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The Israeli Elections
Bang! A starting gun shooting blanks. The candidates are off and running in the Israeli Knesset sweepstakes.
Nine of them have taken the field thus far, on the track for would-be prime minister in Israel.
Israel's...
Implementation of the Wye Agreement: Release of Palestinian Prisoners
Israel's release of ordinary criminal prisoners instead of security prisoners in the wake of the Wye Agreement has provoked anger among Palestinians. Those members of the Palestinian negotiating team charged with overseeing the prisoner...
The Palestinian Security Services: Between Police and Army
Source: The Washington Institute for Near East Policy - Special report on "Palestinian security services: between police and army" - November, 1998.
As a result of Oslo, the PSS (Palestinian Security Services) was established. The...
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...
Arafat Health Scare Puts Peace Process in Jeopardy
Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian leader, is suffering from Parkinson's disease, according to a report compiled by Israeli military intelligence. He is receiving treatment for symptoms of tremor and muscular rigidity but shows no sign...
Al-Ahram: Weak Clinton, Egyptian Poll, Palestinian State, PA/Israel
Crime and Punishment
by Fayza Hassan Pot Pourri, a regular columnist
Excerpts:
The numerous episodes of the Clinton saga are telling proof that Americans have not really changed in their candid, puritanical morality since the days the...
The Security Situation Today
1) The Arabs in Judea and Samaria have for months been performing training exercises aimed at attacking the Jewish communities. I and others in the area have been trying desperately to bring this state...
Al-Ahram: Terrorism, Ngo’s, Arafat’s New Cabinet
Fertile Ground
Salama Ahmed Salama
Excerpts
The success of international terrorism in breaking through seemingly impenetrable security barriers and outwitting advanced intelligence techniques in the Nairobi and Dar es Salaam bombings lays bare a new fact. A...
Abbas: Klinghoffer Created Troubles So I Killed Him
Gaza City...
Mohammed "Abul" Abbas - the most wanted man in the world 13 years ago after masterminding the Achille Lauro hijacking now holds court in the offices of the Palestine Liberation Front, the small...
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...
