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Yearly Archives: 1998
Brinkmanship on a Lame Duck Plantation
I spent the good part of a week covering the middle east talks at the Wye Plantation, on the Eastern shores of the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland, USA, in an area that is best...
Ex-Weapons Inspector Ritter: Don’t Count on Us Monitoring of Wye
Ritter is a former UN weapons inspector in Iraq.
Question: I understand you have some concerns regarding the implementation of the Wye accord?
Ritter: Yes, indeed. The accord is to be monitored by the CIA, but...
Update on Iraq: The US Suddenly Wakes Up?
An Israeli reader reported that at the Likud Central Committee meeting on the Wye accord, some members criticized the Gov't for relying on the US to enforce Palestinian compliance with the provisions on fighting...
Senior Palestinian Official: PNC Will Not Convene to Amend the Covenant
This is the first in a series of periodic updates on issues relating to Palestinian compliance with the October 23, 1998 Wye River Memorandum. This update focuses on the Palestinian obligation to amend the...
Palestinian Comments on the Wye River Memorandum
Following is a summary of the comments found in the Palestinian media regarding the treaty signed on Friday between Israel and the PLO.
Changing the Palestinian Covenant
Unlike the English version of the memorandum, according to...
A Police Chief Calls Wye Accord a Temporary Truce – Jabali Says PA Will...
Following are remarks made by Palestinian Police Chief Col. Ghazi Jabali which were broadcast on official Palestinian Authority television on October 30, 1998, one week after the signing of the Wye River Memorandum between...
Letter from UNRWA Official
David Bedein's article "Why is the Shuafat Refugee Camp Seething?" (Israel Resource Review, October 13) outlines some of the urgent problems facing refugee camp residents, but it unfairly places the blame on the wrong...
U.S. Letters of Assurance to Israel
Embassy of the United States of America
Tel Aviv
October 30, 1998
Mr. Dani Naveh
Cabinet Secretary
Office of the Prime Minister
Jerusalem
Dear Dani,
I wanted to confirm our policy on the issues of Reciprocity/Parallelism, Permanent Status Negotiations, and Prisoner Releases....
Why is the Shuafat Refugee Camp Seething?
At a time when the issue of Palestinian refugees surfaces on the agenda of the peace process, a visit to the one Palestinian refugee camp in Jerusalem can provide you with some understanding of...
Al-Ahram: Weak Clinton, Egyptian Poll, Palestinian State, PA/Israel
Crime and Punishment
by Fayza Hassan Pot Pourri, a regular columnist
Excerpts:
The numerous episodes of the Clinton saga are telling proof that Americans have not really changed in their candid, puritanical morality since the days the...
