Monthly Archives: January 2007

"Today more than any other day, we must hold fast to our Palestinian principles, and we will not accept a state with temporary borders," said Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, adding, "We will not give up one grain of [land] in Jerusalem." Referring to Palestinian refugees, Abbas said, "We send our greetings to our brothers in Jordan, in Syria, in Lebanon," adding, "our hearts and our hands are open to all Palestinians."

I begin with a speech that PA President Mahmoud Abbas gave last Thursday, on the cusp of the arrival of Sec. Rice to this area. He spoke at a rally in Ramallah; the occasion...

When Karen AbuZayd succeeded Peter Hansen as Secretary-General in June 2005, Israelis who interfaced with her (from the Foreign Ministry and relevant offices of the IDF) expressed hopes that her style of functioning would...

The question remains, why Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas' s militant anti-Israel speech this week was not paid attention to, as reported in the here on January 11th, 2007: http://ibn.worldmedianetworks.com/bin/content.cgi?ID=2850&q=1 The reason, according to Palestinian Arabic language...

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is promoting a new initiative to establish a temporary, sovereign and armed Palestinian state Rice will try to promote her initiative soon through extensive international shuttle diplomacy, which...

Rice's initiative will circumvent the first step of the Middle East Road map that she herself pioneered in May 2003. That first step required that the leaders of the Palestinian Authority must first disband and disarm all Palestinian terrorist groups - some of which remain under the command of and loyalty to Mahmoud Abbas.

(video footage available from the Center for Near East Policy Research. policyresearchi@yahoo.com ) "Our rifles, all our rifles are aimed at The Occupation," declared Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas today (January 11) in a major...

--Iran Funding More Terror Groups--Study: Ideological Differences Between Fatah And Hamas Diminish

Yesterday a report from a high ranking officer in the Southern Command was made public: Palestinians released in prisoner exchanges, he said, "always return to terrorism." Always. That's pretty clear, and pretty direct as...

--Michael Ledeen, a former Pentagon official, said the Quds Force documents have left U.S. intelligence officials flabbergasted. Ledeen said the documents included charts that contain the links between Shiite and Sunni groups with Iran. "It seems that our misnamed Intelligence community had grossly underestimated the sophistication and the enormity of the Iranian war campaign," Ledeen said--Russian Anti-Aircraft Missiles For Iran