By Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian Authority President The time just is not right for a comprehensive peace deal between us and Israel. Even if it is, you won’t see me signing it. When that happens, I plan to be six feet ...
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Feed SubscriptionDon’t Insult My Life’s Work By Calling Israeli Policies ‘Genocide’
By Adolf Hitler I’m as anti-Jew as the next Nazi, but stop saying Israel commits genocide against the Palestinians. Calling anything Israel does to the Palestinians “genocide” is a slap in the face to those of us who devoted years ...
Read More »Documenting Palestinian Violations Of Human Rights is Just Too Darn Complicated
By the Palestinian Centre For Human Rights When a rocket kills a Palestinian child, there is only one important question we rights organizations ask: who fired the weapon? Only if the answer is Israel do we then examine the myriad ...
Read More »Our Desire To Destroy Israel As A Jewish State Is Not A Core Issue
By Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian Authority President The American-sponsored negotiations between us and Israel reached a stalemate long ago, with neither side budging on what many are calling the “core issues.” Those include arrangements for Palestinian refugees, borders, the status of ...
Read More »Teaching That Jews Have Rights Would Violate Palestinian Rights
By Filippo Grandi, Commissioner-General, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East As the head of UNRWA, I oversee a vast operation to help Palestinians exercise their rights, and one of those rights is denying ...
Read More »PreOccupied Territory Erectio- Corrections! We Mean Corrections!
By PreOccupied Territory Staff A January 27th Article entitled, “UN Insecurity Council Denounces Self” quoted an expert as characterizing the Council as troubled by issues of self-confidence, self-deception, and hypocrisy. It should also have included comical self-aggrandizement. In the January ...
Read More »How To Make Israel Look Bad For Abiding By Its Agreements With Us
By Saeb Erekat, Palestinian negotiator The struggle against Israel is essentially a struggle for public opinion. There’s no question the best way to capture public opinion is to sabotage agreements we made with Israel and then blame Israel for the ...
Read More »I’m Committing Crimes Against My Citizens, But I’m Not Israeli, So Who Cares?
By Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-Un As I hardly need tell you, North Korea is not Israel. We’re not Jewish, so it takes a lot more for us to get your attention. It would be different if we were Israel. ...
Read More »Wördy Shmurdy Gurdy Israel, Palestinians Börk! Börk! Börk!
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Read More »Nice Country, Israel. It Would Be A Shame If Anything Happened To It.
By US Secretary of State John Kerry You Israelis have done a wonderful job building up the place. It would certainly be unfortunate if something bad happened to it. Hey, I’m not threatening. I’m just telling you, there are plenty ...
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