The United Nations Relief and Works Agency
Like many other UN relief agencies, UNRWA was founded in the midst of a refugee emergency that occurred in the wake of war. The UN organized UNRWA as a special relief agency that was...
The Refugee Dilemma: A Day in the UNRWA Arab Refugee Camps
Iyad Qadi, a Ramallah resident who fought against Israel during the intifada riots of the late '80s through early 90s, returned to the Palestinian refugee camps that raged so violently in those years -...
Thirty Years After Jerusalem is United Under Israel’s Rule, Servicing Jerusalem’s Arab Minority Comes...
June 1997 marked thirty years since the momentous six day war thrust Israel in control of both parts of the city of Jerusalem.
That war followed a period of nineteen years, during which no Jew...
An Ugly Distortion of Justice
It is 1985. You are a young American Jew of the post-Holocaust generation, employed in the US Naval Intelligence. Your loyalty to your country of birth has never been in question. But you are...
A Conversation with Jonathan Pollard
Federal Correctional Institute, Butner, NC.
Last Friday (March 21, 1997) a little after one o'clock in the afternoon, the side door of the visiting room at the prison opened, and through it walked prisoner number...
The Ayatollahs allowed Drug traffic as a Weapon Against Israel
The special religious edict to distribute hard drugs as an ideological weapon in the war against Israel and the west probably originated in Iran. The Goal: to destabilize society and hit the youth. According...
A Call for Palestinian Arab Participation in Jerusalem’s Political Process
Whenever we look into the matter of the voting of Arabs in Jerusalem municipal elections, I am always surprised anew and ask myself why most Arab residents of Jerusalem have refrained from exercising their...
U.S. Intelligence Training for the P.L.O.
Subject: Philadelphia's Finest and American intelligence Training for the Palestine Liberation Army Police Force
There are times when a most clandestine or discrete intelligence operation is revealed quite by accident.
This was the case of the...
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...