Arrested Professor Charged with “Collaboration”

On 2 July, the Palestinian Preventative Security Service (PSS) arrested Dr. Fathi Ahmed Subuh. Dr. Subuh is the head of the Department of Education at al Azhar University in Gaza and the Director of...

PLO Runs “Police-State” in Arafat’s “Self-rule” Areas

JERUSALEM (Reuters 20th January, 1998) - A leading Palestinian human rights group, accusing the Palestinian Authority of acting like a "police state," issued a scathing report Tuesday detailing widespread human rights abuses in Palestinian-ruled...

PA Minister of Justice – Also Execute Land Dealers

IMRA interviewed Palestinian Authority Minister of Justice, Freih Abu Meddien, in English, on 31st August: IMRA: Do you see yesterdays' executions as setting a precedent for future cases or was it an exception? Meddien: Any crime...

Death Sentence on Israelis

Not only has a Palestinian land law come into being, but a Palestinian law on weapons is also now in effect, according to which it is permissible for the Palestinian Authority to manufacture weapons...

A Parallel Mideast Battle: Is It News or Incitement?

RAMALLAH, West Bank, Oct. 21 - When Israel unleashed a retaliatory rocket barrage nearly two weeks ago against the police station here, where two of its soldiers were killed by an angry mob, the...

Official PA radio news – the PBC Voice of Palestine – Oct 24

QUOTE OF THE DAY "President Arafat opened the meeting (of the Palestinian leadership) by sending his congratulations to the Palestinian masses for their steadfastness in standing up tocontinuing Israeli aggression for three weeks."- SUMMARY The Voice of...

Palestinian Arab Educator Bemoans the Cut-off of Funds to PA Schools

What Palestinian students are taught in the classroom and what textbooks they read have somehow become a major issue in the current debate on ways to end the cycle of violence in the Israeli-Palestinian...

Are Israel’s Settlements Legal?

Assuming the Middle East conference actually does take place, its official task will be to achieve peace between Israel and its Levantine neighbors in accordance with Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338. Resolution 242,...

EU Defends its Role in Funding the Israeli Left

European Union officials have defended the support they provide to Israeli leftist organizations, including Peace Now, the Four Mothers, and MK Roman Bronfman's Impact project. MKs on the right have criticized Europe's intervention in Israeli...

Joint Statement of Israeli Peace Now and PLO

NO TO BLOODSHED, NO TO OCCUPATION YES TO NEGOTIATIONS, YES TO PEACE We, the undersigned Israelis and Palestinians, are meeting in the most difficult of circumstances for both our peoples. We come together to call for...