Posts Tagged: Salam Fayyad
Harvard University Faces New Antisemitism Controversy with Invitation of Pro-Hamas Speaker
Harvard University is enmeshed in another antisemitism controversy following reports that a Middle Eastern studies professor has invited Dalal Saeb Iriqat, an extreme anti-Zionist and...
The US Strikes a New Tone at the UN by Standing With Israel
Newly instated US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley passed her first test on Saturday, showing loyalty to her country's greatest ally in the Middle...
Analyst: Obama Executive Order to Release $148 Million Part of Effort to Bring Gaza Under PA Sway
In an interview with The Algemeiner, Middle East analyst Jonathan Schanzer explained US President Barack Obama's recent executive order to waive congressional restrictions to allow...
Report: Fatah in Touch With Hamas, Egypt Regarding Unity Talks
A senior member of Fatah has told Bahrain's Al-Ayam newspaper that his organization is in touch with Egypt and Hamas "to agree on...
Salam Fayyad Quits Palestinian Government, Adds Uncertainty to Peace Talks
Salam Fayyad has resigned his position as Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority, adding uncertainty to the future of peace talks between Israel and the...
Fayyad Allegedly Tenders Resignation
Times of Israel - Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad offered to resign his post Wednesday after an apparent falling out with PA President...
Report: Despite Budget Crisis PA Pays Millions to Convicts
Despite suffering from a financial crisis the Palestinian Authority still pays 4% of its total budget to Palestinian Arab convicts in Israeli prisons, according to...
Norway Foreign Minister in Israel Expresses Anger Over PA Use of Aid to Pay Terrorists
Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide expressed anger at the Palestinian Authority during his visit to Israel on Wednesday, following the discovery that the PA...
Obama Calls for Contiguous Palestinian State, An End to Preconditions During Meeting With Abbas
On his second day in the region U.S. President Barack Obama made the short trip from Jerusalem to Ramallah to hold talks with Palestinian Authority...
Study Equates Zionist Pioneers with Arab Terrorists
The film is grainy and amateurish, but the image is stirring: one-armed Yosef Trumpeldor, Zionist national hero, ploughing a field in the Galilee in 1913. By coincidence,...
Arab Activists Stage Wedding in Effort to Return to Illegal E1 Outpost
After being removed by the IDF from a makeshift demonstration outpost, Palestinian Arab protesters got creative in an effort to return to the area. Activists erected a makeshift...
Israel Better Brace for Secretary of State John Kerry
President Obama's decision to nominate Senator John Kerry as his next Secretary of State will prove to be a disaster for Israel. The choice of the...
New Poll Shows Palestinian Majority Supports Hamas Over Fatah
A new poll shows that Palestinian Arabs in the West Bank almost unanimously approve of Hamas's recent handling of an 8-day conflict with Israel....
Palestinian Activists Decry PA Leadership, Call for End of Oslo Accords
Palestinians are expressing increasing frustration at their leaders, with the latest example being a call by Palestinian activists for mass demonstrations in the West Bank to demand...