by Paul Vallely | Dec 2, 2012 | Articles, MidEast
Editor’s Note – In a continued ploy to find ways to exert force on Israel, the UN upgraded the Palestinian Authority over the West Bank and Gaza when the PA acted unilaterally. This likely sets any peace agreement back and elevates the PA to use...
by Paul Vallely | Apr 29, 2012 | MidEast
Editor’s Note – Its an Islamist movement in charge now in Egypt, telling another in Gaza what to do. The Muslim Brotherhood’s spawn, Hamas, is now taking orders from Cairo, the MB seek to scrap the peace with Israel, so this effort to counsel Hamas...
by Paul Vallely | Sep 25, 2011 | MidEast
Business Week By Calev Ben-David Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority Minister Mahmoud Abbas emerged from their showdown at the United Nations buttressed domestically though no closer to peace talks. “Abbas succeeded in strengthening his...
by Paul Vallely | Sep 23, 2011 | MidEast
By BILL SPINDLE WSJ Online RAMALLAH, West Bank–Tens of thousands of Palestinians gathered in cities across the West Bank to celebrate and watch a speech by President Mahmoud Abbas on large television screens set up in central squares for the occasion. They were the...
by Paul Vallely | Sep 23, 2011 | Politics-DC
By Scott Winchell and Denise Simon- SUA has been showing to the world, along with our many friends, the REAL facts of the history of the area we call “Palestine”. Now Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority seeks to circumvent any further discussions...