Middle East

I begin with a speech that PA President Mahmoud Abbas gave last Thursday, on the cusp of the arrival of Sec. Rice to this area. He spoke at a rally in Ramallah; the occasion...

When Karen AbuZayd succeeded Peter Hansen as Secretary-General in June 2005, Israelis who interfaced with her (from the Foreign Ministry and relevant offices of the IDF) expressed hopes that her style of functioning would...

The question remains, why Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas' s militant anti-Israel speech this week was not paid attention to, as reported in the here on January 11th, 2007: http://ibn.worldmedianetworks.com/bin/content.cgi?ID=2850&q=1 The reason, according to Palestinian Arabic language...

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is promoting a new initiative to establish a temporary, sovereign and armed Palestinian state Rice will try to promote her initiative soon through extensive international shuttle diplomacy, which...

(video footage available from the Center for Near East Policy Research. policyresearchi@yahoo.com ) "Our rifles, all our rifles are aimed at The Occupation," declared Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas today (January 11) in a major...

Yesterday a report from a high ranking officer in the Southern Command was made public: Palestinians released in prisoner exchanges, he said, "always return to terrorism." Always. That's pretty clear, and pretty direct as...

"Without military action, an Iranian nuclear bomb is a matter of time," according to the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University. A survey of the strategic balance in the Middle East in...

"The Palestinians cannot be blamed for the Israeli government's erroneous decision to initiate a cease fire as the campaign against the Qassams was beginning to succeed." "Egypt, a realist player par excellence, has turned a...

Teddy Kollek, whose name was synonymous with Jerusalem for over 25 years, died on Tuesday at 95; he was laid to rest today in the Mount Herzl cemetery. Jerusalem's mayor from 1965 to 1993,...

Since Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert now describes Palestinian Authority President and Fateh chairman Machmud Abbas as a "moderate". , This reporter then asked Olmert's press secretary if Israel would demand that Abbas disband the...