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UNHRC, UNICEF turn blind eye to abuse of Palestinian children

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

PMW op-ed: Why Israel will be blamed for the absence of PA elections

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

PMW op-ed: When the Dutch stopped funding the PA’s ‘Pay-for-Slay’

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

PMW op-ed: The Invisible Palestinian

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

PMW op-ed: 50 billion reasons why the PA and PLO reject Peace for Prosperity

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

PMW op-ed: The real reason the Palestinians are refusing to attend the Bahrain conference

The underlying message of the U.S.-sponsored summit in Manama exposes the fact that the P.A. and PLO no longer represent the interests of the Palestinians.

PMW op-ed: The EU bias against Israel that feeds the PA’s ‘Pay for Slay’ policy

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

PMW op-ed: The ‘security coordination’ bluff

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.

PMW op-ed: PA Prime Minister puts the last nail in the coffin of Palestinian democracy

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.

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PA Prime Minister on reconciliation: “The government and the Fatah Movement are opening their doors to the Hamas Movement to end this dark chapter in our history”

PMW op-ed: When Israel was forced to pay for the murder of its own citizens

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

PMW op-ed: From An Unknown Teenager To A Palestinian Symbol – In Just Two Weeks

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?

2 PMW op-eds explaining why Hamas is launching rockets at Israel

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

PMW op-ed: Hamas strategy: Kill Israelis to defeat Fatah

"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."

PMW op-ed: The inevitable Hamas rocket attack

"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."

PMW op-ed: UNSC to debate Israel’s response to the PA’s ‘pay-to-slay’ program

"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."

PMW op-ed: Abbas’s Legacy

"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."

PMW op-ed: PA chooses terror promotion and rewards over US aid

"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."

PMW op-ed: Keep Abbas out of the US

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)

PMW op-ed: The joke of Palestinian ‘democracy’

"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."

PMW op-ed: On anniversary of UN’s ‘declaration of the rights of the child,’ Palestinians still imbue youth with hate

"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.'"

PMW op-ed: On ‘Pay for Slay’ the UN and Abbas are misleading the world

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

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PA leader Nabil Shaath: Australia is “worthy of being spat on”

PMW op-ed: The worst chapters in Palestinian schoolbooks

"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."

PMW op-ed: Defense Minister Lieberman offers strong words but little action on Palestinian salaries to terrorists

"When PMW exposed, on March 28, that the PA’s 2018 annual budget had once again allocated hundreds on millions of shekels to the payment of the terror rewards, the Defense Minister was quick to tweet..."

PMW op-ed: Had there been no Balfour Declaration, the PA would have had to invent it

"Ever since Palestinian Media Watch has been monitoring the PA, the date of the Balfour Declaration was among the most important days on the PA calendar."

PMW op-ed: The Time Has Come For FIFA To Kick Terrorism Out Of Football

"In March this year, Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) submitted a detailed complaint to FIFA's Disciplinary Committee."

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