Daily Archives: August 11, 1997
Can the Orient House be Closed Down?
Last week it was reported that the Netanyahu government believes it cannot legally close down Orient House because it is a "private home". A review of the applicable law indicates that the ownership of...
Arafat, the Palestine Authority and the Hamas: A Surprising Cooperative Relationship
Almost four years ago, when Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin shook hands with Yassir Arafat, the head of the Palestine Liberation Organization, on the White House lawn most people in Israel and abroad expected...
Analysis: Reconsideration of Our Passion for PLO Statehood After Tisha B’av
The time has come to ask all those of us who had supported the concept of a Palestinian Arab state to recognize the error in our ways.
The concept of ceding a sliver of the...
The Bridge : An ecological and bio-ethics disaster
When a group of Australian athletes attempted to cross the hastily constructed bridge erected over the Yarkon river, tragedy struck. The bridge collapsed, sending tens of young people plunging into the contaminated waters of...