[The Debate] Before The House of Representatives on 5th August, 1998
Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, and Judiciary, and related agencies appropriations act, 1999 (House of Representatives - August 5, 1998)
Mr Saxton: Mr Chairman, I offer an amendment.
The Chairman: The Clerk will designate the...
Al-Ahram: Terrorism, Ngo’s, Arafat’s New Cabinet
Fertile Ground
Salama Ahmed Salama
Excerpts
The success of international terrorism in breaking through seemingly impenetrable security barriers and outwitting advanced intelligence techniques in the Nairobi and Dar es Salaam bombings lays bare a new fact. A...
Does the United States Intend to Pursue Terrorists Who Murder Its Citizens . ....
Since the terrorist bombings at the U.S. Embassies in Nairobi, Kenya mad Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania, President Clinton and officials of his administration have been vehemently proclaiming that terrorists who murder U.S. citizens will be pursued...
Israel’s Spy Was Right About Saddam
Former naval intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard confessed to passing classified documents to Israel without authorization between 1981 and 1985. For this, he was rightly sent to prison for espionage. People who spy for allied...
Yitzhar’s Neighbours
The following was culled from the August 7, 1998 column of Nachum Barnea, one of Israel's outstanding correspondents and political observers, published in Yediot Ahronot, the country's largest daily.
Barnea describes a visit to the...
The Timing of Terror
In the wee hours of the morning of August 5, 1998, an Israeli patrol jeep was fired on near the Israeli west bank community of Yitzhar. It was a well planned ambush. The two...
The Odd Couple Fight an Odd Traffic System to Reduce Speed and Save Lives
To alleviate the many traffic concerns of the public, the Israeli government is planning to build Route 6, the Trans Israel high-speed superhighway that will connect the country from North to South. Israel's first...
Report on Palestine Authority Summer Camps
Part 1. Educating Children to Violence
Part 2. Children's Summer Camps are Military Training Camps
Part 3. Education Children to See Land of the State of Israel as Palestine and Israeli Arabs as Palestinians
1. Introduction
The Palestinian...
Hebron Situation Report
The last months of PA administration in Hebron have witnessed the continued conflict between the Jewish and Arab communities of that troubled city. This Belfast of the Middle East is rapidly moving toward armed...
Al-Ahram: Netanyahu, Negotiations, and More
The following are selections from articles which appeared in the Egyptian English weekly, "Al-Ahram" of Al-Ahram Weekly, during July, 1998
Why is Netanyahu So Popular
by Mohamed Sid-Ahmed
Excerpts
A nagging question that refuses to go away is...