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The answer is that there is only one PA message and the problem is that Israeli leaders, the media and the international community have not mastered the Palestinian language – “Palestinese.”

The PA and PLO will never accept anything short of Israel's destruction.

The pervasive Palestinian antisemitism is the direct result of the PA’s teachings.

Palestinian children have the right to be brought up not as mere “ammunition.”

There are two dominant parties in Palestinian politics: Fatah and Hamas.

If the international community covers the needs of the Palestinian population, the PA can use its own funds to reward terrorism

For PA leaders, individual Palestinians are irrelevant; their only value is to promote the leaderships' agenda.

How can the Palestinians accept a plan that clearly points to their leadership failing them for the past 25 years?

The underlying message of the U.S.-sponsored summit in Manama exposes the fact that the P.A. and PLO no longer represent the interests of the Palestinians.

Itamar Marcus and Maurice Hirsch of PMW react to the European Union's recent 15 million Euro funding boost for the Palestinian Authority

Israeli-Palestinian “security coordination” is nothing but a bluff that predominantly serves Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah Party to rid itself of its own political rivals from Hamas.

While the international community has poured in tens of millions of dollars and euros specifically for the purpose of creating and sustaining a democratic Palestinian Authority, the results are abysmal.

When Israel was forced to pay for the murder of its own citizens

Before March 17, 2019, Omar Abu Laila was just an ordinary unknown 19-year-old Palestinian. Now he is a Palestinian symbol and hero. Why? 

Op-eds by PMW's Director Itamar Marcus and Head of Legal Strategies Maurice Hirsch. (March 27, 2019)

"Tragically, Hamas and Fatah are fighting each other with the only weapon they have that assures popularity among the broad spectrum of Palestinians: attempting to kill Israelis."

"The launch of a rocket this morning by the Palestinian 'factions' – a.k.a terrorist groups – targeting the center of Israel’s civilian population was inevitable."

"A fundamental stipulation and Palestinian commitment of the Oslo peace process was to abandon the use of violence as a means to achieve the Palestinian goal of self-determination."

"While it might be premature to eulogize PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, his recent actions demonstrate beyond any doubt that the most prominent legacy of his 15-year presidency is to reward terrorists at the expense of law-abiding Palestinians."

"Instead of heeding the call of the US administration, the PA made a positive decision to waive the US aid and continue its ”Pay for Slay“ policy."

The U.S. has already recognized Abbas’ direct connection to terror. The time has come to announce to the world that Abbas and all PA leaders involved in funding terror are not welcome there. (Jan. 14, 2019)

"Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) calculated that the approximately $350 million the PA allocated to finance its ‘Pay for Slay’ policy in 2018 amounted to just over 7% of the entire official PA budget."

"In the decades of monitoring the Palestinian Authority’s open sources, PMW has exposed that the PA Ministry of Education teaches that terrorist 'martyrs' are 'heroes.'"

"The PA warns it will collapse if funds are cut off -- let it stop squandering massive sums on rewarding terrorists."

"If you want to know why Palestinian children believe that killing Israelis is model behavior, all you have to do is look at a chapter in one of their schoolbooks."