David Bedein
Does the New PLO Entity Recognize Israel?
At a staff meeting in September 1993, our news agency, whose purpose it is to provide continuing factuql coverage for the foreign media, made...
Bombing . . for the Right of Return to Netanya
At the end of November, I lectured at a retirement home in the Israeli coastal city of Netanya, to discuss the PLO demand that...
Is It of Any Concern to the Donor Nations to the Palestinian Authority?
Peace Education Now?
While the world media descended on Israel to cover the hard fought Israel prime ministerial election campaign between dovish Labor incumbent Ehud...
Correcting the AP Wire Story Concerning Joseph’s Tomb
The AP wire story of October 8, 2000 about Joseph's tomb contains a major factual error when it raises the question as to whether...
When the ADL Went Soft on Arafat’s Textbooks
In September, 2000, Abraham Foxman, the national director of the Anti Defamation League(ADL), led a delegation of donors to dedicate a new ADL office...
Sending children to die on the front-line of battle. From Golda to Gaza
"We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children"- GOLDA MEIR, 1972
During my first year in Israel, 30 years ago, Golda Meir...
Has the Israeli human rights community abandoned human rights in favor of political expediency?
A commitment to human rights and civil liberties includes an inherent even if unwritten oath to uphold the principles of human dignity, regardless of...
The “right of return”: the PLO negotiating position that stalls the process
The most significant decision of the Sept. 13th PLO central committee was barely reported: The absolute and uncompromising Palestinian position that every refugee who...
Muhammad and Meira begin first grade
I work with a senior Palestinian TV journalist, Mustafa, who, like me, hits fifty this month and, like me, has a child, Muhammad, who...
Why Peres was defeated: the betrayal of the public trust
Over a period of six months, our news agency hired a leading financial investigations firm to monitor the financial dealings of the Peres Center...