Weekend Analysis of the Official Palestinian Media

May 6-8, 2005 Summary During the weekend, the Palestinian Authority (PA) media covered a variety of subjects ranging from last week's local elections to this week's overseas trip of Mahmoud Abbas to Brazil, Chile, Japan and...

Does Corruption Drive Israeli ‘Disengagement’?

July 30th, 2005 In the last few weeks we have explored some possible motives behind the government of Israel's insanely self-destructive decision to expel the Jewish population of Gaza and part of Samaria, and to...

Canada, The Middle East Peace Process, UNRWA and “Right of Return”

Canada plays a unique and almost unreported crucial role in the Middle East Peace Process - holding the gavel of the RWG, the "refugee working group", which oversees the work of UNRWA, the United...

Palestinian Authority Radio sermon broadcast from Al Aqsa Mosque on November 23rd

No message to the Palestinian people is more genuine than the message delivered in the Arabic language on the official Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation, the PBC, which operates out of the Ramallah headquarters of Palestinian...

What’s Really behind the Screaming Headlines about the Arrest of an Octogenarian Spy for...

American engineer Ben-Ami Kadish was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly providing to an Israeli "handler" classified data on nuclear weapons, F-15 fighter jets, and the Patriot missile air defense system. A few important points of...

Saudi Arabia – Still in an Active State of War With Israel – Seeks...

Saudi Arabia, in an active state of war with Israel since 1948, seeks a new advanced air-to-air missile from the United States. Saudi Arabia has requested the AIM-9X Sidewinder air-to-air missile from the United States. The...

How Israel is Covered in the Iranian Media

Overview 1. Iranian media and spokesmen continue to demonize Israel, accusing it of complicity with the West in plotting against Iran. The so-called plots pertain both to Iran 's internal affairs (such as the recent...

A Critique: Jewish Telegraphic Agency coverage of Fatah Congress in Bethlehem

The Fatah Congress, launched on Tuesday in Bethlehem, focused on Fatah's determination to continue the armed struggle against the state and people of Israel. However, Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) Correspondent Dina Kraft waits until graph...

One Year After the Islamic Terror Attack on Beit Chabad in Mumbai: Perspective...

Dr. Brian Trappler is Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at SUNY Downstate and the author of “Modern Terrorism and Psychological Trauma.” His second book, “Identifying and Recovering from Psychological Trauma” (Richard Altschuler and Associates) was released in Feb 2009. For more information visit briantrappler.net.

Israel’s Tri-Dimensional Strategy

Dr. Emmanuel Navon (formerly: Mréjen) is a consultant, an academic and a public speaker specialized in International Relations. He was born in 1971 in Paris, where he went to an English-speaking school and graduated...