David Bedein
Hezbollah Takes Another Step Toward Jerusalem
Last Monday, the South Lebanon-based terrorist group Hezbollah, funded and armed by Syria and Iran, set off a roadside bomb that killed an Israeli...
King Hussein: A Security Asset – But No Friend
King Hussein of Jordan will go down in history as a security asset to the US, Great Britain, and, in his final years, to...
Letter to an Editor
The Israeli district judge's Dec. 30, 1998, decision that recognized Conservative and Reform conversions does not address itself to the divisions between the non-Orthodox...
The Scenarios of the Palestinian State in Formation
An elder statesman of Great Britain in the late eighteenth century, Sir Edmund Burke, reported that he was often asked why he would not...
The Israeli Elections
Bang! A starting gun shooting blanks. The candidates are off and running in the Israeli Knesset sweepstakes.
Nine of them have taken the field thus...
Scenario One: Commando Units in Tel Aviv
As the school year finally began this year in Israel, following the teacher's strike, Meretz MK Yossi Sarid made an appeal on the "Voice...
PLO Saddam Support and Clinton’s Middle East Credibility
Barely 72 hours after the high point of US President Bill Clinton's recent Middle East mission, when he participated in the Palestine National Council...
The Palestinian Security Services: Between Police and Army
Source: The Washington Institute for Near East Policy - Special report on "Palestinian security services: between police and army" - November, 1998.
As a result...
Why the PLO Covenant Annulment Means Little
The high point of President Bill Clinton's middle east mission - his participation in the Palestine National Council meeting where he witnessed the PNC...
US Consul Won’t Help the Boims: “We Can’t Visit Foreign Jails …”
An underlying premise of the Wye accords that were signed by the US, Israel, the Palestine Authority and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan at...