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Commentary: In the Aftermath of the Palestinian Unity Government
Well, the Palestinian National Council approved the new unity government today, with 83 votes out of 87 council members participating. (There are 132 seats in the legislature, but 41 members are in Israeli prisons.)...
Bedein: Saudi Arabia – Although At War With Israel – Called By U.S. As...
On May 15, 1948, on the very day that Israel declared its independence from the British empire, the Arab league, comprised of the Arab states in the Middle East, declared a war whose purpose...
Commentary: A Word of Caution
A word of caution is in order today regarding what seem to be peaceful overtures.
Spain has just hosted a Spanish-Arab conference in Madrid that 19 members of the Arab League attended.
(It is, I will...
Testimony presented to: Hearing of the Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia...
February 14, 2007
2172 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C.
Chaired By: Representative Gary L. Ackerman (D-NY)
Witnesses:
David Makovsky, Director, Project on the Middle East Peace Process, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy;
Martin S. Indyk, Director, Saban...
The Illusion of “Peace in Exchange for Territories”
For years, especially since the 1991 Madrid Peace Conference, Arab leaders have repeated the mantra that peace with Israel hinges upon a withdrawal to the pre-1967 border. Similar rhetoric followed with the Arab Summit's...
Commentary: Calls for a New Intifada
With everything else, the calls by Arab leaders for a new intifada and the need for all Palestinians to unite against the "outrage" of what Israel is purportedly doing to Islamic holy places is...
Will the US decision to arm the Palestinian Authority’s Military Capability Backfire on the...
The day after the armed forces of Palestinian Authority President Machmud Abbas shared credit for the bombing of a bakery in the Israeli port city of Elat which claimed the lives of three young...
Commentary: The Political Horizom
Yesterday the polls were released that Likud is way up in a recent poll and Kadima has pretty much fallen on its face. Today I am additionally encouraged. Netanyahu has addressed a meeting of...
WHEN IT BLEEDS IT LEADS:
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, addressed a preplanned meeting of his Kadima faction of the Israeli Knesset parliament only two hours after the terror attack in Israel's port city of Eilat. His described the...
Suicide bomb attack in Israeli city of Eilat kills three; Hamas, Fatah and Islamic...
Israeli security sources have confirmed that an explosion has occurred in the Israeli Red Sea resort of Eilat.
The sources said that the explosion was in one of the bakeries in the city and resulted...
