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Wednesday, March 29, 2023

In October, the Palestinians enacted their own draconian judicial reforms. The West ignored it.

Abbas with members of the Supreme Constitutional Court that he appointedDuring these tumultuous times of anger and angst over the future of Israel's judiciary, it is worth looking at recent changes to the judicial system under the Palestinian Authority that received next to no Western coverage.On October 28, Mahmoud Abbas issued a presidential decree creating the Supreme Council...

How Palestinian laws are made. Step 1: Mahmoud Abbas declares them. (There is no step 2.)

Today, a new law is on the Palestinian books.The General Intelligence Law No. 17 of 2005 said said that the head of Palestinian general intelligence must be less than 60 years old and can only remain in the job for three years, perhaps extending to four. (Oh, and he also is not allowed to be married to a non-Arab woman.) But Mahmoud Abbas likes his loyal intelligence...

Dictator Abbas attempts to replace doctors' union with his own people

Mahmoud Abbas, the ruthless dictator who already controls the executive, legislative and judicial branches of the Palestinian government, is now going after....the unions.On Tuesday, the Palestinian Authority president issued a presidential decree to dissolve the Doctors' Syndicate and to replace it with another union headed by his own pick, Shawki Sabha.The Doctors Syndicate...

Palestinians angry at obvious nepotism in Palestinian Authority

Recently, a position as Palestinian "Minister of Local Government" was given to the daughter of another minister, causing Palestinian social media to erupt with anger and jeering for a history of nepotism and favored appointments to friends.There's a history here. Last year several envoys to foreign countries were given to relatives of senior Fatah officials. Palestinian...

Used to be, Palestinian terror leaders could get automatic throngs for demonstrations.No more.

Not too long ago, whenever Hamas or Islamic Jihad or Fatah wanted to fire up their people, they would put together a massive rally where tens of thousands could be summoned at seemingly the snap of a finger. Here's a Hamas rally from 2017:An Islamic Jihad rally from 2016:But on Thursday, The Palestinian Authority and Islamic Jihad held a rally to protest President Biden's...

The media completely ignores the corruption inherent in the PLO and PA

On Thursday, Mahmoud Abbas led a meeting of the PLO Executive Committee, for which he has been the chairman since 2004.Here is what the meeting looked like as they prayed to open the session:Sixteen older white men, almost all Muslim. Hanan Ashrawi, a Christian woman, was a member of this committee but she resigned in 2020 - partially because all the decisions were being...

Palestinian vaccine hypocrisy continues

This week there was more of a circus when it came to COVID-19 vaccines to the Palestinians.The Palestinians sent a truck with supposedly 1000 double-dose vaccines to the Beitunia crossing on Monday to go to Gaza. They didn't coordinate this with Israel and Israel didn't do anything.So the Palestinians and the haters started the story that Israel was refusing to send vaccines...