Both sets of leaders can comfortably rake in donations while maintaining the status quo.

To Palestinian leaders, anything is better than a peace plan.

From Paris in 1982 to the Achille Lauro.

Meet Muhammad Shtayyeh.

Fatah doesn’t want the UN to condemn its bitter enemy, Hamas.

Mahmoud Abbas cracks down on the very possibility of democracy.

Why Fatah denounces any cease-fire between Hamas and Israel.

An organization that once stood up for democracy.

A tale of two Palestinian women.

The U.S. and Israel can help by encouraging realistic expectations.

He is more openly skeptical of the peace process, and the two-state solution, than his patron.

Describing the burning alive of 38 Israelis as a “barbecue.”

Once Hamas gets what it wants, it can resume extorting money from its subjects.

Borrowing a page from Yasir Arafat’s playbook.