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| PA shutters paper that criticized its ties with Israel |
| 2015-11-07 |
| [IsraelTimes] Arab daily has also accused Abbas's Paleostinian Authority of torturing Paleostinians Paleostinian Authority in the West Bank shuttered the local office of a pan-Arab newspaper over its reporting on Paleostinian security coordination with Israel. As Paleostinian-Israeli street violence surged last month, Al Araby Al-Jadeed daily accused the administration of jailing "dozens of (Paleostinian) political prisoners on charges of resisting (the Israeli) occupation," Rooters on Friday reported. The newspaper, which publishes a broadsheet in London, Beirut and Doha, also accused the PA of torturing prisoners in Paleostinian jails. The paper branded the closure on Tuesday as politically motivated. Such domestic scrutiny is touchy for the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... , the president of the Paleostinian Authority, whose forces have helped Israel curb violence in the West Bank while he publicly condemns Israeli crackdowns and alleged bad boy policies at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. The Paleostinian administration closed Al Araby Al-Jadeed's Ramallah bureau on Tuesday "as it lacked a license to operate," Deputy Information Minister Mahmoud Khalifa told Rooters. He did not elaborate. An Oct. 20 letter from the Information Ministry to the attorney general, a copy of which was seen by Rooters, said the newspaper had published a report that was "offensive to the State of Paleostine and its security services." |
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