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Photo Credit: TwitterEmirati singer Walid Al-Jasem during a visit to Jerusalem, December 4, 2020 {Repsoted from the JCPA website} For generations, residents of the Middle East have been left behind because of old conflicts, hostility, lies, and deception. So many things have set them back, like the lies that Jews and Arabs are enemies and [...] Published December 16, 2020 at 03:35AM. Read full article at Politicians in the News Portal .

RAMALLAH, Wednesday, December 16, 2020 (WAFA) – President Mahmoud Abbas’ speech during the virtual Climate Ambition Summit 2020 dominated the front page headlines in Wednesday’s issue of the three mainstream Palestinian Arabic dailies. President Abbas was reported in al-Quds and al-Hayat al-Jadida stating that despite living under the ]Israeli[ occupation and the coronavirus pandemic, the [...] Published December 16, 2020 at 03:31AM. Read full article at Politicians in the News Portal .

TEL AVIV - Covid has hit the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, starting with Patriarch Msgr Pierbattista Pizzaballa, who tested positive for the virus and is currently in quarantine and in good condition. The Patriarchate communicated the news and said five other priests are also currently infected with the virus but all are asymptomatic. It said [...] Published December 15, 2020 at 11:46AM. Read full article at Politicians in the News Portal .

December 14, 2020 by David Singer Read on for article Another momentous week has seen President Trump broker diplomatic relations between Israel and Morocco – whilst Bhutan and Israel established diplomatic ties and Israel’s first commercial flight to Dubai occurred. It is also the week in which long-serving member of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) [...] Published December 13, 2020 at 05:13PM. Read full article at Politicians in the News Portal .

His Highness the Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani will meet on Monday with President of Palestine Mahmoud Abbas, who will arrive in the country on Sunday for a working visit. The Amir and the Palestinian President will discuss bilateral relations between the two brotherly countries and ways to support and enhance them, in addition [...] Published December 12, 2020 at 03:25PM. Read full article at Politicians in the News Portal .

Comment: Hanan Ashrawi's departure leaves the PLO a poorer place, headed by a power hungry Abbas, and in desperate need of reform, writes Muhammad Shehada. Since the signing of the 1993 Oslo accords, Dr Hanan Ashrawi has been the progressive face of official Palestinian diplomacy: a woman of Christian faith, a prominent activist, a critical [...] Published December 11, 2020 at 05:05PM. Read full article at Politicians in the News Portal .

Photo Credit: Mark Neyman/GPOPresident Reuven Rivlin (R) meets with then Czech Defense Minister and now Ambassador to israel Martin Stropnicky in Jerusalem, January 16, 2017. The Palestinian Authority’s Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Ministry on Thursday summoned the head of the Czech Republic’s Representative Office to Palestine Petr Starý, demanding clarifications on the Czech Foreign Ministry’s [...] Published December 04, 2020 at 05:09AM. Read full article at Politicians in the News Portal .

CAIRO, Nov. 29 (Xinhua) -- The Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul-Gheit and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas discussed on Sunday the latest developments in Palestine. During a meeting in the Egyptian capital Cairo, Abbas and Aboul-Gheit reviewed various aspects of the Palestinian cause in the wake of the recent developments on the international political arena, the [...] Published November 29, 2020 at 03:53PM. Read full article at Politicians in the News Portal .

Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki told the Mediterranean Dialogues Forum on Thursday night that the PA had indirectly informed US President-elect Joe Biden’s incoming administration of its willingness to return to negotiations with Israel on the basis of international law resolutions. “Right now, we are sending clear messages, not only to the Israelis and [...] Published November 26, 2020 at 03:44PM. Read full article at Politicians in the News Portal .

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin eulogized Argentine soccer legend Diego Maradona Wednesday, with the former calling him a “true friend of Israel.” Maradona, 60, died earlier Wednesday, two weeks after being released from a Buenos Aires hospital following brain surgery. A hero to many in Israel and across the world for his [...] Published November 25, 2020 at 04:02PM. Read full article at Politicians in the News Portal .

TDT | Manama The Daily Tribune -  www.newsofbahrain.com His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa received today cables of condolences from leaders all around the world following the passing of His Royal Highness the Prime Minister Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa. They extended their deepest condolences to HM the King, praying to Allah the [...] Published November 11, 2020 at 10:47AM. Read full article at Politicians in the News Portal .

Photos|| On behalf of President Mahmoud Abbas, Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh offers condolences to Emir of #Kuwait, Sheikh Nawaf ... Read original article here. Published October 04, 2020 at 10:04AM. Read full article at Politicians in the News Portal .

Weary of repeating his people’s longstanding grievances with Israel, the Palestinian leader used his United Nations General Assembly speech on Friday to request an international conference in early 2021 “with the participation of all concerned parties.”The request by the leader, President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority, appeared to reflect an acknowledgment that the ground [...] Published September 25, 2020 at 03:56PM. Read full article at Politicians in the News Portal .

The criminal charges against former prime minister Ehud Olmert were a "political assassination," PLO Executive Committee Secretary-General and chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said Monday evening."In November 2008, after Prime Minister Ehud Olmert exchanged maps with [Palestinian] President Mahmoud Abbas of two states on the 1967 borders with mutually agreed swaps of land in size [...] Published September 21, 2020 at 03:41PM. Read full article at Politicians in the News Portal .

The Gaza Strip is expected to run out of medical equipment used to treat coronavirus patients in less than a month, the Palestinian Health Ministry warned Thursday, according to Anadolu Agency.According to the media outlet, the ministry's Spokesperson Ashraf al-Qidra said the strip is facing a "difficult and dangerous" drug shortage that affects Gaza's efforts [...] Published September 18, 2020 at 06:50PM. Read full article at Politicians in the News Portal .

What was going through Mahmoud Abbas’s head, I wonder, as he watched the inspirational normalization ceremony at the White House on Tuesday, carried live on Palestinian TV? Was he thinking, that could have been me, up there on the balcony, making peace with Israel, if only I’d so much as responded to prime minister Ehud [...] Published September 17, 2020 at 07:31AM. Read full article at Politicians in the News Portal .

Israel's rapprochement with Gulf Arab states has left the Palestinians feeling abandoned by traditional allies and clutching an old playbook in a rapidly changing Middle East, analysts and critics say.As the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain prepared to sign normalisation accords with Israel at a White House ceremony on Tuesday, Palestinian leaders face calls to [...] Published September 16, 2020 at 04:21PM. Read full article at Politicians in the News Portal .

Three things seem certain in the Middle East: death, taxes and the uncanny ability of Palestinian leaders to make terrible choices that leave their people worse off.  A New York Times feature has demonstrated yet again not only this principle in action but the dysfunction at the heart of Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas’ [...] Published September 14, 2020 at 07:07PM. Read full article at Politicians in the News Portal .

Countries send billions to the Palestinian Authority . . . which then donates millions to Harvard University. The school then hires a failed, dishonest Palestinian diplomat to teach . . . diplomacy. It’s true: Harvard just hired Saeb Erekat, the Palestinian Liberation Organization’s chief negotiator, as a “senior leader in diplomacy” — after it got nearly $2 million in [...] Published September 13, 2020 at 07:12PM. Read full article at Politicians in the News Portal .

The Palestinian Authority and the Hamas terror group both condemned Friday’s Israeli-Bahraini normalization deal as another “stab in the back” by an Arab state and act of “aggression” against their people. Turkey and Iran also condemned the accord. The agreement was “a stab in the back of the Palestinian cause and the Palestinian people,” like [...] Published September 11, 2020 at 03:34PM. Read full article at Politicians in the News Portal .