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“Calm” on Verge of Explosion

The quiet along the border with Egypt was violated yesterday once again. An IDF NCO who serves with the Engineering Corps was severely injured...

Israeli City Prepares for Missile Attacks

TEL AVIV -- Israel's military has been bracing for Palestinian missile attacks on a major southern city. Israeli officials said the military has assessed...

Palestinians say Abbas Wrong –

The Israel Broadcasting Corporation's Voice of Israel Radio Arab Affairs Correspondent Avi Yissakharov reported this afternoon that PA head Mahmoud Abbas claimed in a...

Peres’s Peace Technology Fund Folds

www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=905642 The Yediot Ahronot Hebrew daily reports that the Peace Technology investment fund, founded to invest in projects in the Palestinian Authority (PA) has discontinued...

Israel’s Suicidal Policy

The movement within Israel to hold a referendum on Prime Minister Sharon's "Disengagement" plan has fizzled now that the Knesset has voted solidly against...

Knesset Committee Seeks Further Information About Peres’s Palestinian Authority Investments

JERUSALEM - The ethics committee of Israel's Parliament, or Knesset, requested last month that a private investigative group provide more information about accusations of...

When World Leaders Forget that the US Congress Must Foot the Bill

While the Bush-Sharon Summit focused on mutual threats (e.g. Iran and Islamic terrorism), it has highlighted a few basic misunderstandings - in Israel -...

Consequences Ignored by Israeli Government?

The movement within Israel to hold a referendum on Prime Minister Sharon's "Disengagement" plan has fizzled now that the Knesset has voted solidly against...

A Strategic Assessment

This piece assesses the implications of the Sharon government's success last week in pushing through its Gaza withdrawal plan, in terms of historically unprecedented...

Lack of a U.S. Response to the Planned Executions of “Collaborators” at the Order...

This much seems clear: Palestinian Authority executions of "collaborators" are scheduled to take place shortly. The full particulars are difficult to verify. On February 17,...