Israel Without Apology

Three decades ago, I was a Berkeley New Leftist with a political and personal problem. I had been born in Israel, and, though I didn't consider myself a Zionist, I certainly didn't want to...

The Palestinian Security Forces and the Second Intifada

Presentation given at the National Press Club in Washington, DC on July 24th, 2003 (Presentation hosted by the Center For Near East Policy Research and the Israel Resource News Agency) Copyright © Gal Luft Introduction In the period...

CMIP Briefing:The latest Palestinian Authority School Books – Hardly a Curriculum for Peace

The new report of the Center for Monitoring the Impact of Peace, just released, represents the fifth time CMIP has done a review of textbooks used by the Palestinian Authority. In the early years...

Briefing with Dr. Yuval Steinitz, Chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Security Committee

Yuval Steinitz was a Professor of Philosophy and a Peace Now activist. In 1994, when he saw that Oslo was a disaster, he did a great deal of soul searching and joined the Likud...

A Profile of Mahmoud Abbas, a.k.a. Abu Mazen

There are allegations that Abbas funded the terrorist attack at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. For Germany, the 1972 Munich Olympics were supposed to be "the Carefree Games." There was to be no barbed...

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...

Official PA Website: PA Will Not Fight any Armed Organizations

The Palestine National Authority (PNA) and the opposition groups have both confirmed that "dialogue" is a national decision and ruled out inter-Palestinian fighting to resolve a dispute that erupted over Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas'...

The Prince: How The Saudi Ambassador Became Washington’s Indispensable Operator

During the first weeks of the second Bush Administration, the Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the United States, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, met with the new President. Bandar, who is fifty-three and has been the...

The “Vision of Peace” according to Hamas

I speak publicly more and more frequently about the experience my family and I have gone through since our daughter Malka Chana z"l was murdered 21 months ago in Jerusalem. It sometimes happens that...

Arafat Remains in Charge, Says Abu Mazen

Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) said President Yasser Arafat (Abu Ammar) remains in charge despite a US and Israeli refusal to deal with him, and said his stamp of approval should precede...