Middle East

I watched Muhammad Bakri's film Jenin, Jenin in a limited forum, with Jerusalem Cinematheque Director Leah Van Leer and several journalists. After the private screening, I responded and indicated each lie and lack of...

Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) - The new Palestinian Constitution calls for a state under Islamic law and not a democratic state with human rights or civil liberties, according to a report in an Israeli newspaper. The constitution...

The Palestinian State constitution has gone through at least three drafts in an effort led by legal experts in the European Union and the United States. A comparision of the two versions appears to support...

Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) said President Yasser Arafat (Abu Ammar) remains in charge despite a US and Israeli refusal to deal with him, and said his stamp of approval should precede...

No warning to dismantle militant factions www.jerusalem-times.net/article/news/details/detail.asp?id=3759 Gaza-Muhammad Dahlan, Minister for Security Affairs denied Sunday the Israeli news reports that Condoleezza Rice, US president's National Security Advisor, had told him that the grace period of...

Mr. Chairman, thank-you for the opportunity to address this report on the situation of Palestinian refugees. While Canada is only an observer in this Assembly, we have a significant interest in this issue as...

The twenty-first victim of the heinous bus bombing in Jerusalem on August 19, 2003 was Rachel Weitz, age 70. Her name probably flew by most of you. It almost flew by me, too, the first...

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is a man whose accomplishments put the entire Nation of Israel in his debt. But the Prime Minister, with the support of the US State Department and the UN, has proposed...

PM Sharon has set up a demographic strawman regarding Gaza. The fact is that the 8,000 Jewish settlers do not "live amid 1.2 million Arabs". There are only 150,000 Arabs in the Rafiah area,...