Monthly Archives: September 2000
Asking President Clinton to recall US ambassador Martin Indyk
I wish to take the unusual step of asking the President of the United States, The Honorable William Jefferson Clinton, to recall the current US Ambassador to Israel, Mr. Martin Indyk.
That is because Mr....
The “right of return”: the PLO negotiating position that stalls the process
The most significant decision of the Sept. 13th PLO central committee was barely reported: The absolute and uncompromising Palestinian position that every refugee who left Palestine in 1948 should have the "inalienable right" to...
Has the Israeli human rights community abandoned human rights in favor of political expediency?
A commitment to human rights and civil liberties includes an inherent even if unwritten oath to uphold the principles of human dignity, regardless of any political or ethnic considerations.
For example, in 1992, in the...
The first interview with Senator Lieberman in the Jewish media since his vice presidential...
In his first major interview with a Jewish newspaper since being nominated, Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Joseph Lieberman shared his opinions with the Jewish Advocate on the status of Jerusalem, American Jewry and...
Israel Not On Map in Palestinian Textbooks
RAMALLAH, West Bank, Sept. 2 “ After years of sharp debate and bitter recrimination, one of the most delicate and politically loaded documents in the Arab-Israeli dispute was unveiled today amid great ceremony“ and...
‘A’ Is for Arafat, ‘B’ Is for Bethlehem. Skip Zion.
RAMALLAH, West Bank, Sept. 7 Inside a modern, secular private school here, the first-grade boys and girls stuffed their Pokemon and Barbie backpacks into their cubbies and gathered on the blue rug for story...
Analysis of a new textbook of the Palestinian Authority
"NATIONAL EDUCATION FOR SIXTH GRADE" Published by the "Ministry of Education for the State of Palestine". presented September 2000.
. Pages 8 - 9. A GEOGRAHIC MAP SHOWS WHAT IS CURRENTLY INTERNATIONALLY DESIGNATED AS ISRAEL...