Yasser Arafat’s legacy: The death of Palestinian statehood - analysis

In many ways, the failure of the Palestinian cause in the last two decades is a result of the decisions of Arafat during the ten years he presided over the Palestinian Authority.

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN

THEN-PALESTINIAN Authority head and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat gestures during a speech in Ramallah, 2004.(photo credit: AMMAR AWAD/REUTERS)

Yasser Arafat died 20 years ago this month – November 11, 2004 – at the age of 75. He was born in 1929 in Cairo and was active in activism that led to the founding of the Fatah movement in 1959.

Fatah eventually became one of the major Palestinian factions that led to the formation of the Palestinian Authority in 1994.

Rabin en 1974: No hay solución militar para el conflicto árabe-israelí

Con motivo del 29 aniversario del asesinato de Yitzhak Rabin de acuerdo al calendario hebreo, los Archivos de las FDI publicaron una grabación del exmandatario en una reunión del Estado Mayor de las FDI en 1974, informó Haaretz.

Dos décadas antes de firmar los Acuerdos de Oslo con los palestinos y un acuerdo de paz con Jordania, Rabin creía que no había posibilidad de resolver el conflicto árabe-israelí por medios militares, sino solo a través de negociaciones.

“Respecto al conflicto árabe-israelí, no veo una manera de alcanzar una solución por medios militares”, dijo Rabin. “Si hay alguna posibilidad, y no estoy seguro que la haya, es solo a través de negociaciones diplomáticas”.

The first two-state solution: The forgotten partition of 1922

1920's Map of British Mandate for Palestine

When the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued its July 2024 advisory opinion on Israel's presence in Judea, Samaria (the West Bank) and East Jerusalem, it framed the legal analysis almost exclusively around the "1967 baseline." This has become the default setting in international discourse: treating these areas as "Occupied Palestinian Territory" without reference to the legal framework that existed before.

Yet, the true legal foundation of modern Israel, and the region as a whole, begins not in 1967, but over four decades earlier. It is rooted in binding international commitments from 1920 and 1922 that partitioned the land long before any modern Palestinian statehood claim arose.

Intriguing new poll finds 48% of Gazans support anti-Hamas demonstrations — and 43% want to leave Gaza

Also: aging Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas appoints a moderate as his VP and successor — what do we know about him?

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas gestures as he holds a leadership meeting in Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, April 23,2025. REUTERS/Mohammed Torokman

Palestinian opposition to Hamas is growing sharply.

Nearly half of all Gazans — 48% — now support the anti-Hamas protests that are steadily gaining momentum and size in the Gaza Strip.

At the same time, Palestinian support for the Hamas invasion and slaughter of Israelis on October 7 is steadily declining.

Lo que aprendí trabajando para Al-Jazeera

Aunque muchos siguen siendo manipulados por los medios de comunicación afiliados a la Hermandad Musulmana, como el de la familia real de Catar, el mundo árabe se está dando cuenta del peligro que también representan para él los ayatolás y los islamistas

Poco después de que Israel lanzara el ataque sin precedentes contra Irán para eliminar de una vez por todas una amenaza existencial, llegó la respuesta catarí.

El gobierno de Catar emitió un comunicado de prensa expresando «su enérgica condena y profunda denuncia del ataque israelí contra el territorio de la República Islámica de Irán», añadiendo que «el ataque es una flagrante violación de la soberanía y la seguridad de Irán» e instando a la comunidad internacional a tomar medidas rápidas contra Israel.

Sí, ese es el mismo gobierno catarí que nunca emitió un solo comunicado denunciando las acciones letales de Irán en Siria, Líbano, Iraq y Yemen, ni contra las comunidades kurdas en la región kurda de Iraq. El mismo Catar que durante décadas ha financiado y brindado respaldo político a las figuras más importantes de la Hermandad Musulmana, los talibanes y Hamás.

Micro History: Peace with Jordan (1994)

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United Nations: Still United Against Israel’s Ancestral Homeland

The United Nations’ 80-year history contains some wretched moments. On October 24, 1945—after World War II ended—51 countries officially launched the United Nations (U.N.). Although the organization was established with dreams of peace and “sovereign equality of all nations,” the majority of today’s 193 member nations are united against the world’s only Jewish nation.

