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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration on Wednesday announced it was giving $20 million in direct aid to the Palestinian Authority to help it through a financial crisis. A senior Bush administration official said it hoped the aid would encourage additional donations from other countries "at a time when the Palestinian Authority is in desperate need of budget support to pay its bills, maintain stability and allow it to focus on the larger question of governing." The Palestinian Authority is facing a severe financial crisis due to falling tax revenues during four years of violence which has paralyzed the Palestinian...

JERUSALEM - The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) took President George W. Bush to task Thursday for stating the establishment of a genuine “Palestinian” democracy should be the focus of peace efforts, while appearing to sideline the need to eliminate anti-Jewish terror. “As we negotiate the details of peace, we must look to the heart of the matter, which is the need for a Palestinian democracy,” Bush told reporters after meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin. The president echoed the long-held claim that the absence of an independent Arab state on lands originally promised to the Jews was an...

Arab children used as human shields by Arab Terrorists fighting IDF Soldiers It is a Windows media player file and it is around 2MB. When you hear of Arab children being killed, and the IDF blamed by the world and the media, remember the images from this video.

Palestinian election officials have given voting rights to a jailed militant accused of ordering the killing of an Israeli minister, in a move Israel called a sign that Palestinian democracy was badly flawed. Palestinian poll officials said on Monday they signed up Ahmed Saadat, head of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, because they were trying to reach all eligible voters and he had not been convicted by a Palestinian court. But a senior Israeli official called the registration of Saadat "a mark of how corrupt this system is." "A society that is governed by terrorists and a...

Sunday, September 19, 2004 reports@pmw.org.il> Palestinian Media Watch Bulletin Sept.19, 2004 PALESTINIAN MEDIA WATCH phone: 972- 2- 625-4140 fax: 972-2- 624-2803 visit our website, click here: http://www.pmw.org.il for further information, contact PMW Director, Itamar Marcus material may be quoted, citing PMW as the source subscribe free to PMW reports, details below Mother Promotes Killing and Death- Return of PA TV Clip By Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook Mother of Shahid (Martyr for Allah) gives gun to next son [PA TV Sept 13 -14, 2004] Some of the most prominent violence and Martyrdom promotion clips are returning to PA TV....

A Palestinian boy aged 15 was arrested by IDF soldiers on Thursday at Roadblock 300, the main security checkpoint adjacent to the Gilo neighborhood south of Jerusalem, for attempting to stab a border policeman. The teenager, a resident of Bethlehem, raised the suspicion of soldiers as he approached the checkpoint. He was ordered to stop and a body search revealed he had a knife hidden in his clothing. He confessed that he had planned to stab soldiers at the checkpoint and was handed over to security officials for interrogation.

Unidentified gunmen in Ramallah Tuesday shot and killed another Palestinian suspected of collaboration with Israel. Rami Yaghmour, 28, was arrested last month by the Palestinian Authority's Special Forces security apparatus following suspicions that he was working for the Shin Bet. PA security sources claimed that he had confessed during interrogation to the charges against him. Yaghmour, a resident of Al-Bireh, is the sixth suspected collaborator killed in Ramallah the past 18 months. Eyewitnesses told The Jerusalem Post that Yaghmour was kidnapped by a group of masked gunmen as he was being escorted to a local court by members of the...

Translation from Hebrew to English by me "Before he left he gave me all his bills and documents and gave them to his mother. When she asked why he was doing it, he told her he was going to a wedding. Since then we didn't hear from him, and only when soldiers came to search the house of the son that he committed the suicide attack" - the cousin of Nisim Giabri, one of the two suicide terrorists in Bear Sheva, remarked. The cousin Giffaor, said that his act was like lightning on a clear day. "We didn't understand it...

The Palestinian state broadcast media today (Wednesday) embraced the two terrorists who blew themselves up on two Israeli buses, killing 16 people, bestowing on them the titles "martyr" (shahid) and "citizen" (muwatin). The Arabic language broadcasts of Yasser Arafat's Voice of Palestine condemned Israeli Army's "destruction of the home of martyr Ahmad Kawasmeh who carried out an explosive attack yesterday" as well as "the destruction of the home of Citizen Muhammad Ali Ja'abari by dint of charges that he carried out the explosive attack in Beersheba yesterday." "The destruction here is amazing and shocking," declared Voice of Palestine's correspondent Salem...

The United States is ready to be a partner in helping Palestinians build their own state and will keep to plans to hand over power to an interim Iraqi government on June 30, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice said Sunday. In a German television interview, Rice also said she felt "great shame" about the abuse of inmates at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad but insisted it had not undermined US moral authority in the world. Rice's comments came before talks in Berlin on Monday with Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei, part of a renewed Bush administration effort to bring about...

