Flourishing Deals Overseas
Who, today, controls the economic empire which the PLO created overseas? "Arafat and his friends are not transferring the PLO's overseas assets to the ownership of the Authority," says Palestinian council member Khosam...
Thirty Years After Jerusalem is United Under Israel’s Rule, Servicing Jerusalem’s Arab Minority Comes...
June 1997 marked thirty years since the momentous six day war thrust Israel in control of both parts of the city of Jerusalem.
That war followed a period of nineteen years, during which no Jew...
Has the PA Failed to Fulfill Its Commitments Under the Hebron Accord?
The Israel Government Press Office released a comprehensive 35-page report assessing Israeli and Palestinian compliance with the Hebron Accord. The report is being issued to mark six months since the signing and implementation of...
The Other Side of Pollard: Damage, Duplicity – and Justice
Even in the icy world of international espionage, it is still somewhat startling that "equal justice under law" is little more than a palsied proverb.
Consider these three cases of law and perfidy:
From November 1992...
The Case of a Missing Children Part Eight: Their Grief Still Remains
In Part Seven of this series, you read about Yosef Aharon Hammami and his two wives, and how one child was stolen from each. In the last part, you read about the son taken...
Out of Shadows, Agency Is Directly Involved in Israeli-Palestinian Security Talks
The CIA has emerged from the shadows of diplomacy to play a unique, highly visible role in the Middle East peace process, mediating disputes between Israeli and Palestinian security forces and participating in negotiations...
Recorded Interview with Jeff Halper, Head of the Israel Committee for House Demolitions (ICHD)
Media analyst Allan Polak conducts recorded interview with Jeff Halper on March 24, 1999. (Halper, an anthropologist, is the head of the ISRAEL COMMITTEE FOR HOUSE DEMOLITIONS and a candidate to be the new...
Mother of Murdered Soldier Questions the Release of Palestinian Terrorists
The release of Palestinian terrorists would be "an obscenity" said Esther Wachsman, the mother of Cpl Nachshon Wachson who five years ago was kidnapped, held hostage and murdered by Palestinian terrorists.
Speaking independently to a...
When the EU Facilitates Israeli Organizations in Support of the Oslo Process
The Middle East peace process initiated with the Oslo Accords has attracted many supporters of which the European Union is pre-eminent, with a financial aid program from the EU and the European Investment Bank...
Military Implications of the Seizure of the PLO Gun Ship
Alongside the diplomatic efforts to reach a ceasefire with Israel, the Palestinian Authority (PA) has been involved -- since the beginning of the second intifada -- in the indigenous production of weapons and ammunition...