Barak’s “Red Line” Coalition

Quotes from text: "There are enough hawks in Israel's emerging coalition -- including perhaps Barak -- to insure that no withdrawal from occupied south Lebanon is likely to be forthcoming without firm Syrian or international...

Egyptian Al-Ahram: Peace Only if ’48 Refugees Return Home

Full Text: Even if the statement made by US President Bill Clinton last week that millions of Palestinian refugees "should be given the freedom to settle wherever they want to" was a "slip of the...

Clinton and the Right of Return

On July 1, 1999, President Clinton stated that American policy was that Palestinians have a right to live "wherever they would like to live". Clinton's policy statement resounded through the Palestinian media and the United...

Interview with Rabbi Arik Asherman, director of the RABBIS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

Allan: Tell me a little about yourself. Asherman: Sure, my name is Rabbi Arik Asherman. I'm the executive director of Rabbi's for Human Rights. I also, on a part time basis am the Rabbi for...

Journalist Pressured not to Report Jewish Dimension of Balkan War

Budapest, Hungary - I'm a journalist and a Jew, but it was only recently that I became a Jewish journalist. Not by choice, mind you. It was thrust upon me. And larded with Jewish guilt,...

Palestinian Reflections on the Kosovo Crisis

As a Palestinian who was born a quarter of a century after and spared the Nakba (catastrophe) of 1948 that galvanized Palestine and sent most of our Palestinian people then fleeing to nearby later-hostile...

Official Fatah Website: Clinton Letter Not Balfour Declaration – 181 & 194 Basis

The following editoral from the official Fatah website www.fateh.org/e_editor/99/300499.htm has several important statements: 1. The Clinton letter is not a 'Balfour Declaration'. 2. Rather than 242 and 338, the PLO will base future demands on 181...

Letter to the World from a reporter in Jerusalem, June 1967

The Westinghouse Radio correspondent in Israel in 1967 - the first foreign correspondent to report Israel's capture of the Temple Mount during the 1967 war, when he was stationed on the roof of the...

The Revival of UN Resolution #181

Resolution 181's Revival In the May 9, 1999, edition of Al-Ayyam, Journalist Tawfiq Abu Bakr reported on the Palestinian Central Council meetings that discussed Palestinian measures on May 4th 1999: "Minister Nabil Sha'ath said... that...

Shimon Peres: Overthrow Saddam. Mideast’s Villain: It’s Not Islam; It’s Saddam

President Clinton deserves every praise for "Desert Fox." Yet it, too, did not resolve the Iraqi dilemma: Iraq is still controlled by a pathological despot who initiated bloody battles with his neighbors (Iran in...