Monthly Archives: August 2003

PA Teenager’s Summer camp Named for Teenage Suicide Bomber

Ayyat al-Akhras - a 17 year-old girl - was the youngest child suicide bomber, murdering 2 Israelis in a Jerusalem supermarket on March 29, 2002. The PA has named a children's summer camp in...

Israel Cabinet Meets to Discuss Concerns about Mega-Terror attacks

Hudna or no hudna, yesterday the security cabinet discussed possible "mega-terror attack" scenarios. The director of the Anti-terrorism Headquarters, Danny Arditi, presented a staff paper prepared at the Prime Ministers Office which included preparations for...

A Critique of the “Nusseibeh-Ayalon” Campaign

Sari Nusseibeh's and Ami Ayalon's declaration of principles is strewn with potholes and political pitfalls. For example, the fiction of "two states for two peoples," that is mentioned in the sense that in the...

Another Critique of the “Nusseibeh-Ayalon” Campaign: Discrepancies in the Hebrew and Arabic versions…

I've have written extensively about Ami Ayalon and Sari Nusseibeh campaign HaMifkad HaLeumi ("THE NATIONAL TRUST) to promote support from Israelis and Palestinians for the plan that they have created. According to their Israeli...

Israel Without Apology

Three decades ago, I was a Berkeley New Leftist with a political and personal problem. I had been born in Israel, and, though I didn't consider myself a Zionist, I certainly didn't want to...

Will the Jewish State Demand the Re-Arrest of a Freed Terrorist Who Advocates Terror??

Ahmad El-Sukar was the Arab terrorist responsible for the murder of 14 and maiming 70 in a Zion Square bombing, when he placed a refrigerator bomb there on July 4, 1975. I was there in...

The Palestinian Security Forces and the Second Intifada

Presentation given at the National Press Club in Washington, DC on July 24th, 2003 (Presentation hosted by the Center For Near East Policy Research and the Israel Resource News Agency) Copyright © Gal Luft Introduction In the period...

Dahlan: Rice did not discuss dismantling groups with me

No warning to dismantle militant factions www.jerusalem-times.net/article/news/details/detail.asp?id=3759 Gaza-Muhammad Dahlan, Minister for Security Affairs denied Sunday the Israeli news reports that Condoleezza Rice, US president's National Security Advisor, had told him that the grace period of...

What Would Happen If Israel Were to Use US PR Tactics in Their Information...

The American Example The prime minister's visit in Washington takes place a few days after the Bush administration taught the world a bit about delicate taste. The photographs of the corpses of Uday and Qusay,...

The Political Role of the NGO’s in Israel

One of the harshest fronts of the Arab-Israeli conflict is the information war, in which powerful non-governmental organizations (NGOs) with major influence on the international media consistently display a biased approach. The hijacking of the...