Ehud Barak, Labor’s New Hero

In English, Lt. General (Res) Ehud Barak's last name means lightning. As Israel's highest ranking officer, the retired Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff broke into politics less than two years ago in the...

How Israel Can cope with the PLO by Adopting a Proactive Approach to the...

Edmund Burke, who supported the war against his mother nation, was once asked if he would support the French Revolution. His answer was negative, because "the end is the means in process". To paraphrase...

Full CNN profiles of Netanyahu/Arafat: Worthy of Feedback to CNN

The profiles of Netanyahu and Arafat which are on the CNN web site: http://cnnplus.cnn.com/resources/newsmakers/world/middle.east/netanyahu.html and http://cnnplus.cnn.com/resources/newsmakers/world/middle.east/arafat.html Note: The one time CNN uses the word "terrorist" is about Netanyahu's political movement, with no specifics, no justification for the use...

Minister Sharon, MKs Yahalom & Eitan, Levran

All interviews were carried out in Hebrew on 1st June. All appear in their entirety. Minister of Infrastructure Ariel Sharon IMRA: Is the Netanyahu Government developing today its opening position for the negotiations with the Palestinians...

Shameless in Gaza

Gaza is the most conservative of Palestinian communities; its Islamist militants once set fire to a sea-front hotel, a restaurant and other such dens of iniquity. So imagine the pious horror at the opening of...

Dr. Sa’di Al-Krunz Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC)

Dr. Sa'di Al-Krunz of Al Azar University is a Fatah representative from the Deir Al-Balah District in the Gaza Strip in the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC). IMRA interviewed Dr. Al-Krunz in English on May 19....

Arafat’s Policies Disastrous

Editor's note: Edward Said, who lives in New York and teaches at Coumbia University is among the most well known Palestinian personalities alive. Said's books and essays are now banned by the "Palestinian Authority"...

Escalation in the North

Iran, Syria, the HizbAllah and Palestinian terrorist organizations actively prepare for escalation in the strikes against Israel. The terrorist strikes from Lebanon may be used by Syrian President Hafiz al-Assad to attrite Israel and...

Watching Palestine Authority TV

Itamar Marcus does not recognize the Yasser Arafat that most Israelis know from their television sets. As the head of the Palestine Media Review, a relatively new nonprofit media outfit that monitors the official...

Flourishing Deals Overseas

Who, today, controls the economic empire which the PLO created overseas? "Arafat and his friends are not transferring the PLO's overseas assets to the ownership of the Authority," says Palestinian council member Khosam...