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Israel Prepares for Trouble
Israel radio on Monday, July 13, reported that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met secretly with seven cabinet ministers for the third time on Sunday, to develop a "strategic policy" for dealing with the...
Al-Ahram: Egypt’s Options, Lutfi El-Kholi
The following are selections from articles which appeared in the Egyptian English weekly, "Al-Ahram" of Al-Ahram Weekly, 2nd - 8th July, 1998
Forging News Alliances
by Dina Ezzat
Dina Ezzat explores Egypt's options beyond a defunct...
Intelligence Sources: Hamas Members Who Planned Attacks are Serving in the Palestinian Security Forces
A recently compiled intelligence report submitted to the government lists 21 prominent Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists as currently serving in the Palestinian security forces.
Six of the terrorists played central roles in the suicide...
Making the Palestine Authority More Palatable for the Israeli Public to Swallow
On June 3, 1998, the US state department removed the PLO from the list of terrorist organizations. There was no response from the Israeli government. Indeed, Israel state radio reported the item only twice,...
Al-Ahram: Unrepentant Terrorist, Jerusalem Construction, Jordan
The following are selections from articles which appeared in the Egyptian English weekly, "Al-Ahram" of Al-Ahram Weekly 28th May - 3rd June, 1998
Tourist Killers Unrepentant to the End
by Shaden Shehab
Two brothers, sentenced to...
The Telltale Silence of the Post-Oslo Palestinian Press
(Lecture for the conference: "A 21st century Dialogue: Media's Dark Age?" Athens, 24th - 28th May 1998, organized by "Women for Mutual Security")
The Palestinian Authority oppresses its people and intimidates its press. In what...
PA Ministry of Information on Right of Return
IMRA interviewed Omar Bessisso, Head of Relations and External Media Department in the Palestinian Authority Ministry of Information, in English, on May 14, 1998:
IMRA: What do you see as the central message of the...
NAKBA: The Palestinian Arabs Miss Their Opportunity…
As Israel celebrated its fiftieth anniversary with appropriate pomp and circumstance, the new Palestine Authority, the entity that rules all of the Palestinian Arab population in Gaza and 95% of their population on the...
Israel at Fifty Makes an Offer “Territories for Peace”, Not “Territories Before Peace”
On the occaision of Israel's fiftieth anniversary, the Jewish state finally finds itself in full scale peace process, following formal peace treaties signed with Egypt (1979) and Jordan (1994). That is because of a...
Deir-Yassin
In March, the acts of hostility reached their peak, and it seemed that the Ishuv (pre-state Jewish community) could no longer endure the blows inflicted by the Arabs. The irregular Palestinian forces controlled all...
