Abbas said he fully supports the French peace initiative, which would convene the Palestinians and Israelis under the auspices of the international community, without any amending.
Motti Dotan, head of the Lower Galilee Regional Council, wrote on Friday that "it's possible that" his comments the previous day on the Kol Chai radio station were "misunderstood" and that he "may have had a slip of the tongue."
Life in ancient Palestine was rough. The Jews who left for Babylonia tended to have it easier, living under kinder rulers than those in Roman and Byzantine Palestine. But those Palestinian Jews had an advantage: According to the prophet Joel, they would reap the eternal benefits of the last judgment and the resurrection that would […]