Monthly Archives: April 2002

Shiri Sheffi: “I Pushed the Terrorist and Saw Danielle’s Last Breaths”

"The terrorist stood in the bedroom doorway and started shooting at us. I ran to him, pushed him out, locked the door and got under the bed with the children. And then I saw...

The Eyes of a Five-Year-Old Girl

What does a five-year-old girl say to a uniformed adult who enters her room abruptly? What does she think, innocent as she is, of an unknown man who comes armed into her nursery on...

US AID Sponsor of PLO Propaganda Agencies to be Exposed in Washington

The US House of Representatives International Relations Committee has received an unpublished report of US foreign aid allocations to organizations that operate inside the Palestinian National Authority and in Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem. A member...

Friends of the CIA? – The Palestinian Militias

On a visit to Washington a year ago, Palestinian security chief Jibril Rajoub proudly showed off an armor-plated limousine that he said the Central Intelligence Agency "always provides me when I am here." Last...

How Reporters were Forced to Downgrade the Report of a “Massacre.”

After two weeks of screaming headlines that proclaimed "Massacre in Jenin!", the news story from Jenin is slowly emerging. This follows the decision of the IDF to allow representatives of the Israeli and foreign...

The Powell Visit: Israeli Press Reportage of a Disaster

-- To the question of what repercussions the failure of Secretary of State Colin Powell's mediation mission will have, the Palestinians respond with a single word: a "catastrophe" Officials close to Sharon said: "True, it...

The Iraqi Factor in the Powell Visit

Part of Powell's efforts to attain a cease-fire are an American performance meant to neutralize pressure by the Arab countries and Europe on the US to use all its power to stop the mounting...

The Battle in Jenin: An Assessment

The battle for the UNRWA Jenin refugee camp ended yesterday morning. Seven days of fighting -- among the hardest the IDF has known in recent years -- ended with 36 wanted men who laid...

If the IDF Withdraws, Will the Tanzim Enter?

Arafat, in his besieged bureau, continues to work. It's important to him to display a sight of a working PA, someone to talk to. Mohammed Dahlan and Mohammed Rashid are in Ramallah, outside the...

Survivors of the SS St Louis Finally “Dock in Jerusalem”

This year, just before Holocaust Remembrance day, I had the honor to meet a group of survivors from the ill-fated S.S. St. Louis ship which embarked from Hamburg on May 23rd, 1939 carrying close...