The New PA/Hamas Cairo Agreement: Authorization for Terror Against Israel

I read the Arabic text of the "Cairo statement"... The best man is Egypt. The happy couple are Abu Mazen on the one hand, and Hamas and the other extremist Palestinian organizations on the...

List of Wanted Suspects Submitted by Israel to the Palestinian Authority Found its Way...

The list of wanted men that Israel submitted to the Palestinian security forces quickly found its way into the hands of the wanted men themselves. Instead of supervising the wanted men and disarming them-which...

The Palestinian “Temporary Cease-Fire”: A Definition of Terms

The election of Mahmud Abbas (Abu Mazen)...has brought about a change in the Palestinian Authority's policy on continuing the "armed intifada." At the same time, the paramount interest of Hamas and Islamic Jihad is...

Talking Peace and Executing Those Who Cooperate With Israel

Israel believed that Abu Mazen's election marked a new attitude in the Palestinian Authority towards human rights, but it appears that with regard to those who cooperate with Israel, the attitude is the same...

Islamic Jihad Plan to Fire Rockets at Afula

This week Islamic Jihad was in the headlines and not only because of the terror attack at the Tel Aviv nightclub on Friday night. ... Terror attacks planned by the organization that were no less...

War on Terror in West Bank “NOT SERIOUS”

Israeli Security officials today blamed the Palestinian Authority and its leader, Abu Mazen, for not fighting terror in the West Bank. This is unlike the situation in the Gaza Strip, where a considerable drop...

Blair, the Palestinians’ Friend

British Prime Minister Tony Blair is an enthusiastic supporter of the Palestinians. Moreover, in order to repel the criticism aired against him from within his own party ranks about his too cozy relationship with...

Policy Statements and Actions of PA Chair Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen)

GAZA, February 20, 2005(IPC+ Al-Ayam)- The Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, renowned as "Abu Mazen" stated on Saturday that he is seeking to clinch a deal for cease fire with the armed resistance factions not to...

Will the Real mahmoud Abbas/Abu Mazen Please Stand Up??

JERUSALEM, Israel For at least 12 hours after the murderous terror attack on the nightclub in Tel Aviv last weekend, Sawt Felasteen, Voice of Palestine radio, the official voice of Mahmoud Abbas, told its listeners...

Beneath the Moderate Veneer

"If anyone deserves to be given a chance, this is the guy." So declared Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, referring to PA Chair Mahmoud Abbas (aka Abu Mazen), in an address just this past...