Instead of supporting “sovereign equality” for Israel, the U.N. glorifies Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who still runs his “pay to slay” salary operation that rewards Palestinian terrorists for murdering Jews. Since October 7, 2023, the U.N. has increased its accusations—that humanitarian aid trucks were “violently looted,” for example, and that IDF soldiers used Palestinian children as human shields—as if Israel is the perpetrator of all that has befallen Gaza.

50 Years Ago! Golda Meir EXPOSED the DARK Truth About Palestinians

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British comedian and actor Sacha Baron-Cohen calls out BBC for distorted headline on Hezbollah’s massacre of 12 children in Israeli Golan

Sacha Baron Cohen arrives to attend a screening of the Oscars, in Sydney, Australia, April 26, 2021. (Photo: Rick Rycroft/Pool via REUTERS)

British Jewish comedian and actor Sacha Baron-Cohen called out the BBC for its biased reporting on the Hezbollah massacre of 12 children in the Druze town of Majdal Shams in Israel's Golan Heights. The Lebanese terrorist organization Hezbollah fired an Iranian-produced rocket that killed the children and youth while they were playing at a soccer field.

“Eleven dead in rocket attack on Israeli-occupied Golan,” BBC wrote in its original headline, failing to mention Hezbollah as the perpetrator. The British news network also emphasized its bias against Israel by using the expression

Fmr PM Naftali Bennett tells THE ROSENBERG REPORT: Israel’s rebirth is fulfillment of Ezekiel 37 prophecies.

Fmr PM Naftali Bennett tells THE ROSENBERG REPORT: Israel’s rebirth is fulfillment of Ezekiel 37 prophecies, it’s time to get tougher with Iran, and two-state solution blew up in our faces twice.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Joel C. Rosenberg (Photo: TBN's The Rosenberg Report)

JERUSALEM, ISRAEL – Israelis this week have been celebrating the 76th anniversary of the Jewish state’s modern rebirth in May 1948.

We are also grieving the death and the wounding of so many of our fellow citizens this year, as well as the 253 who were taken captive by Hamas.

What does it all mean?

EE. UU. dejará de cooperar en ciencia y tecnología con entidades israelíes en Judea y Samaria, Altos del Golán y Jerusalén Este

EE. UU. le dijo a Israel que cesará la cooperación científica y tecnológica con entidades en Judea y Samaria (Cisjordania), los Altos del Golán y Jerusalén Este, volviendo a una política de larga data que se había revertido bajo Donald Trump, informó The Times of Israel.

La cadena Kan dijo que la medida es un regreso a la directiva de que no habría cooperación científica y tecnológica en las áreas definidas por un funcionario anónimo del Departamento de Estado de EE. UU. como más allá de la Línea Verde de 1967 y “que siguen sujetas a negociaciones sobre su estado permanente”.

La política se revirtió brevemente bajo Trump, cuando el primer ministro Benjamín Netanyahu y el entonces embajador de los EE. UU., David Friedman, firmaron un acuerdo que eliminaba todas las restricciones geográficas anteriores de la cooperación científica de los dos países.

Despite ‘Fragile’ Truce, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Remains, Requiring 2-state Solution, UN Envoy Tells Security Council

Tor Wennesland, the UN’s special coordinator for the Middle East peace process, called on Monday for talks on a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. 

Wennesland told the Security Council that the recent exchange of airstrikes and rocket-fire between Israeli military forces and Palestinian armed groups, primarily Islamic Jihad, was a deeply worrying escalation and that the cease-fire declared on Sunday night was fragile. 

While the de-escalation, facilitated by Egyptian mediation, prevented the outbreak of a full-scale war and facilitated the delivery of humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza on Monday, the roots of the conflict remain. “I want to make the council

Why Israel’s Doomsday Nationalists Want To Destroy This

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The amazing story of the Western Wall

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Do Palestinians prefer united Jerusalem under Israeli rule? - opinion

There is much debate over the existence and route of the Jerusalem Day flag march which is planned to go through Damascus Gate.

