David Bedein

Yesterday was Palestinian Prisoner Day, and it was marked by demonstrations throughout Palestinian Arab areas, with calls for the release of more than 1,400 Palestinians who have been convicted of murder or attempted murder.

The interview was aired several hours after an Israeli court released for publication the fact that an investigation is being conducted against Bishara.The judge said that Bishara knows what suspicions are attributed to him, but the police have to continue to examine the information gathered so far.

This would be the first time since 1999 that a U.S. defense secretary visited Israel. Gates's predecessor, Donald Rumsfeld, toured the Middle East several times, but never entered Israel.

A meeting of the crimes: Indeed, in 1936, the Mufti welcomed Hitler's deputy, Adolf Eichmann, to his office at the Supreme Islamic Council based at the Palace Hotel in the center of Jerusalem, where Eichmann kept meticulous records of his meetings with the Mufti, where the Palestinian Arab leader of that generation taught Eichmann about the philosophy of Jihad.

While U.S. Jews indeed rendered assistance to Israeli Arabs in unprecedented projects over the past two years, most of those American citizens did not pay much attention to the democratically-elected leadership of Israeli Arabs who have turned on the state of Israel from within.

Shocked by the Israeli pardons to terrorists, the Republican senator from Pennsylvania submitted an unusual request to U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft: To demand that Israel immediately extradite Hassan Salame, the No. 2 man in the Iz a Din al-Kassam Brigades, Hamas' executive wing.

Middle East Newsline has also learned that U.S. intelligence has warned against major arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Cooperation Council states. The intelligence assessment concluded that the Saudi and other GCC regimes have become increasingly unstable.