Monthly Archives: May 1998

Head of Fatah Youth, Hakim Awad, on Weapons Training

IMRA interviewed Hakim Awad, the head of Fatah Youth in the West Bank and Gaza, in Hebrew and English, on May 24: IMRA: It was reported that last Thursday a group of Fatah Youth completed...

Minister of Defense Office – No Specifics on Compliance

IMRA asked Minister of Defense Media Coordinator Avi Benayahu's office the following question: In today's Cabinet Communique, the Minister of Defense said "Israeli society is now confident that there exist interim stations in the ...

Let Their People Go

YC, a healthy yet distraught young man recently showed up at my office. We all hear horror stories of the trials and tribulations of new immigrants. We have all experienced these stories in our own lives. However,...

The Telltale Silence of the Post-Oslo Palestinian Press

(Lecture for the conference: "A 21st century Dialogue: Media's Dark Age?" Athens, 24th - 28th May 1998, organized by "Women for Mutual Security") The Palestinian Authority oppresses its people and intimidates its press. In what...

NAKBA: The Palestinian Arabs Miss Their Opportunity…

As Israel celebrated its fiftieth anniversary with appropriate pomp and circumstance, the new Palestine Authority, the entity that rules all of the Palestinian Arab population in Gaza and 95% of their population on the...

PALESTINE: 50 Years of Occupation – Call For Action

In The Name of Allah, The Most Merciful The Mercy-Giving Islamic Association For Palestine (IAP) P. O. Box 74353 Dallas, Texas 75374 Tel: (+97-2) 669-9595 Fax: (+97-2) 669-9597 E-mail: info@iap.org Homepage: www.iap.org/50years "Glory to (Allah) who did take his servant for...

PA Ministry of Information on Right of Return

IMRA interviewed Omar Bessisso, Head of Relations and External Media Department in the Palestinian Authority Ministry of Information, in English, on May 14, 1998: IMRA: What do you see as the central message of the...

Marwan Barghouti: Blow Up Settlements, No Deal on Jerusalem

IMRA interviewed Marwan Barghouti the head of Fatah West Bank in English, on May 17, 1998. Barghouti is also a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council. IMRA: Before the "Nakba" march last Thursday, the Palestinian...

The Unclean Side of Daimler-Benz

West Lafayette, Indiana, May 17, 1998. I speak for all those who can no longer speak for themselves. I speak for those endless railway cars of Jewish slave laborers whose seemingly inexhaustible supply in...

When the Perceived Security Interests of Israel and the US Clash

There are times when the perceived security interests of the US and Israel clash. Yet every time that American and Israeli security interests do not coincide, people seem surprised. In 1984, former New York Times...