Tag: Fatah

As calls for all-out war on Gaza increase, it is important to set things straight.

Last week the IDF released statistics on rocket and mortar fire from Gaza on southern Israel. During 2007, 1,150 rockets were shot at southern Israel from Gaza.

The Palestinian Authority, aided by international donors, will attempt to open official institutions in Jerusalem within weeks, PA officials said.Hatem Abdel Khader, a leader...

Israeli police say they are investigating the broadcast of Muslim prayers along with anti-Semitic diatribes from the Temple Mount, but police officials would not...

With this week's U.S.-backed Annapolis summit aiming to hand the West Bank to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's organization, Israel has cracked down on...

JERUSALEM - The Hamas terror group will take over the West Bank if Israel evacuates the strategic territory to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah party, said Mahmoud al-Zahar, widely considered the head of Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

Some things never change. First and foremost, it seems, is the determination of American presidents to assist in the birth another enemy state called "Palestine." Notwithstanding this country's "War On Terror," the Bush administration continues on a conspicuously self-destructive path that will only make us more vulnerable to terrorism.

Hamas is setting the stage for a takeover of the West Bank, similar to the terror group's coup in which it seized control of...

During the Israeli cabinet's weekly meeting Sunday, Shin Bet director Yuval Diskin reported that a group of Fatah members from the Palestinian Authority's "security services" plotted to assassinate Prime Minister Ehud Olmert during his meeting with PA Chairman and Fatah chieftain Mahmoud Abbas in Jericho this past August.

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Here we go again. The more things change, the more they remain the same. Now it is Hebron, where a number of soldiers have correctly refused intrinsically wrongful orders to evict fellow Jews from their homes. Now it is Homesh, where authentic Jews labor industriously and heroically to remedy earlier IDF evictions.

Hamas and other Palestinian terror organizations in the Gaza Strip used American and international weaponry to attack Israel this week, top terror leaders told...

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak told the Egyptian government that the Jewish state is willing to forfeit control over the Temple Mount - Judaism's...

The following is the original text of an important lecture delivered by Professor Louis Rene Beres to the Dayan Forum, Israel, on March 11, 1994 (Ambassador Zalman Shoval, presiding). It remains entirely relevant today, especially with Israeli Prime Minister Olmert's: (1) recent release of Palestinian terrorists as a "goodwill gesture;" (2) the Prime Minister's equally incomprehensible support of one murderous terrorist faction (Fatah) against another (Hamas); and his corollary commitment to the altogether twisted cartography of a markedly one-sided "Road Map."

The following is the original text of an important lecture delivered by Professor Louis Rene Beres to the Dayan Forum, Israel, on March 11, 1994 (Ambassador Zalman Shoval, presiding). It remains entirely relevant today, especially with Israeli Prime Minister Olmert's: (1) recent release of Palestinian terrorists as a "goodwill gesture;" (2) the Prime Minister's equally incomprehensible support of one murderous terrorist faction (Fatah) against another (Hamas); and his corollary commitment to the altogether twisted cartography of a markedly one-sided "Road Map."

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert last week was presented with a proposal demanding the return to the state of more than 400,000 acres of land...

     Militants from Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's party have organized a terrorist cell in the northern West Bank over the past few days...

Israel and the United States still think of counter-terrorism as a narrowly military and geopolitical task. What both fail to realize is that Arab/Islamic terrorism in general, and Palestinian terrorism in particular, are driven by religious notions of sacrifice. As these notions are common to both Fatah and Hamas, the developing Bush/Rice/Olmert plan to aid the former against the latter is misconceived. This plan will fail promptly and calamitously. Othman Abu Gharbiya, Deputy Chief of the National and Political Guidance Bureau of Fatah (Al-Hayat al-Jadida, May9, 1998)

Seeking to strengthen Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas after the Hamas triumph in Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Olmert now intends to free many Fatah terrorists. "As a gesture of good will towards the Palestinians," Mr. Olmert announced at the Sharm El-Sheik summit with Abbas and the leaders of Egypt and Jordan, "I will bring before the Israeli Cabinet a proposal to free 250 Fatah prisoners who do not have blood on their hands." There should be no problem, he continued, because the Fatah men "must sign a commitment not to return to violence."

Terrorist groups, including Hamas and the Popular Resistance Committees, have reportedly seized large quantities of CIA security files that were stored at major compounds...

Now that Hamas has taken over Gaza, further exposing Mahmoud Abbas and Fatah as ineffective and quite possibly inconsequential players, its leading lights might want to erect a statue of Condoleezza Rice somewhere in beautiful downtown Gaza City.

Hamas this week seized control of large caches of U.S. weapons, including eight American armored personnel carriers provided to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah...

According to Israeli security officials, Hizbullah is rebuilding its forces in southern Lebanon near the Israeli border, in areas where international forces are deployed...

RAMALLAH - A long-wanted terrorist chief captured this week by Israeli forces was trained by the U.S., served in a senior capacity on Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's U.S.-backed security detail, and was a ranking member of a team that received and distributed American arms shipments the past two years, The Jewish Press has learned.

Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have been firing improved, more deadly rockets into nearby Jewish communities and have recently manufactured projectiles that can travel...

Hamas this week ambushed a convoy in the Gaza Strip, seizing a stockpile of American weapons transferred in recent months to militias associated with...

Iran, preparing for a possible confrontation with the United States and Israel over its nuclear program, has been training and funding Palestinian groups to...

Jordan has been quietly purchasing real estate surrounding the Temple Mount in hopes of gaining more control over the area, according to Palestinian and...