By MARK REGEV

MOTTA GUR (right), the paratroop commander during the 1967 war, and Yitzhak Rabin (second from right), who had been IDF chied of staff, visit the Lions Gate in 1992 to mark the war's 25th anniversary where Israeli troops had entered the Old City. (photo credit: FLASH90)

The fault lines over this Sunday’s Jerusalem Day celebrations are often depicted in simplistic terms: Thousands of kippa-clad Israelis take part in the annual parade to mark the anniversary of the reunification of the city in the Six Day War of June 1967, while keffiyeh-sporting Palestinians demonstrate their opposition to Israeli rule over al-Quds. But the realities are far more nuanced.

Why the Amnesty ‘apartheid’ smear of Israel can’t be ignored

The anti-Semitic lies spewed by leftist “human-rights” groups are absurd. But this attack is part of a dangerous U.N. campaign against Zionism whose goal is to isolate the Jewish state.

JONATHAN S. TOBIN

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan meets with PLO chairman Yasser Arafat during the U.N. Racism World Conference in Durban in 2001. Credit: United Nations.

(February 2, 2022 / JNS) Say this for Amnesty International, its outrageous report alleging that Israel is an “apartheid state” has brought nearly all of the Jewish world together to condemn the organization. Groups from the Jewish right, left and center all agree that its claims are bogus and that its goal is not to criticize specific policies or push for it to withdraw from the 1967 borders. The purpose of the report is to

A Christian view of the coming Temple - opinion

A big topic in New Testament Bible prophecy: The building of the Third Temple.

By CHRISTINE DARG

A computer-generated rendition of the Third Temple

(photo credit: YOUTUBE SCREENSHOT)

The Temple Mount in Jerusalem is the focus of ongoing Bible history and prophecy.

This is the center of the world, where Abraham offered up his son Isaac, where King David purchased land and where his son Solomon built the First Temple. It is also where Jesus cleansed the Temple and a poor widow gave an offering of two copper coins that Jesus said was greater than all the most extravagant donations.

Ancient biblical Mount Moriah is Jerusalem’s most recognizable landscape— to the Jews it is called the Temple Mount and to Muslims it is the Noble Sanctuary.

25 de abril de 1982: Israel devuelve a Egipto el dominio de la Península del Sinaí

El 25 de abril de 1982 el Estado de Israel devolvió a Egipto el dominio de la Península del Sinaí, de una extensión de 60.000 kilómetros cuadrados, que había ocupado durante la Guerra de los Seis Días en junio de 1967.

Lo hizo según lo establecido en el acuerdo de paz firmado entre ambos países el 26 de marzo de 1979, con el que culminaron las negociaciones iniciadas, muchas de ellas secretas y otras públicas, luego de finalizada la Guerra de Yom Kipur el 18 de enero de 1974. Además, el 11 de noviembre del año anterior se había firmado el acuerdo de separación de las tropas que estaban en los lugares que dominaban al establecerse el cese del fuego entre Israel y Egipto.

Terror attack bared West Bank barrier’s gaps, but some say holes help keep the peace

Experts say despite tough talk from army, unspoken policy of allowing Palestinian laborers to enter Israel illegally for work will remain as a vital pressure release valve.

By EMANUEL FABIAN

In this September 6, 2020 photo, Palestinian laborers cross illegally into Israel from the West Bank through an opening in a fence, south of the West Bank town of Hebron. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, File)

Israeli leaders reacted with shock and anger last week when it emerged that a Palestinian man who gunned down five people in Bnei Brak had entered Israel via a hole in the West Bank security barrier big enough to drive a car through. But for years, Israeli officials have seemingly turned a blind eye to gaps in the barrier that are used daily by thousands of Palestinian laborers to enter Israel illegally.

El retorcido análisis palestino de la tragedia de Ucrania

La Autoridad Palestina ha procurado no pronunciarse oficialmente sobre la guerra en Ucrania, por sus buenas relaciones con Rusia, y en ningún momento condenó la invasión ordenada por Putin. Tratando de ponernos en su lugar, podemos hasta entender que no quieran arruinar los lazos con ninguna de las partes, ya que reciben apoyo tanto de Rusia como de la Unión Europea que está del lado de Ucrania.

Sin embargo, al mismo tiempo, son varias las críticas que merecen pronunciamientos palestinos a raíz de la guerra en Ucrania, a distintos niveles. En primer término, la analogía que trataron de hacer entre la situación en Ucrania y la situación palestina. Sin condenar ni por un momento a Putin y sin ponerse del lado ucraniano ni siquiera desde un punto de vista humano, distintas figuras políticas y