Official PA radio news – P.B.C. V.O.P. (Voice of Palestine) Radio: Saunday Afternoon February...

Israel Election Preview on V.O.P. On Monday night and Tuesday morning, V.O.P. ushered in the Israeli elections-with a sharp escalation of anti-Sharon rhetoric and emphasis on a military escalation in the Gaza Strip alongside the...

Agent Turned Author Defies CIA

The CIA is demanding that a celebrated former agent remove passages from an upcoming book that claims that high-ranking members of the Saudi royal family have been involved in political assassination plots and the...

Covering Left Wing Conferences in the US – in Boston and in Columbus

We dispatched a journalist to report on a conference that took place More gathered on the weekend of October 31-November 2nd in Boston, where more than 700 particpants discusse thee Geneva accords that have...

Will the Real Abu-Mazen Please Stand Up?

Does the Palestinian Arab press know something that the Israeli press does not know? Even as the Hebrew press headlined the remarks of Mahmoud Abbas (a.k.a. Abu-Mazen) calling for an end to the "Intifada," the...

Beneath the Moderate Veneer

"If anyone deserves to be given a chance, this is the guy." So declared Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, referring to PA Chair Mahmoud Abbas (aka Abu Mazen), in an address just this past...

An Update on the Legality of Jewish Settlement Activity

A report was presented on February 21st, 2006 by "Bitselem" which claims that Israel's policies of settling Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem, in areas that came under Israel's control after the 1967...

“Who will win the war, will Israel be able to win”?

An Outline of what the BESA speakers had to say: Mordechai Keidar- BESA: The conflict began 1350 years ago when Islam was sub-divided into Sunni and Shi'a. Hezbollah is part of the Shi'a sect. The name...

WARREN BUFFET COMES TO SEE HIS INVESTMENT IN ISRAEL: A HANDS ON REPORT

When Israelis think of business people from the USA, they often conjure up images of fast talking ambitious go-getters from New York or Los Angeles. Indeed, during this reporter's 36 years in Israel, it has...

Incisive Commentary from Jerusalem

Posting: March 24, 2008 "Fatah and Hamas" Well, here we are in the midst of an ever-changing scenario that has yet to play itself out. Officially, neither the US nor Israel has comment on the agreement signed...

Analysis: Understanding What is Now Transpiring in Egypt

January 31, 2011 "Convoluted and Painful Process" The issues are anything but simple, and resolution of the situation in Egypt will not happen overnight, or in a week or a month. I do not intend to...