Watching Palestine Authority TV

Itamar Marcus does not recognize the Yasser Arafat that most Israelis know from their television sets. As the head of the Palestine Media Review, a relatively new nonprofit media outfit that monitors the official...

Review of Syria’s Missile Strategy & Iraqi Biological Weapons?

The following is an excerpt from an article which appeared in the 22nd October, 1996 edition of the London publication, Almashad Alsiasi: Syria has carried out a reorganization of its surface-to-surface missile units since 1982....

When the Perceived Security Interests of Israel and the US Clash

There are times when the perceived security interests of the US and Israel clash. Yet every time that American and Israeli security interests do not coincide, people seem surprised. In 1984, former New York Times...

Al-Ahram: Peace Offensive, Israel’s Security, Beyond Oslo

The following are selections from articles which appeared in the Egyptian English weekly, "Al-Ahram" of Al-Ahram Weekly, 18th - 24th June, 1998 Truthful Lies, Respectable Murder by Radwa Ashour The Egyptian-Israeli peace offensive is a new...

Israel’s Spy Was Right About Saddam

Former naval intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard confessed to passing classified documents to Israel without authorization between 1981 and 1985. For this, he was rightly sent to prison for espionage. People who spy for allied...

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...

Text of Letter Sent by Likud Leader Ariel Sharon to US Sec’y of State...

Her Excellency Mrs. Madelaine Allbright Secretary of State The State Dept. Washington DC. Monday October 2, 20000 Dear Secretarv Allbright: I deeply regret, and I find it totally unacceptable that your spokesman was quick to make a...

What Really Happened When Muchmud Al-dirah, the 12 Year-old Was Shot Dead

The Jerusalem weekly, Kol Ha'zman, published in its Oct. 6 issue an interview with Talal Abu Rachmah, the TV photographer who filmed the death of Muchmud Al-dirah, the 12 year-old child shot dead at...

Exchange of Letters Between Imra and Amnesty International

IMRA sent two notes with questions to Amnesty International: First message: Dear R Campbel of Amnesty International, Further to our telephone conversation, the following is our question: The following line appears in your report "Israel/Occupied Territories: Amnesty...

The Five Ceasefires Since the Intifada Erupted

The "cease-fire" achieved in Gilo on August 29th is the fifth such agreement to be reached between Israel and the Palestinians since the eruption of the Intifada. Some of the agreements were bilateral, others...