Palestinians

Young Palestinians Frustrated With Hamas And Fatah

Hamas leader Khaled Meshal, left, with PA President Mahmoud Abbas.

The rival factions announce a new agreement, but the public is skeptical.

02/08/2012
Joshua Mitnick
Israel Correspondent

Tel Aviv — When the rival Palestinian factions, Hamas and Fatah, first signed a reconciliation agreement last May in Cairo, young political activists in Gaza went outside to celebrate.

But after Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas leader Khaled Meshal announced on Monday a new agreement in Qatar on the formation of an interim government to prepare the first national elections in years, there was no such public rejoicing.

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U.S. Transfers $40 Million In Aid To Palestinians

12/30/2011
JTA

The United States transferred $40 million in foreign assistance to the Palestinians. 

The Associated Press reported Thursday that congressional lawmakers released the funds, which amount to 20 percent of the $187 million in foreign assistance from fiscal year 2011 that was held up by Congress in response to the Palestinians' actions at the United Nations. 

The assistance that the U.S. is  for humanitarian and economic purposes and not for security assistance.

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Gingrich Under Fire For Comments On Palestinians

12/11/2011
JTA

Republican presidential front-runner Newt Gingrich stood by his assertion that the Palestinians are an "invented people," drawing criticism from other GOP candidates.

"Is what I said factually correct? Yes. Is it historically true? Yes," Gingrich said during a GOP debate Saturday night in Iowa. "We are in a situation where every day rockets are fired into Israel while the United States -- the current administration -- tries to pressure the Israelis into a peace process."

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Palestinians Try To Enter Jerusalem On 'Freedom Ride'

11/15/2011
JTA

Several Palestinians tried to enter Jerusalem on an Israeli bus from the West Bank.

The Palestinians and activists were attempting to draw attention to the restriction of freedom of movement of the Palestinians in a campaign that imitates the Freedom Rides of the U.S. civil rights movement. West Bank Palestinians are not allowed to enter eastern Jerusalem without special permits.

The Palestinian activists waited for nearly an hour near the West Bank settlement of Psagot until a bus stopped to pick up six of them; several other buses rode by without stopping.

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Blowing In The Wind

Submitted by Douglas Bloomfield on Sun, 10/16/2011 - 23:29

 Israel has agreed to the Mideast Quartet's latest proposal to resume negotiations without any preconditions, but the Palestinians are sticking to their demands for a settlement freeze and more before Mahmoud Abbas will sit down with Benjamin Netanyahu. 

 Meanwhile, the Netanyahu government announced new construction of Jewish housing in Gilo, just outside the Green Line, which many considered a snub of the Quartet's call for both sides to "refrain from provocative" and unilateral actions. 

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Jewish Protestors Arrested At U.N.

Yuli Edelstein in the Dialogue Tent.
09/23/2011
Stewart Ain
Staff Writer

Three days before a Palestinian was shot dead by Israeli security forces during a violent confrontation in the West Bank Friday, Rabbi Avi Weiss warned the United Nations that a Palestinian request for U.N. recognition of a Palestinian state might “inspire” violence.

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Palestinians Clash With Israeli Soldiers As Statehood Bid Looms

09/21/2011
JTA

An Israeli baby sustained a head injury as Palestinians clashed with Israeli soldiers ahead of the Palestinians' imminent statehood bid at the United Nations.

The 16-month-old girl was hit in the head with a rock during the Palestinian riots late Wednesday afternoon in the northern West Bank. She was rushed to a hospital in Petach Tikvah.

Gunshots were fired at a car traveling near the northern West Bank community of Karnei Shomron. Bullet holes were discovered in the car; no one was injured.

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Obama To Palestinians: Drop The Unilateral Approach

Submitted by Douglas Bloomfield on Wed, 09/21/2011 - 11:42

President Barack Obama had a clear warning for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas: don't try to bypass direct negotiations, it won't work.

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Meanwhile, In Yonkers, Israelis, Palestinians Meet

Dialogue Project founder Marsha Kannry. Her events “are about people listening to narratives they never heard about each other.”

Carefully structured Dialogue Project aims to promote understanding on both sides.

09/20/2011
Doug Chandler
Jewish Week Correspondent

As Israeli and Palestinian officials made preparations for this week’s showdown at the United Nations, a small group of Jews and Muslims gathered in Yonkers last week to sort through their own feelings and see if they could better understand the views of the other side.

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Social Justice and National Security

Rabbi Gerald Skolnik

Israel at the Brink… Of What?

09/08/2011
Rabbi Gerald C. Skolnik
Jewish Week Online Columnist

Taking Israel’s existential temperature right now and diagnosing exactly how to interpret what is going on there is no simple task.

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