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into war crimes committed during Israel's 2008-2009 attack on the people of Gaza. In cable 09TELAVIV2777 of December 2009, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is said to have named the report as one of three "principal threats" facing Israel — the other two being Iran's alleged nuclear programme and "missile proliferation". Second, there are important insights into the high level of collaboration between Israel and forces that have been called the "Palestinian Contras" in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Indeed, the first "cablegate" headline on Palestine was sourced from ca...

May 16, 2021 Share Palestinian hackers were found to be involved in two “clusters of unrelated cyber espionage activity,” according to Facebook. Facebook accused the Palestinian Preventive Security Service’s (PSS) cyber department of conducting rudimentary hacking operations against Palestinian journalists, human rights activists, and Palestinian Authority political opponents in the West Bank and Gaza (PA). Facebook accused them that they have also activity targeted Syrian opposition groups and the Iraqi military. But Ikrimah Thabet, PSS Director of Public Relations and Spokespe...

Once again, we are faced with the ugly spectacle of a terrorist-generated war in the Middle East. Disturbances on the... He is aware that one surefire method of exploiting the gullibility of and riling up young hotheads is to reiterate false claims about Israel trying to “storm” the Al-Aqsa mosque. Never mind that the house of Muslim prayer in question is located on the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism. In the tradition of his predecessor—arch-terrorist and PLO chief Yasser Arafat—Abbas is a “temple denier” who rejects the Jews’ history in and connection to the city. Th...

(May 11, 2021 / JNS) The anti-Israel response to the current Palestinian and eastern Jerusalem Arab violence was to be expected, particularly as it has been on a steady crescendo since the weeks leading up to and during Islam’s holy month of Ramadan. But, contrary to the successful dissemination and perpetuation of propaganda, it has nothing to do with Israeli behavior or its celebration of Jerusalem Day—the anniversary of the unification of the city after the 1967 Six-Day War. Palestinian Authority leader and his Fatah faction know this full well. Ditto for Hamas, which rules the Gaza St...

Elections or not, the PA is intensifying its authoritarian rule online The run-up to PA elections has alarmingly shown what Palestinian political activism is facing in the digital age: more surveillance, more repression. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas during a tour in the West Bank city of Ramallah, May 15, 2020. (Flash90) When Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called for elections in January, the news was met with profound skepticism. Abbas has previously declared elections without going through with them, and under his 16-year rule, the Palestinian Authority has become more corrupt a...