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PA supports Hamas disarmament, 'no room for Gaza militias,' Fatah leader tells 'Post' - exclusive

"The issue of disarmament should be discussed and agreed upon by Palestinian factions under the auspices of Arab states, especially Egypt," said the Fatah leader.

|ByDANA BEN-SHIMON
Hamas members stand at the funeral of Marwan Issa, a senior Hamas deputy military commander who was killed in an Israeli airstrike during the conflict between Israel and Hamas, in the central Gaza Strip, February 7, 2025.
A US marine Corps AV-8B Harrier jet taxis on the tarmac past US Marine Corps F-35 fighter jets parked at the former Roosevelt Roads naval base in Ceiba, Puerto Rico, on Tuesday. Selling F-35s to Qatar would be a bad idea, the writer says.

Selling F-35s to Qatar is a risk the US does not need to take - opinion

From past coups to battlefield betrayals, history warns that selling F-35s to Qatar could have grave consequences for the Middle East.

|ByMOSHE PHILLIPS
A construction site of a new residential neighborhood at the mixed religious-secular Jewish settlement in the West Bank Kfar Adumim, March 9, 2023.

Smotrich approves hundreds of housing units in multiple West Bank settlements

The units will be spread out between Hashmonaim, just over the Green Line in central Israel, and Givat Zeev and Beitar Illit near Jerusalem.

|ByKESHET NEEV
Yasser Arafat raises his hand as he declares an independent Palestinian state during the PNC meeting in Algiers. November 15, 1988.

On This Day: Yasser Arafat, PNC, announce Palestinian Declaration of Independence in Algiers

November 15 is also the birthday of Arafat's successor as PA leader, Mahmoud Abbas, who was born in Safed during the British Mandate in 1935.

|ByJAMES GENN

South Africa’s genocide charges against Israel: Cynical abuse of the ICJ - opinion

The terms used in South Africa's application to the ICJ are ironic, especially in light of its distorted interpretation of the Genocide Convention.

JANUARY 10, 2024ByALAN BAKER
THE INTERNATIONAL Court of Justice in The Hague: It is ironic that the world’s principal judicial organ is being petitioned by South Africa, at the evident behest and initiative of the Palestinian leadership, to adjudge Israel for the alleged crime of genocide, says the writer.

Operation Peace for Galilee: Israel's 1982 military action in Lebanon

Remembering a time as a war correspondent in Lebanon while the country returns to daily headlines for attacking Israel.

DECEMBER 23, 2023ByDVORA WAYSMAN
IDF forces fighting in Operation Peace for Galilee in Lebanon in 1982.

Israel-Hamas War: Making peace based on past experience - opinion

The rich experiences and detailed plans of predecessors can guide both the Israeli and the Palestinian people to a workable plan for the peaceful resolution of our conflict.

DECEMBER 23, 2023BySTANLEY RINGLER
PLO chairman Yasser Arafat (third right) gestures toward prime minister Yitzhak Rabin (third left) as US president Bill Clinton (center) stands between them, after the signing of the Oslo Accords on September 13, 1993.

Palestinians must find new path from Israeli rule after war, PA official says

Despite US efforts, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday that he would not allow the Palestinian Authority to run Gaza after the war.

DECEMBER 17, 2023ByREUTERS
Palestinian Authority Civil Affairs Minister Hussein Al-Sheikh speaks to The Media Line in his office in Ramallah.

Nazi symbols resurface in Huwara for second time in 10 days

Yossi Dagan, head of the Samaria Regional Council, expressed profound dismay at the swastikas in Huwara.

OCTOBER 24, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Nazi flags and PLO graffiti adorn a wall in Huwara, West Bank, October 24, 2023

Jewish people have always desired peace with all their neighbors - opinion

Thousands of Israelis died because the risk of the Oslo Peace Accords didn’t pan out, and its failure unleashed waves of terror Israelis are still falling victims to until today.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023ByALIZA PILICHOWSKI
YITZHAK RABIN knew of the likely failure of the Oslo Accords and the high price failure could bring, but on the small chance it could work, couldn’t pass on the opportunity to make peace, says the writer.

Oslo is dead: A Palestinian state will never exist - opinion

Thirty years on, we can say with confidence that Oslo and everything that it stood for is dead. Rather than trying to revive it, we would do well to offer it a fitting eulogy.

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023ByMICHAEL FREUND
US PRESIDENT Bill Clinton watches prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat shake hands after signing the Oslo I Accord, at the White House in Washington on September 13, 1993.

Israel will 'pay the price for settler crimes,’ Palestinians vow

The PA, Hamas and other Palestinian parties strongly condemned the attack on Turmus Ayya and said Israel would pay the price.

JUNE 21, 2023ByKHALED ABU TOAMEH
An aerial view shows burned vehicles after an attack by Israeli settlers near Ramallah in the West Bank, June 21, 2023.

Bill proposal removing 'terror-supporting' students from Israeli universities postponed

A-G Baharav-Miara warned that the bill would curb freedom of speech and could face "constitutional difficulties."

MAY 28, 2023ByELIAV BREUER
Israeli-Arab students and activists protest against a bill that would ban waving Palestinian flags at Israeli universities, at the Tel Aviv University, May 28, 2023.

The Nakba and genocidal wars against Israel - opinion

The Holocaust is over, but the legacy of those who perpetrated and promoted it thrives among many today who seek to destroy Israel.

MAY 14, 2023ByMOSHE DANN
YOUNG ARABS riot at the Lions’ Gate in Jerusalem’s Old City, in October 2000, the beginning of the Second Intifada. Yasser Arafat rejected Ehud Barak’s concessions, and declared a more violent conflict.