Soul-searching on the Left Could Heal Israel’s Wounds

On the second anniversary of the Rabin assassination, it is plain that leaders of the Israeli left still demand an ongoing soul-searching from the right. But they seem to be having trouble doing this...

Eye on Syria: Timely Report on Developments

Our Top Stories Syria Expected to Become Missile Exporter Assad's New Man is His Son-in-law Syria Compares Israel to Nazis; Denies Holocaust Syria Expected to Become Missile Exporter Syria is building its arsenal with North Korean help and is...

Syria, Lebanon Trying to Stymie UN Help in Israeli Pullout

Lebanon and Syria are trying to stymie United Nations cooperation for an Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon. Lebanon and Syria have set tough terms for an expanded UN peacekeeping presence in Lebanon in the wake...

Palestinian Security Forces: So Far So Bad

Four years ago, following the September 1996 opening of the Hasmonean Tunnel in Jerusalem, Palestinians policemen and Israeli soldiers exchanged heavy fire throughout the West Bank and Gaza Strip leaving 69 Palestinians and 14...

Official Palestinian Authority Radio “Voice of Palestine” Dec. 13

Summary and Analysis VOP's morning news bulletins and news-round-ups focused on "criminal" Israeli military attacks, in particularly those leading to deaths of four members of Palestinian security forces in Gaza. (Note: death toll changed throughout...

Official Palestinian Authority Voice of Palestine Radio Broadcasts: Dec. 26

Summary and Analysis VOP returned Tuesday to very careful coverage of the Clinton proposals to the Palestinians and Israel in Washington. VOP is trying to navigate between the hard line of Abu Ala (PA Speaker...

Will the PA Move Thousands of Arab Refugees into Jerusalem?

It’s hard to find anyone these days in East Jerusalem who supports the idea of splitting the city again. Even PA representatives are opposed to a return to the situation that existed before the...

Official PA radio news – The P.B.C. VOP (Voice of Palestine) Radio: January 20-21

Summary and Analysis The Palestinian Authority formally said goodbye to the Clinton proposals, thanking him for his efforts, while setting its sights on achieving a detailed agreement with Israel within ten days, according to statements...

Israel Internal Security Chief Avi Dichter: ‘Israeli Arab demos prompted Intifada’

Israeli Arab demonstrations after then-opposition leader Ariel Sharon went to the Temple Mount last September prompted the Palestinian Intifada, Shin Bet Chief Avi Dichter told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee yesterday. In his...

General Sharon on the Ground

This week Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was reminded of an officer by the name of Amnon Schwartzburg, a member of Kibbutz Beit Alpha, whom he had recommended for a favorable citation after the paratrooper...