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In advance of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent visit to the United States, President Obama gave an interview in which he viciously attacked Israel, suggesting that Israel was the cause of the peace process failure, that the United States could no longer protect Israel if the peace process failed and that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was a man of peace. This past week, Abbas came to visit Obama at the White House. In advance of his trip, Obama made no statements expressing displeasure with the Palestinian Authority’s intransigence and its continued demonization of Israel. Just before the meeting...

The Wall Street Journal has released the profiles of three Palestinians being held by Israelis who Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas apparently refuses to recognize as terrorists. During a meeting between Abbas and President Bush at the White House last week, Bush called on the Palestinian leader to end terror attacks and dismantle terrorist infrastructure. But as the WSJ article points out, Abbas refused to use the terms "terrorism" or "terrorists" -- but did demand the release of what he called "prisoners of freedom" being held in Israeli jails. The Wall Street Journal says the so-called prisoners of freedom include a...

What is the price of trying to make life easier for the Palestinians? A simple answer: murder most foul. Israel voluntarily removed roadblocks; so terrorists in a Fatah group, the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, put stolen Israeli license plates on a car, sped by a crowd at a hitching post, and opened fire with automatic weapons. Three young Israelis, including a 15-year-old, were killed, and four others were wounded. Now the entire Palestinian population will have to bear the burden of tighter Israeli security. To protect its citizens, Israel has to ban all private Palestinian cars from the main roads, rebuild...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas basked in the White House limelight again but made little progress in whipping up additional US support in his standoff with Israel, analysts said. They said President George W. Bush gave no sign he was ready to press Israel to discuss broader peace issues with the Palestinians after its landmark pullout from the Gaza Strip last month. And Bush took a significant step backwards by dropping any notion of a timetable for the creation of a Palestinian state he had once hoped would be in place by the end of this year, the...

10/20/2005 (Washington D.C.)- President Bush says during joint press conference with PA leader in Washington, ‘The way forward is confronting the threat armed gangs present to creation of a democratic Palestine.’ Abbas, in response, insists Israel lift curbs on Palestinian travel in the West Bank, saying they had turned the lives of Palestinians into 'Hardship and humiliation.' President George W. Bush heaped praise Thursday on Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and said prospects for Palestinian gaining a state seem to be closer than ever before. But Bush said at a news conference after one-hour meeting in the Oval Office that...

U.S. won't oppose Hamas participation in PA elections By Shmuel Rosner and Arnon Regular WASHINGTON - The United States will not actively oppose Hamas' participation in the Palestinian Authority parliamentary elections, Palestinian officials said following U.S. President George Bush's meeting with PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas yesterday. Even before the White House meeting, American officials said that while Washington objects in principle to allowing an armed organization to run in the elections, the final decision rests with the PA. And while Bush raised the issue of disarming Hamas prior to elections at yesterday's meeting, he did not dwell on it or...

U.S. won't oppose Hamas participation in PA elections By Shmuel Rosner and Arnon Regular WASHINGTON - The United States will not actively oppose Hamas' participation in the Palestinian Authority parliamentary elections, Palestinian officials said following U.S. President George Bush's meeting with PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas yesterday. Even before the White House meeting, American officials said that while Washington objects in principle to allowing an armed organization to run in the elections, the final decision rests with the PA. And while Bush raised the issue of disarming Hamas prior to elections at yesterday's meeting, he did not dwell on it or...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President George W. Bush said that Palestinians might not have an independent state before he leaves office in January 2009, but urged them to crack down now on extremists who target Israel. After talks with Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas, Bush renewed his support for Palestinian statehood bit did not second his guest's call for an immediate resumption of talks under the US-backed "roadmap" to peace with Israel. "I believe that two democratic states living side by side in peace is possible. I can't tell you when it's going to happen. It's happening," Bush said during a...

US President George W. Bush Thursday declared that the dream he shares with the Arab world of birthing a Muslim state on the ancient Jewish lands of Judea, Samaria and Gaza is closer to reality today than ever before.He vowed to use America's considerable influence to help “realize [that] shared vision.”Speaking at a joint press conference in Washington, Bush heaped praise on visiting PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas, despite the latter's refusal to honor his primary peace commitment to disarm and dismantle anti-Jewish “Palestinian” terrorist organizations.For Israel he had a warning: You will be “held to account” for any actions that...

Today the President met with the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the Oval Office and later held a Press Conference in the Rose Garden of the White House. The two leaders spoke of ways of bringing about peace in the Middle East and ending the violence and bloodshed. This evening the President is on his way to California for an overnight stay so he can attend the opening of the $31 million Air Force One Pavilion at the Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif. tomorrow.

