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...
The Bin Laden Palestinian Arab Connection
Mohammed Bin Laden, Osama's father, was a Saudi contractor who specialized in renovating mosques.
When it was decided to renovate the el-Aksa mosque, he was sent to Jerusalem by the Saudi king to help with...
President Arafat: “Israel continues to violate International Legitimacy Resolutions”
Arafat: "Israel continues to violate the International Legitimacy Resolutions"
Doha/Qatar October 10th Wafa (Official Palestine News Agency), President Yasser Arafat emphasized today, the importance of materializing the alert status of the International community and...
Sharon’s Statement on Czechoslovakia: Background
On Thursday,German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer telephoned Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Fischer was excited, and told Sharon: "I spoke with Bashar Assad. He told me that Syria has always been against terror. You have...
UNRWA Director Peter Hansen Opposes Solving Palestinian Refugee Problem
Full Text: UNRWA feels the pinch of the siege
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency has for the past 51 years afforded support for the Palestinian people, moving its headquarters from Geneva to Gaza...
U.S. Proposes Removing Syria From Terror List
U.S. Proposes Removing Syria from Terror List
WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration has proposed removing Damascus from the State Department's list of terrorist sponsors if Syria joins a U.S.-led coalition against Saudi billionaire fugitive...
A Test of Credibility
The "Rabbis for Human Rights" continue their cooperation with Palestinians on another level. As Rabbis, so director Rabbi Arik Ascherman, they work for a greater force than the State of Israel. The existence of...
The JTA Slant That Needs Balance: Reflecting on the Writings of JTA Bureau Chief,...
On Erev Yom Kippur, perhaps the time has come for the JTA, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that is funded in part by the Jewish Federations, to reconsider its ideological orientation and to allow for...
A Moral Victory in Durban
THE FORUM of non-governmental organizations or NGOs at the World Conference Against Racism can be considered a turning point in the history of the global human rights movement - not because of the victory...
Israel Foreign Minister Shimon Peres: Oslo Process Cannot be Erased
The Oslo Process was a moral and a Jewish choice. The late Yitzhak Rabin and I went to Oslo for moral reasons: not because we had no choice, not out of weakness, but with...