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Syria Expected to Become Missile Exporter
Syria is building its arsenal with North Korean help and is...
Syria, Lebanon Trying to Stymie UN Help in Israeli Pullout
Lebanon and Syria are trying to stymie United Nations cooperation for an Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon.
Lebanon and Syria have set tough terms for an expanded UN peacekeeping presence in Lebanon in the wake...
Official Palestinian Authority Radio “Voice of Palestine” Dec. 13
Summary and Analysis
VOP's morning news bulletins and news-round-ups focused on "criminal" Israeli military attacks, in particularly those leading to deaths of four members of Palestinian security forces in Gaza. (Note: death toll changed throughout...
Official Palestinian Authority Voice of Palestine Radio Broadcasts: Dec. 26
Summary and Analysis
VOP returned Tuesday to very careful coverage of the Clinton proposals to the Palestinians and Israel in Washington. VOP is trying to navigate between the hard line of Abu Ala (PA Speaker...
Will the PA Move Thousands of Arab Refugees into Jerusalem?
It’s hard to find anyone these days in East Jerusalem who supports the idea of splitting the city again. Even PA representatives are opposed to a return to the situation that existed before the...
Official PA radio news – The P.B.C. VOP (Voice of Palestine) Radio: January 14th
Summary and Analysis
In its Sunday morning broadcasts, the VOP news coverage was fairly evenly divided between three subjects:
Continuing talks on final status issues, despite Palestinian views that nothing substantive is being accomplished;
Continuing coverage of...
Official PA radio news – The P.B.C. VOP (Voice of Palestine) Radio: January 20-21
Summary and Analysis
The Palestinian Authority formally said goodbye to the Clinton proposals, thanking him for his efforts, while setting its sights on achieving a detailed agreement with Israel within ten days, according to statements...
Israel Internal Security Chief Avi Dichter: ‘Israeli Arab demos prompted Intifada’
Israeli Arab demonstrations after then-opposition leader Ariel Sharon went to the Temple Mount last September prompted the Palestinian Intifada, Shin Bet Chief Avi Dichter told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee yesterday.
In his...
General Sharon on the Ground
This week Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was reminded of an officer by the name of Amnon Schwartzburg, a member of Kibbutz Beit Alpha, whom he had recommended for a favorable citation after the paratrooper...
Terrorism: How the US Ignored the Money Trail
Despite sanctions, terrorists like Osama bin Laden are able to use the international banking system to finance vast and expensive networks.
In testimony before the Senate Banking Committee last week, Michigan Sen. Carl Levin explained...