David Bedein
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...
An Interactive Critique of Jerusalem Post Editor Jeff Barak’s Interview with Yassir Arafat
On Friday, November 13, 1998, the editor of the Jerusalem Post, Mr. Jeff Barak, condcuted an interview with Yassir Arafat. The article was entitled...
Bombs in Machaneh Yehudah and American Assuarances
The car bomb that exploded in Jerusalem's bustling Machane Yehudah marketplace on Friday morning found me in the city of Hebron, now under the...
Brinkmanship on a Lame Duck Plantation
I spent the good part of a week covering the middle east talks at the Wye Plantation, on the Eastern shores of the Chesapeake...
Why is the Shuafat Refugee Camp Seething?
At a time when the issue of Palestinian refugees surfaces on the agenda of the peace process, a visit to the one Palestinian refugee...
A New Exodus . . . of Traditional Orthodox Jews from Jerusalem? Am I...
As I write this article, I have preferred not to use the term "haredi" to describe traditional Orthodox Jews, since the term "haredi" conveys...
Eyewitness to the Oslo “Reunion”
On August 24, I flew to the Holmenkollin Park Hotel in Oslo, Norway, to cover a hastily organized "fifth anniversary" conference that was held...