Palestinian Media since the Wye Agreement
1. The State of Israel as "Occupied Palestine"
Terminology that expresses non-recognition of the existence of Israel.
Cities of Israel are cities of Palestine.
The maps of "Palestine" erase Israel.
2. The Anticipation and Call for the Destruction...
Deterioration of Human Rights
In order to more correctly assess the impact of the Palestinian authority on human rights it is necessary to go back only one year to July 1997. During this period between Har Homa (the...
Ten Days in the Life of the Palestine Authority
Palestinians wary of Israeli ratification of Wye
The Palestinian Authority has expressed displeasure with the ratification by the Cabinet of the Wye Plantation agreement. This, despite a meeting by Israeli envoy Yitzhak Molcho with PA...
Update on Iraq: The US Suddenly Wakes Up?
An Israeli reader reported that at the Likud Central Committee meeting on the Wye accord, some members criticized the Gov't for relying on the US to enforce Palestinian compliance with the provisions on fighting...
Brinkmanship on a Lame Duck Plantation
I spent the good part of a week covering the middle east talks at the Wye Plantation, on the Eastern shores of the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland, USA, in an area that is best...
Why is the Shuafat Refugee Camp Seething?
At a time when the issue of Palestinian refugees surfaces on the agenda of the peace process, a visit to the one Palestinian refugee camp in Jerusalem can provide you with some understanding of...
Al-Ahram: Scott Ritter, Jews, Summer Market, Islam
The 'Mischief Maker' Bows Out
by Special Correspondent
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It was clear that the Iraqi officials waiting on the tarmac last December were nervous. A 15-man UN weapons inspection team was about to land at the...
PA Leader Faisal Huseini: PA Plans War 4th May, 1999
"We are willing to die; for them every death is a tragedy..."
Oslo is dead and buried. The Palestinian youth, especially in the refugee camps, wants to start fighting again, and we are having...
Al-Ahram: Hamas/PA Relations, Bin Laden
Dead or Alive?
by Tareq Hassan
"Some PA officials were quoted as saying.... was much weaker than originally thought; "as scary as a cat", some said."
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Palestinian police lifted tight restrictions imposed earlier this week on...
Eyewitness to the Oslo “Reunion”
On August 24, I flew to the Holmenkollin Park Hotel in Oslo, Norway, to cover a hastily organized "fifth anniversary" conference that was held exactly five years to exact day and the very place...