Daily Archives: March 25, 2005

A Security Error of Historical Magnitude

Strategic Assessment Volume 7, No. 3, December 2004 Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, Tel Aviv University The Aims of the Disengagement Plan On April 18, 2004, the Israeli government issued a general outline of its proposed unilateral disengagement...

Abbas Expected to Push for Direct US Aid Following Congressional Setback

Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, on his upcoming visit to Washington, is likely to raise with congressional leaders the recent US foreign aid package that forbade direct assistance to the Palestinian Authority. The legislation, which...

Israel Can’t Use US Law Enforcement Equipment to Violate Human Rights

This week, at Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon, in southern Israel, the Israel Defence Forces will conduct an exercise to conduct a "dry run" to practice bringing dead and wounded Jewish Israeli residents to the...

The Myth of the “Settlement Bloc Assurance”

This week, the Israeli public has come to learn that President George W. Bush never promised Ariel Sharon that the US government would support the retention of settlement blocs in Judea and Samaria. Sharon was...

Sharon’s 10 premises for his withdrawal plan should be questioned

1. "The successful withdrawal from Southern Lebanon is a precedent for everything that will take place in Gaza and Northern Samaria after the withdrawal from these areas". Deputy prime minister, Minister Ehud Olmert, said in...