Monthly Archives: March 2003

Inside UNRWA: Special Investigative Report

UNRWA, founded as a humanitarian agency, has subordinated its role as a service provider to a political agenda: It is the only UN agency dedicated exclusively to one group of refugees and establishes its own...

Previous Articles on UNRWA

The Refugee Dilemma: A Day in the UNRWA Arab Refugee Camps by Shawn Cohen "40 Minutes in Palestine" by Michael Cohen Commonly Held Assumptions: Myth of a Demilitarized Palestinian State by David Bedein Why is the Shuafat Refugee Camp Seething? by...

Constitution of the State of Palestine – Third Draft

The executive committee of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, having renewed the instructions of the Palestinian National Council for the establishment of a special committee to prepare the Constitution of the State of Palestine, the...

Israel Media Overview: Analysis of How Israel Prepares for the War with Iraq

What Are We Waiting For Yedioth Ahronoth (p. 1) by Alex Fishman (news analysis) -- The precise timing will be whispered by President Bush into Arik Sharon's ear only. But it really doesn't matter. The...

Abu Mazen: More Radical Than Arafat

According to Yossi Beilin (Yediot Aharonot, March 11), the political "pragmatist" Abu Mazen, who "declares everywhere that he has foregone his dream of returning to his birthplace Safed," offers the last chance for a...

Abu Mazen Sources

(1) Mahmoud Abbas (abu Mazen) In 1983, in an early public example of denial from an indigenous Middle Eastern source, a Palestinian named Mahmoud Abbas (also known as Abu Mazen) wrote The Other Side: The...

A Review of “Doodling for Saddam: The Use of Cartoons in Palestinian Newspaper to...

The Palestinian Authority is inciting its citizens against America, and the publication of anti-American sentiments in the government-controlled press proves it, an informed critic said here. David Bedein, bureau chief of the Israel Resource News...

Doodling for Saddam

Section I: Introduction The Palestinian Authority, taking a lesson from authoritarian regimes, uses its media to mobilize support for the ruling class and its war against Israel. Since 1994, PA Chairman Yasser Arafat has increasingly...

When Saddam Hussein was a US Ally

Newly released documents reveal U.S. talk of regime change in the early 1980s - except then it was language condemning Iran for attempting to overthrow the government in Baghdad. In an interview Tuesday with the...