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Yearly Archives: 1998
A Day in Official Palestinian Media
Today, Faisal Al-Husseini, the Palestinian Minister for Jerusalem affairs attacked Israel's municipal elections in Jerusalem, calling Israel's rule anywhere in Jerusalem as "illegal." In addition the PLO's Fatah branch announced that they would be...
Ten Days in the Life of the Palestine Authority
Palestinians wary of Israeli ratification of Wye
The Palestinian Authority has expressed displeasure with the ratification by the Cabinet of the Wye Plantation agreement. This, despite a meeting by Israeli envoy Yitzhak Molcho with PA...
Official Media of the Palestine Authority, November 15, 1998
Excerpts from Arafat's Speech in Ramallah:
Narrator quoting Arafat: "We are building our state, piece by piece and will continue until our state is established and Holy Jerusalem is its capital. We are only a...
Official Palestine Broadcasting Corporation Radio
Nov 16, 7 a.m.
Narrator's Remarks (Youssef Mahmoud):
Today is the day of the Mihraj (celebration off Muhammad's legendary nocturnal journey from the Meccan Mosque to the Furthest Mosque, assumed by later Muslim commentaries to be...
MidEast Peace Facilitation Act
Title IV of Public Law 104-99 or the Middle East Peace Facilitation Act, passed by the US Congress on February 12, 1996 stipulates that:
"It is the sense of Congress... the PLO... must do far...
Can the Arabs Ever Use Their Oil Power Weapon Again?
The focus of the industrial West has, for many years, been drawn to the oil-bearing nations of the Middle East because they needed oil. As a repository of developed and yet to be developed...
Bombs in Machaneh Yehudah and American Assuarances
The car bomb that exploded in Jerusalem's bustling Machane Yehudah marketplace on Friday morning found me in the city of Hebron, now under the rule of the Palestine Authority, only an hour south of...
Arafat Health Scare Puts Peace Process in Jeopardy
Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian leader, is suffering from Parkinson's disease, according to a report compiled by Israeli military intelligence. He is receiving treatment for symptoms of tremor and muscular rigidity but shows no sign...
Palestinian Reactions to the Wye River Memorandum III
Revising the Charter and Security Issues
Part II, Section C, Paragraph 2, of the Wye River Memorandum, requires the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Central Council to reaffirm the January...
Al-Ahram Weekly: For the First Time, Egypt Admits Sinking the Dakar
Giving Chase to an "Enemy" Sub
by Galal Nassar
Al-Ahram Weekly 29th October - 4th November, 1998
Heading: A high military official confirmed in the presence of President Mubarak that the Egyptian navy was responsible for the...
