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Sunday, September 03, 2023

Was Jordan behind Abbas' recent mass firing of envoys and governors?

The Media Line reports:After PA President Mahmoud Abbas fired 12 provincial governors and 35 foreign envoys, analysts say it is Jordan that has pushed him for changes out of concern for the stability of the entity on its border. Further overhauls may lie ahead.Rumors of imminent changes within the Palestinian Authority government continue to swirl, despite official denials...

Al Aqsa Brigades (Fatah) issues a direct challenge to Mahmoud Abbas, head of Fatah

After the clashed between Palestinain Authority and terrorist forces in Tulkarm this morning, the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades - which are associate with Fatah - issued what appears to be an unprecedented, direct challenge to their supposed leader, Mahmoud Abbas, president of the PA who is the head of the Fatah party.The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the military wing of the Fatah...

What would a Palestinian state look like? Look at Ain el-Hilweh, Lebanon

From Naharnet on Sunday:Clashes renewed Sunday in the Ain al-Helweh Palestinian refugee camp near Sidon between the secular Fatah Movement and hardline Islamist groups.TV networks said the fighting resumed after a senior Fatah commander was killed in an ambush.An Islamist had been killed and six people including children had been injured in overnight clashes in the camp.Key...

It sure looks like the PA is finally starting to crack down on West Bank terror groups

Early Monday morning, the Palestinian Authority arrested some major Islamic Jihad and Al Aqsa Brigades figures from the Jenin area. Also arrested were two students with ties to Hamas. This comes on the heels of their arresting several last week, and a number of others during Israel's last incursion into Jenin.Two of those arrested on July 5 embarked on a hunger strike...

Abbas' visit to Jenin was either a success or a failure, depending on which media you read

On Wednesday, PA president Mahmoud Abbas visited Jenin for the first time in over a decade.The visit was widely viewed as a belated attempt to assert that the PA is in control of the area, which no one really believes.Hamas media says:During his visit to Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank, the President of the Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, showed disregard for meeting popular...

Palestinian Authority stops a 17 year old Fatah activist transporting bombs, upsetting terror groups

The Palestinian Authority has been trying to walk a tightrope between publicly supporting terror to its people and quietly doing a small part to retake police control over the parts of the West Bank that have become fully subjugated to terror groups.The local terror groups complained loudly after Israel's Jenin operation last week that the PA had reportedly intercepted terrorists...

Palestinians shooting each other in Beit Ummar - and Palestinian police are nowhere to be found

Palestinian police aren't only abdicating on doing their jobs to stop the growth of terror groups in West Bank towns. They are also nowhere to be found when Arabs shoot at other Arabs.The Safa news agency reports:About a week ago, the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron, witnessed an escalation of security chaos, which claimed the lives of two young men, due to a quarrel...

In a Palestinian society where guns are cheap and violence is admired, people murder each other

In Hebron yesterday, three people were executed while driving in a car - by other Palestinians.Fighting broke out in Yatta as the news spread.This happens often. Sometimes the murders are from family feuds, sometimes from honor killings. The Palestinian Independent Center for Human Rights finds a correlation between Palestinians attacking Jews and Palestinians attacking...

Security and Insecurity (Vic Rosenthal)

Vic Rosenthal's Weekly Column Last week my Masorti shul hosted a visiting group of Americans, members of a Conservative synagogue. One of the subjects for discussion was “what’s the issue that you are most concerned with at your synagogue?” The answer was not declining and aging membership, providing Jewish education for children (and grandchildren), mixed marriage,...

Applying honor/shame to the metal detector fiasco

Once again, Palestinians are behaving irrationally. Once again, no one knows what to make of it. And once again, once you apply the honor/shame construct, it all makes perfect sense. Abbas didn't want to see the terror attack on the Israeli policemen. But he is bound by the social rules of his society, and once the events were set in motion, he has no choice but to act...