Official PA radio news: PA Virtual Endorsement of Ehud Barak
Summary and Analysis
The Voice of Palestine stepped up the Palestinian Authority's support of Ehud Barak, only five days before Israeli elections, featuring reports on efforts by Sweden (temporary head of EU) to set up...
AP: Documents Show that Arafat Remunerates the Killers
Jerusalem (AP) - After seizing Palestinian offices and scouring thousands of papers, Israel says documents show Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat authorized payment to a militant who allegedly had been involved in killing several Israelis.
Israel's...
Proposed Palestinian State – US Asset or Liability?
1. THE NATURE OF THE PROPOSED PALESTINIAN STATE, AND ITS IMPACT ON REGIONAL STABILITY, TERRORISM AND AMERICAN INTERESTS AND VALUES are attested by the raging Palestinian civil war and by the track record of...
Incisive Commentary
Posting; March 5, 2008
"Could Be Worse"
The situation is not exactly wonderful, but truly something much worse than what we're seeing right now might have developed.
Condoleezza Rice has left. After meeting with Tzipi Livni today,...
Why Isn’t Obama Pressuring thePalestinians?
For the first time since the Oslo peace process started 18 years ago, Palestinian leaders are openly refusing to negotiate with the government of Israel, and U.S. President Barack Obama's administration is doing very...
WILL UPHEAVAL IN EGYPT UNDERMINE ABBAS?
It has arguably not been a good week for Palestinianian Authortiy President Mahmoud Abbas.
Last Saturday February 5, The Palestinian Authority finally allowed a protest to take place in Ramallah in solidarity with thre Egyptian...
How the World Enabled 25 Years of Palestinian Decline
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/12/19/how-the-world-enabled-25-years-of-palestinian-decline/
One of the saddest comments I’ve ever heard was Gaza resident Ziad Ashour’s statement to the New York Times last week. Ever since the first intifada erupted in 1987, the 43-year-old butcher said, “things...
Concerns about Middle East Studies workshop
Dear President Qayoumi, Mo.Qayoumi@sjsu.edu
We are faculty at the University of California and co-founders of the AMCHA Initiative, a grassroots organization committed to investigating, documenting, and combatting campus antisemitism, particularly on California public university campuses.
We...
America’s Problems in the Middle East are Just Beginning
http://www.meforum.org/3583/america-problems-middle-east
It's 2015, and there is a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza. The Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood (Hamas), financed by Iran, wins an election on a platform demanding the expulsion...
Iran Celebrates Use of Rockets Supplied to Hamas
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/iran-celebrates-use-of-rockets-supplied-to-hamas/
Iranian military leaders on Monday celebrated Hamas’ use of advanced long-range rockets that were supplied to the terror group by the Iranian regime.
Iran’s role in arming Hamas militants with more sophisticated artillery capable of...