Sannctifying Suicide: Analysis of the Islamic Perspective

The great increase in suicide attacks in the course of this past year sparked a debate in the Arab and Moslem world on the position of Islamic religious law toward the issue of self-sacrifice...

The US will not Break off Contact Yet it Defines it as a Terror...

US Response to PA Bush: We won't replace Arafat and we won't close PLO offices Yedioth Ahronoth (p. 4) by Shimon Shiffer -- The US does not plan to close the PLO offices in Washington and...

Israel’s Requirement For the Next Palestinian Arab Leader: Declare in Arabic, “No to the...

Details of the meetings held on February 8th between US President Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon are emerging. It is becoming increasingly clear that the Bush administration will not protest too vehemently if...

The Palestinians See a ‘Joan of Arc’

Wafa Idris, who detonated a bomb on Jaffa Street in Jerusalem two weeks ago, killing herself and an 81-year-old man, and injuring 140 people, was the first Palestinian woman to carry out a suicide...

Al Quds (Palestinian daily) Editorial Explains Palestinians Won’t Honor Security Obligations if Israel Doesn’t...

The contacts of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his foreign minister Shimon Peres with a number of high-level Palestinian officials have given the impression that the tide may be changing in the region...

EU Sponsored Israeli-Palestinian Bereaved Families’ Forum For Peace Launches Ad Campaign

The Israeli-Palestinian Bereaved Families' Forum For Peace headed by Yitzhak Frankenthal has stepped up its ad campaign with a new series of full color newspaper and billboard ads "Lebanon 1982. The Palestinian Authority 2002....

Abington: the Man Who Wrote Arafat’s Oped in the New York Times

Dr. Aaron Lerner recently noted that Ha'aretz Correspondent Amir Oren reported in his weekly column in today's Hebrew edition of Ha'aretz that Edward Abington, who was the United States consul general in Jerusalem until...

Rabbis for Human Rights Fabrications: A Critique of The “Olive Tree Campaign”

Throughout the centuries, Jews have suffered whenever a lie repeated often enough becomes believable. Fifty dedicated people were brought to Israel this week under the specious premise that tens of thousands of trees had been...

An Examination of the Work of the JMCC: The Jerusalem Media and Communications Center

When a foreign journalist arrives in Israel, according to law, he must get a press card that is certified for use in Israel from the Israel Government Press Office, located at the Beit Agron...

News Stories Inside the Palestinian Authority Not Reported Elsewhere: Accountability and the PLO

PLO representative in Washington, Hassan Abdul Rahman has kept millions of dollars for Palestinian students from abroad. He spent money to buy huge homes in the Washington area. He has a Cadillac, beautiful clothes....