Monthly Archives: February 2002

The great increase in suicide attacks in the course of this past year sparked a debate in the Arab and Moslem world on the position of Islamic religious law toward the issue of self-sacrifice...

A Palestinian resident of Jerusalem is suing the Palestinian Authority and the commander of the Preventive Security Service, Jibril Rajoub, for NIS 10 million. In a suit filed at the Jerusalem District Court, he...

The Israeli Ministry of Public Security has hired a team of Arabic speaking journalists to review the vast computer systems and documents that were seized at the PLO's Orient House last summer. The results...

In late October, 2000, US president Clinton appointed an international investigation commission to investigate the causes of the rioting in Israel, naming an Arab American and former US Senator, George Mitchell, as its chairman. Mitchell...

US Response to PA Bush: We won't replace Arafat and we won't close PLO offices Yedioth Ahronoth (p. 4) by Shimon Shiffer -- The US does not plan to close the PLO offices in Washington and...

Motivated Reporting of Science and Medicine What is Used in the News What It Pretends To Be quotes data (measures, scores) eye witness report professional assessment, opinion by-stander accounts statistical verification opinion of interested parties expert objective judgment getting the...

Writing in the Jerusalem Post on February 7, 2002, Henry Siegman, U.S. Council of Foreign Affairs senior fellow and former American Jewish Congress President, enthusiastically recalls and invokes President Eisenhower's declaration"... without equivocation that...

Dr. Aaron Lerner recently noted that Ha'aretz Correspondent Amir Oren reported in his weekly column in today's Hebrew edition of Ha'aretz that Edward Abington, who was the United States consul general in Jerusalem until...

The Israeli-Palestinian Bereaved Families' Forum For Peace headed by Yitzhak Frankenthal has stepped up its ad campaign with a new series of full color newspaper and billboard ads "Lebanon 1982. The Palestinian Authority 2002....

Investigative reporter Yoav Yitzchak report in the February 7th issue of Ma'ariv that former Labor Party MK Yossi Beilin is drawing an annual salary of NIS 350,000 - NIS 400,000 from The Economic Cooperation...