PCG Quoting Ma'an News Agency

Here is PCG quoting from Ma'an News Agency, a Palestinian media outlet based in Bethlehem. PCG quoted Ma'an News Agency in thirteen articles including some written by Stephen Flurry, Brad MacDonald, Ron Fraser, Joel Hilliker and Richard Palmer. Three articles in 2007. Two articles in 2008. Six articles in 2009. Once in 2010. And once in 2016. Three times links are provided to Ma'an News Agency articles in PCG's writings.

Unsurprisingly PCG's writers only quote Ma'an News Agency to reinforce PCG's dogmas regarding their false prophecies concerning the Holy Land. There is a lot of information provided by Ma'an News Agency which contradicts PCG's view regarding events in the Holy Land or present perspectives that contradict PCG's views. This shows once again PCG's bias regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Already, the Palestinian minister of information, Riad Maliki, told the Ma’an News Agency that now that he had “succeeded in returning part of them,” the Palestinian government will pursue negotiations with the Israeli government to return another 18,000 Palestinian refugees from Iraq. (Olmert Opens Door for Palestinian Right of Return, August 3, 2007.)

On September 30, more than 80 Palestinians, including terrorists wanted by Israel, crossed into the Gaza Strip from Egypt, according to Hamas and Israeli officials. The Palestinian news agency Maan reported that Egypt allowed 30 or so more Palestinians through the Rafah crossing into the Gaza Strip October 9.
The Palestinians who have crossed the Egypt-Gaza border in the past two weeks include members of the military wings of both Hamas and the terrorist group Islamic Jihad, as well as two Hamas legislators. Security sources say that some have received extensive military training in Iran and Syria. Some of the other terrorists had been abroad seeking medical treatment after fighting in the second intifada, according to Maan. (Egypt Facilitates Palestinian Terrorists’ Return to Israel, October 11, 2007.)

In an interview with the Palestinian-operated Ma’an News Agency on September 20, Ahmed Yousef, who advises Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, said Hamas was engaged in secret discussions with Abbas’s Fatah movement aimed at reconciling the differences between the two estranged parties. A few weeks later, Ma’an reported that 25 Fatah leaders in the West Bank and in Gaza wanted to “hold talks with Hamas to end the current impasse” (October 16). (Stephen Flurry, Can This Man Save Israel?, November-December 2007.)

A few Middle Eastern news sites, however, reported the story as it happened. According to the Palestinian news agency Ma’an,

Egyptian riot police used water cannons and clubs to suppress a surging crowd of demonstrators. … A number of women lost consciousness in the ensuing violence. The security forces arrested the women, using dogs to break up the crowd. …
Crowds of women gathered at Rafah crossing on Tuesday morning in a demonstration organized by Change and Reform, the Hamas bloc in the Palestinian Legislative Council. (Stephen Flurry, Another Hamas Victory in the Propaganda War, January 25, 2008.)

 The Palestinian news agency Ma’an reports Mughrabi was a member of Hamas. Israeli police said he had no criminal record, and there is nothing to indicate this attack was pre-planned. Mughrabi was not a known terrorist. But, filled with Hamas’s explosive ideologies, he was a time bomb waiting to explode. All it took was the right catalyst, which in this case was his cousin rejecting his hand in marriage, and he quickly became an enraged terrorist prepared to use Israeli soldiers and citizens as an outlet for his anger. How many other Mughrabis are there in Jerusalem? (Stephen Flurry, Jerusalem: Palestinian Slams Car Into Israeli Soldiers, September 23, 2008.)

On Wednesday night, according to Ma’an News Agency, a Fatah parliamentarian and an aide to Mahmoud Abbas met with a Hamas delegation in Cairo to discuss the Gaza ceasefire and reconstruction, the politically motivated arrests and torturous tactics employed by both factions, the Palestinian media incitement and the outcome of the Israeli election. These talks were held in advance of a more comprehensive dialogue to be held between both parties later this month. Memri reported that both sides have already agreed to stop the media war. (Stephen Flurry, Israel Votes for Security, February 13, 2009.)

Fatah and Hamas to Unify? 

Fatah and Hamas leaders have reached “an agreement in principle” that will lead to joint leadership of the Palestinian Authority, according to the Bethlehem-based Ma’an news agency. They plan to form a joint government until elections take place. The two terrorist groups also agreed to a prisoner exchange between them.
Representatives from Hamas and Fatah met in Cairo to end the two years of disunity within the Palestinian Authority. The two groups also agreed to stop all media attacks against each other, according to an aide to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. (Joel Hilliker and Brad MacDonald, The Weekend Web, March 1, 2009.)

The next day, a spokesman from Hamas’s military wing delivered a prophetically electrifying response to Israel’s efforts to defend itself against illegal Arab intrusions. Hamas official Abu Ubayda “threatened Israel of an ‘explosion’ if it continues to consolidate control of Jerusalem,” the Ma’an News Agency reported. Ubayda also warned that “the Judaization of Jerusalem and threat to the iconic al-Aqsa Mosque could provoke reprisals.”
Jerusalem’s cobbled streets are rumbling, tension is mounting, war is brewing. This is sobering. But it is also incredibly exciting. (Brad MacDonald, Jerusalem: Your Thermometer for Measuring Crises, April 16, 2009)

The next day, a spokesman from Hamas’s military wing, Abu Ubayda, “threatened Israel of an ‘explosion’ if it continues to consolidate control of Jerusalem,” the Maan News Agency reported. Watch for tensions between Jews and Palestinians in Jerusalem to increase. (The Week in Review, April 18, 2009.)

The next day, a spokesman from Hamas’s military wing delivered a prophetically electrifying response to Israel’s efforts to defend itself against illegal Arab intrusions. Hamas official Abu Ubayda “threatened Israel of an ‘explosion’ if it continues to consolidate control of Jerusalem,” the Ma’an News Agency reported. Ubayda also warned that “the Judaization of Jerusalem and threat to the iconic al-Aqsa Mosque could provoke reprisals.”
Jerusalem’s cobbled streets are rumbling, tension is mounting, war is brewing. This is sobering. But it is also incredibly exciting. (Stephen Flurry and Brad MacDonald, What Will Trigger the Next World War?, July 2009.)

Fatah’s relationship with Iran was also on the congress’s agenda. A draft leaked before the conference stated, “We must work toward opening a strategic channel to Iran.” In July, the Palestinian Authority and Iran held their first-ever high-level meeting. Fatah’s Jerusalem affairs liaison openly called for a stronger relationship with Iran three days before the Fatah conference in comments to Ma’an News Agency. (Richard Palmer, ‘Moderation’ in the Middle East, October 2009.)

“‘President Mahmoud Abbas attended the funeral, reciting passages of the Koran in [Amin] Al-Hindi’s honor,’ the Palestinian news agency Ma’an reported. It quoted top Fatah official Zakariah Al-Agha as calling Al-Hindi a ‘patriotic leader’ and a ‘martyr.’ ‘Fatah sources said Al-Hindi was given the homage befitting a hero both in the West Bank and Gaza, said the Gulf News of Dubai’” (cnsnews.com, August 20). (Ron Fraser, Why the Mideast Peace Talks Will Fail—Again, August 23, 2010.)

In al-Sabireen, Iran has found a group willing to wipe out the “Zionist entity” and replace it with an Islamist empire. Its leader told Palestinian news agency Ma’an that the group is “an armed branch whose goal it is to wage war on the Israeli occupation everywhere.”(WorldWatch, April 2016.)