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The call from the Left is to “resist” a “Fascist America,” which is supposedly the direction the United States is taking under President Trump. Among other things, leftists regularly accuse President Trump and members of his administration of anti-Semitism. Yet one of the leaders of the “resistance” movement, and a co-organizer of the next women’s protest on March 8th is Rasmea Yousef Odeh, a convicted Palestinian terrorist. Odeh had participated in bombings in Israel nearly 50 years ago, one of which resulted in the killing of two Israeli students. Now she is advocating militant resistance in the streets of the United States. For...

The recent rampages of gunmen in the Gaza Strip - in which some Palestinian policemen who engage in criminal activity have been involved - are very worrisome. Over the weekend Palestinian police threatened and drove away European Union observers who sought to carry out their duties at the Palestinian-Egyptian border crossing at Rafah. The kidnapping of foreigners who have come to the Gaza Strip to help the Palestinians has become routine. The loss of a sense of safety first of all harms the civilian Palestinian population, casts a heavy shadow on the Palestinian Authority, and raises grave doubts about its...

In a letter sent this week to PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), official PA militia officers declare that, even as internal security collapses, they will only point their guns at Israel. In the letter, revealed by UPI, the officers warn that the Palestinian Authority (PA) security apparatus is on the verge of collapse due to widespread corruption and the ongoing state of anarchy that exists in autonomous areas. The authors of the letter to Abu Mazen state that they reject ongoing US and Israeli pressure demanding the disarming of PA terrorist organizations. Instead, the militia officers declared, their...