Monthly Archives: May 2003

CIA Resumes Training PLO Security Forces

A team of CIA monitors and advisers on security have arrived in Cairo, and will soon move to the Gaza Strip, senior Palestinian Authority sources told The Jerusalem Post. The team will advise the...

The “Vision of Peace” according to Hamas

I speak publicly more and more frequently about the experience my family and I have gone through since our daughter Malka Chana z"l was murdered 21 months ago in Jerusalem. It sometimes happens that...

US State Department Official William Burns

Assistant Secretary of State William Burns, under fire from conservatives for recent remarks in Jerusalem that disparaged the president and his supporters, has a history of cozying up to radical Muslims who oppose peaceful...

Arafat Remains in Charge, Says Abu Mazen

Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) said President Yasser Arafat (Abu Ammar) remains in charge despite a US and Israeli refusal to deal with him, and said his stamp of approval should precede...

Text of Powell/Rice Statement

Statement by Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/05/20030523.html The roadmap was presented to the Government of Israel with a request from the President that it respond with contributions to...

Road Map Rekindles Arab War for the “Right of Return”

"The Americans rejected one of Israel's central demands, which states that the Palestinian Arabs would agree to concede the right of return in return for Israel's recognition of a Palestinian Arab state. They also...

Skeptical About Abu Mazen

Security Establishment: "Sharon, Abu Mazen Meet, Arafat Sponsors Terror" Ma'ariv (p. 2) by Ben Caspit et al. -- On Sunday Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is to depart for the United States, where he will meet...

Why does US Sec’y of State Powell Describe the PA Islamic State Constitution as...

Following the meeting that took place between US Sec'y of State Colin Powell and PLO leader Abu Mazen, senior AP diplomatic correspondent Barry Schweid reported that US Sec'y of State Colin Powell remarked that...

Islamic Movement Targeted

Ma'ariv (p. 2) by Ami Ben-David, Ben Caspit and Amir Gilat -- Israeli officials have become concerned lately about the escalation in the activity of the Islamic Movement's northern chapter and its increasingly close...

The International Solidarity Movement (The ISM) and its Terror Connection

"Friends," begins the web site of ISM, an international movement that works against Israel in the territories. "Friends, it's great that you will be coming to join us in nonviolent, direct-action resistance to the...