last month, the Palestinian leadership issued a similar response to the normalization agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates. Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki. (photo credit: REUTERS/MOHAMED ABD EL GHANY) The Palestinian Authority leadership on Friday strongly condemned and rejected Bahrain’s decision to establish relations with Israel, calling it a “betrayal of Jerusalem, al-Aqsa Mosque…
ARTICLE SUMMARY: Amid Benjamin Netanyahu’s election victory and their deeply entrenched divisions, the Palestinians seem to have little chance to stand firm in the face of Israeli plans to annex parts of the West Bank. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun Labourers work at a construction site in the Israeli settlement of Ramot in an area of the…
If Israel is chosen to fill a seat in the United Nations Security Council it would be a political farce and a scandal, Ahmad Majdalani, member of the PLO Executive Committee, said on Saturday, according to Palestinian news agency WAFA. Very little has been said in several months about this issue, since Israel’s UN envoy…