Appreciating the Candor of Nabil Shaath

Israel has no cause to be angry at the Palestinian Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath, who declared yesterday in Lebanon that the road map will bring the refugees from 1948 back from Beirut to Haifa....

Remarks To the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly, Regarding the Situation of Palestinian Refugees

Mr. Chairman, thank-you for the opportunity to address this report on the situation of Palestinian refugees. While Canada is only an observer in this Assembly, we have a significant interest in this issue as...

A Critique of the “Nusseibeh-Ayalon” Campaign

Sari Nusseibeh's and Ami Ayalon's declaration of principles is strewn with potholes and political pitfalls. For example, the fiction of "two states for two peoples," that is mentioned in the sense that in the...

The Palestinian Security Forces and the Second Intifada

Presentation given at the National Press Club in Washington, DC on July 24th, 2003 (Presentation hosted by the Center For Near East Policy Research and the Israel Resource News Agency) Copyright © Gal Luft Introduction In the period...

Syria, Egypt Trying To Protect Terror Groups, Israeli Lawmaker Says

Both Egypt and Syria are making efforts to protect terrorist groups and their infrastructure from the global war on terrorism, an Israeli lawmaker said here. As part of that effort, Egypt did its utmost to...

Fighting the Effort to Demand that Israel Free Murderers

The international community, concerned with strengthening the position of Palestinian Prime Minister Abu Mazen, is urging Israel to release Palestinians who have murdered Israelis. There is something terribly out of balance here. Both a lack...

What Will Occur After Three Months of the Hudna?

October 3, 2003 goes into the history books as "black Friday." At 2:00 p.m., a group of soldiers that had just finished its shift at the General staff headquarters stood on the road passing...

Smadar Haran: He Must Not Go Free

24 years have elapsed since the terrible day when Smadar Kaiser-Haran's husband and daughter were abducted and murdered by terrorists. 24 years of unrelenting pain. Smadar cannot bear the thought that one of the...

Killing KAWASME: The Ramifications

Yedioth Aharonot (June 22, 2003)(p. 2) by Roni Shaked -- Israel settled an open account yesterday with Abdullah Abed Elkader Kawasme, 35, the number one Hamas wanted man in the West Bank, who was...

“Hudna”: What We can Learn from the Koranic Tradition

Truly a "Hudna Civic"? Yedioth Aharonot (June 19, 2003)(p. 2) by Sever Plotzker -- The hudna means a temporary cessation of hostile actions among Moslem communities and/or between them and the outside world. The hudna...