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PA Leadership Calls for Continuing the Intifada
Arab Action Expected
Speaking to a conference in Tunis, PA Chairman Yasir Arafat said: "Just as the Palestinian and Tunisian blood mixed at Hamam al-Shat so will the Palestinian blood mix with the Arab...
B’Tselem: Press Release (+IMRA critique) “Even in Time of War Not All Is
of the B'Tselem Human Rights Report Raises Questions about credibility.
1. Reading this press release it would appear that B'Tselem considers the throwing of rocks, steel rods and fire bombs to fall within the...
The Killing of a 12 Year Old Child: Another Perspective
On Sept. 30, 2000, the news agency Agence France Presse had a cameraman filming during an exchange of gunfire between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian gunmen/rioters. The cameraman focused in tightly on a father and...
When Mark Twain visited Joseph’s Tomb
Excerpt: "Innocents Abroad" by Mark Twain
EXCURSION TO THE HOLY LAND, EGYPT, THE CRIMEA, GREECE, AND INTERMEDIATE POINTS OF INTEREST. BROOKLYN, February 1st, 1867:
CHAPTER XLVII.
Joseph became rich, distinguished, powerful -- as the Bible expresses it,...
When the ADL Went Soft on Arafat’s Textbooks
In September, 2000, Abraham Foxman, the national director of the Anti Defamation League(ADL), led a delegation of donors to dedicate a new ADL office in Jerusalem, and then meet with parties to the sensitive...
Arafat in Amman: No Need to Stop the Fighting
JERUSALEM -- Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat arrived in Amman in a better mood than usual.
Arafat kissed both cheeks of Jordan's King Abdullah and then pulled the monarch toward him and kissed his...
Did Major General Yaakov Or Fool Himself or Did the Israeli Government Fool Itself...
Major General Yaakov Or, the coordinator of government activities in the territories, has invested the last three-and-a-half years in slowly and carefully building up a broad network of contacts with the Palestinian Authority. Or...
Text of Letter Sent by Likud Leader Ariel Sharon to US Sec’y of State...
Her Excellency Mrs. Madelaine Allbright Secretary of State The State Dept. Washington DC.
Monday October 2, 20000
Dear Secretarv Allbright:
I deeply regret, and I find it totally unacceptable that your spokesman was quick to make a...
Sending children to die on the front-line of battle. From Golda to Gaza
"We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children"- GOLDA MEIR, 1972
During my first year in Israel, 30 years ago, Golda Meir was the Prime Minister. I remember the affection that I...
Has the Israeli human rights community abandoned human rights in favor of political expediency?
A commitment to human rights and civil liberties includes an inherent even if unwritten oath to uphold the principles of human dignity, regardless of any political or ethnic considerations.
For example, in 1992, in the...
