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Monthly Archives: May 1999
Why Ehud Barak Did Not Visit the Etzion Settlements
On Thursday, May 13, 1999, Ehud Barak had scheduled to the Etzion communities, south of Bethlehem, a settlement area that had once been thought to lie within Israel's national consensus.
However, on Sunday, May 9th,...
The Revival of UN Resolution #181
Resolution 181's Revival
In the May 9, 1999, edition of Al-Ayyam, Journalist Tawfiq Abu Bakr reported on the Palestinian Central Council meetings that discussed Palestinian measures on May 4th 1999:
"Minister Nabil Sha'ath said... that...
Letter to the World from a reporter in Jerusalem, June 1967
The Westinghouse Radio correspondent in Israel in 1967 - the first foreign correspondent to report Israel's capture of the Temple Mount during the 1967 war, when he was stationed on the roof of the...
Arafat-appointed Cleric Delivers a Sermon at Al Aksa Mosque
"... What interests us as Moslems is the Moslem religious edict concerning the Palestinian problem. Our position is firm and will not change. All of Moslem Palestine remains one indivisible unit that cannot be...
Official Fatah Website: Clinton Letter Not Balfour Declaration – 181 & 194 Basis
The following editoral from the official Fatah website www.fateh.org/e_editor/99/300499.htm has several important statements:
1. The Clinton letter is not a 'Balfour Declaration'.
2. Rather than 242 and 338, the PLO will base future demands on 181...
Palestinian Reflections on the Kosovo Crisis
As a Palestinian who was born a quarter of a century after and spared the Nakba (catastrophe) of 1948 that galvanized Palestine and sent most of our Palestinian people then fleeing to nearby later-hostile...