Palestinian officials said Sunday that they are ready for a cease-fire with Israel as a first step toward reviving the stalled road map peace plan. Militant groups Islamic Jihad and Hamas told Egyptian mediators they are ready to commit to a cease-fire, Palestinian Foreign Minister Nabil Sha'ath said. Sha'ath said he made the cease-fire proposal during a meeting Saturday in Jordan with United States Secretary of State Colin Powell. "We told Powell that ... we are ready for such a cease-fire if the United States is able to bring an Israeli commitment to such an agreement," he said. Sha'ath said...

Palestinian Minister Saeb Erekat has responded to US President George Bush's speech, saying "Bush understood that international agreements and direct talks are the guarantee for continuation of negotiations. The Palestinians are very encouraged by Bush's declaration, since only the Palestinians and the Israelis can discuss their conflict and come up with solutions. The pledges Bush made to Sharon are not legally valid".

The White House announced Thursday that United States National Security Advisor, Condoleezza Rice, will meet Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia in Germany on May 17. Rice will be the highest ranking U.S. official to meet the Palestinian prime minister. A source in the White House said that Rice will call on Qureia to recognize that Sharon's disengagement plan offers a historic opportunity to advance the Road Map peace plan.

Natzer Awartani, 16, was indicted at the Samaria military court on Tuesday for recruiting, preparing and dispatching young suicide bombers for the al-Aksa Martyr's Brigades, including 14-year-old Husam Abdu, who was apprehended on March 24, 2004 at the Hawara roadblock, explosives strapped to his waist, reported ynet Wednesday. At the time Abdu told security officials that he decided to carry out the suicide attack because he was sick of being made fun of by his schoolmates due to his small stature. The court indicted Abdu on two charges, intent to murder and possession of an illegal substance.

A nine-year-old Palestinian boy was killed and two other children were wounded in the West Bank on Tuesday when they accidentally detonated a pipe bomb apparently prepared by militants, witnesses said. The boys found the crude device hidden in the crevice of a stone wall close to a main road near the city of Tul Karm, and it exploded while they were playing with it, the witnesses said. Other Palestinian sources said, however, that the explosion had been caused by a flare left by IDF troops after training in the area overnight. The IDF said it had no information on...

WASHINGTON, April 14 (Reuters) - The Palestine Liberation Organization got an extension on Wednesday of its right to keep offices in Washington, on the same day U.S. President George W. Bush infuriated Palestinians by saying Israel could keep some of the Arab land it captured in the 1967 Middle East war. The White House said in a statement it wanted to allow a Palestinian presence in the U.S. capital in order to "maintain its ties and contacts" with parties in the hope of pursuing talks toward peace in the Middle East. The Bush administration said it was renewing for another...

A singer popular throughout the Arab world for his hit songs "Ana Bakra Isra'il" ("I Hate Israel") and "Kharittat Al-Tariq" ("Road Map", which includes lines blaming the US for the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington) revealed this week that he fears assassination by the Israeli and American secret services. The singer, Sha'aban 'Abd Al-Raheem, told the Qatari Al-Raya newspaper that he was invited to the United States to perform "I Hate Israel", but he turned down the invitation for fear of his life. The CIA and Mossad, Al-Raheem claimed, may be out to "get" him....

The Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, the leading Palestinian polling institute, has disclosed that a majority of Palestinians, 53 percent, support terror attacks against Israeli civilians. This represents a rise in support for terror - last December, 48 percent of respondents in a poll articulated support for terror attacks. In the latest poll, 87 percent of respondents said they favor attacks on Israeli soldiers; 86 percent supported attacks on settlers in the territories. Just before the assassination of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin last week, 27 percent of Palestinians on the Gaza Strip supported Hamas, as opposed to just 23...

Palestinian terrorists tried to recruit a 15-year-old as a suicide bomber, at one point locking him in a dark room, but also luring him with clothes, a cell phone and promises of paradise, his family said Tuesday. The story of ninth-grader Tamer Khweirah, who was extricated by an alert older brother, underscored the growing use of children by militant groups and stoked Palestinian debate over what is permissible in the fight with Israel. Tamer is one of four teens arrested by the Israeli military in the West Bank city of Nablus in the past week on suspicion they were recruited...

Former Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin continues to enjoy overwhelming popularity, even after his death. The elderly religious terrorist leader, known for his high-pitched voice and his wheelchair, could never have imagined that he would become the greatest hit in the Gaza Strip. Yet according to reports today (Sunday), sales of recordings honoring Yassin broke records and have practically halted the sales of other popular hits. It seems that there are those who don't hesitate to turn a profit from the death of the Sheikh. Immediately after the news of Yassin's assassination was released, one Palestinian company released a recording...