Head of Fatah Youth, Hakim Awad, on Weapons Training

IMRA interviewed Hakim Awad, the head of Fatah Youth in the West Bank and Gaza, in Hebrew and English, on May 24: IMRA: It was reported that last Thursday a group of Fatah Youth completed...

The Unclean Side of Daimler-Benz

West Lafayette, Indiana, May 17, 1998. I speak for all those who can no longer speak for themselves. I speak for those endless railway cars of Jewish slave laborers whose seemingly inexhaustible supply in...

Marwan Barghouti: Blow Up Settlements, No Deal on Jerusalem

IMRA interviewed Marwan Barghouti the head of Fatah West Bank in English, on May 17, 1998. Barghouti is also a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council. IMRA: Before the "Nakba" march last Thursday, the Palestinian...

PA Ministry of Information on Right of Return

IMRA interviewed Omar Bessisso, Head of Relations and External Media Department in the Palestinian Authority Ministry of Information, in English, on May 14, 1998: IMRA: What do you see as the central message of the...

NAKBA: The Palestinian Arabs Miss Their Opportunity…

As Israel celebrated its fiftieth anniversary with appropriate pomp and circumstance, the new Palestine Authority, the entity that rules all of the Palestinian Arab population in Gaza and 95% of their population on the...

Tikkun’s Rabbi Michael Lerner

The complete, unedited text of the message broadly distributed by Tikkun's Rabbi Michael Lerner Date: Friday, May 08, 1998 10:29:27 From: Rabbi Michael Lerner To: In the days when the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal were...

When the Perceived Security Interests of Israel and the US Clash

There are times when the perceived security interests of the US and Israel clash. Yet every time that American and Israeli security interests do not coincide, people seem surprised. In 1984, former New York Times...

Israel at Fifty Makes an Offer “Territories for Peace”, Not “Territories Before Peace”

On the occaision of Israel's fiftieth anniversary, the Jewish state finally finds itself in full scale peace process, following formal peace treaties signed with Egypt (1979) and Jordan (1994). That is because of a...

Arafat Employs Convicted Terrorists in Security Apparatus Letting His People Go

Yasser Arafat doesn't merely set free some Palestinians suspected of violent attacks on Israelis. He often give them jobs in his security apparatus. In early February, Gen. Tawfik Tirawi, the head of the muhabarat, the...

Deir-Yassin

In March, the acts of hostility reached their peak, and it seemed that the Ishuv (pre-state Jewish community) could no longer endure the blows inflicted by the Arabs. The irregular Palestinian forces controlled all...