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Monthly Archives: August 2001
While violence rages back home, Canada may host Mideast lawmakers
Unable to stop the drift toward war in their native land, Israeli and Palestinian legislators hope to be more successful in the quieter atmosphere of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.
A Canadian parliamentary committee...
After They Have Destroyed Everything We Built”
President Arafat addressing the Arab Foreign Ministers in Cairo:ilt"
"We need a more firm stand confronting the Israelis after they have destroyed every thing we built"
Cairo, August 23rd, WAFA (Official Palestine news agency), President Yasser...
Liberating Jerusalem Again . . . And Doing it Right
A number of years ago during the early months of the first Intifada, David Krause, who was then police commissioner, briefed the commanders of police units deployed throughout Jerusalem. He ended the briefing with...
Zionist Patriotism Revived
The recent Palestinian violence has produced at least one positive result: the reawakening of Jewish patriotism, namely, Zionism. Whereas until recently people gave voice here to post-Zionist and global village ideas and said that...
Why Did Israel Close the Orient House: The Inside Story
News reports concerning the Israeli takeover of the PLO Orient House in Jerusalem focused on the Orient House as little more than a symbol of PLO presence in Jerusalem, and as a place where...
How the Official Palestinian VOICE OF PALESTINE Radio Covered the August Bombings
On the day of the massive bombing in Jerusalem--August 10, 2001--The Voice of Palestine opened its morning broadcasts at 7 a.m. with a 15-minute spotlight on Ali Joulani, the man who, 2 days earlier...
“Sending Our Son Off to War”
This week we accompanied our first born son, Noam, to the IDF army recruitment center in Jerusalem, where he was inducted into an IDF combat unit, with three months of basic training lying ahead...
The Implications: This Far and No Farther
Up until yesterday it was often said that the twentieth century ended in 1989, with the fall of the Berlin Wall. Within months the Soviet bloc disintegrated and the Cold War ended. It appeared...
General Sharon on the Ground
This week Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was reminded of an officer by the name of Amnon Schwartzburg, a member of Kibbutz Beit Alpha, whom he had recommended for a favorable citation after the paratrooper...
Taleb A-Sana MK (United Arab List) lavished praise on the terrorist attack near Tel...
Taleb A-Sana MK (United Arab List) yesterday lavished praise on the terrorist attack at the Tel Aviv Kirya in an interview with Abu Dhabi television.
"This is an attack of special quality," A-Sana said, "because...