General Summary On the eve of PLO leader Mahmoud Abbas’s planned visit to Washington, the broadcast media of the Palestinian Authority (PA) maintained a generally tough anti-Israeli and sometimes even anti- American posture, regarding talks with Israel and American actions in the Arab world.

JNW HEADLINE NEWS Abbas preaches democracy to the US By Ryan Jones October 20th, 2005 Mahmoud Abbas, the head of a totalitarian regime, took it upon himself Wednesday to preach to the United States regarding who should and should not be allowed to participate in democratic elections. As he has for the past several months, Abbas insisted Israel and its American allies refrain from interfering in the Palestinian Authority's “democratic” process by pressuring him to disqualify the Hamas terrorist organization from participating. The “Palestinian” leader told US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that undermining his authority on this matter and...

Hours before his meeting with US President George Bush, Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas accused Israel on Thursday of strengthening radical Palestinian groups that reject his peace agenda by continuing to isolate the Gaza Strip after the pullout and expand West Bank settlements. "Unfortunately, Palestinians cannot pursue the road map alone," Abbas wrote in an article published in the Wall Street Jounrnal. Abbas said he had done his part to pave the way to peacemaking by starting security reforms and generally maintaining a truce by Palestinian factions. "Israel has created obstacles in the face of a full and unconditional return...

Bush praises Abbas in White House visit BARRY SCHWEID Associated Press WASHINGTON - President Bush heaped praise Thursday on Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and said prospects for Palestinians gaining a state seem better than ever before. "President Abbas is a man devoted to peace and to his people's aspiration for a state of their own," Bush said. "And today, the Palestinian people are closer to realizing their aspirations." But Bush said, at a news conference after a one-hour meeting in the Oval Office, that "the way forward is confronting the threat armed gangs present to creation of a democratic Palestine."...

(CNSNews.com) - How preoccupied is the White House by its problems, President Bush was asked during a joint appearance with Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday. President Bush said he has a job to do - and he's doing it. "There's some background noise here - a lot of chatter and speculation and opining -- but the American people expect me to do my job, and I'm going to," he said. President Bush said he's devoting his efforts to peace in the Middle East, the economy, rebuilding after the Gulf Coast hurricanes, and preparing for Hurricane Wilma. Asked about...

Abbas Claims Terrorists Have Disarmed 18:04 Oct 20, '05 / 17 Tishrei 5766 (IsraelNN.com) Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) told a press conference several minutes ago that he has succeeded in disarming terrorist gangs. He did not refer to the Monday murders of three Israelis. Abbas and President George W. Bush met reporters after an hour-long discussion. Abbas said terrorist organizations have accepted his demand not to hold public demonstrations with firearms and that their disarming will enable them to participate in PA elections. Hamas terrorist leaders, the major challenger to Abbas, have said they will not...

PRESIDENT BUSH: Thank you all, thanks. It's my honor to welcome the democratically elected leader of the Palestinian Authority to the White House for the second time this year. We just had some good talks. Mr. President, thanks. A good, open, exchange of ideas. President Abbas is a man devoted to peace and to his people's aspirations for a state of their own. And today the Palestinian people are closer to realizing those aspirations. It's a really interesting period of history, I think. I was just commenting to the President when we were in the Oval Office how much things...

The Simon Wiesenthal Center has urged President Bush to protest the broadcast of an antisemitic sermon by Palestinian TV during his May 26th White House meeting with PA President Abbas. The request to the President by Rabbis Marvin Hier and Abraham Cooper, dean and associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center (respectively) came on the heels of a May 13th genocidal sermon broadcast live on Palestinian Television by Gaza cleric Sheikh Ibrahim Mudairis. In that sermon, Mudairis, who appears frequently on Palestinian Television, charged that, "The Jews are the cancer spreading all over the world...the Jews are a virus like...

President Bush Welcomes Palestinian President Abbas to the White House following Abbas's meeting with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Palestinian prime minister Ahmad Qorei the previous day at the State Department Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was the guest speaker at the All-American Week at Pike Field Ft. Bragg, N.C Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist met Indoesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono during his visit with legislators on Capitol Hill Enjoy your visit to Sanity Island coming to you from England

Deputy Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, seemingly alarmed by the reports emanating from Thursday's White House meeting, says there's nothing new in the White House commitments to Abu Mazen. Olmert told Army Radio Friday morning that the reports of firm White House promises to the Palestinian Authority (PA) are exaggerated. He did not elaborate, however, saying the radio is not the forum to speculate about the position of US President George W. Bush and his administration. Olmert is an adamant proponent of the disengagement/expulsion plan, and was the first senior official to hint at, and then later openly support, Prime Minister...