Where is UNRWA Going After the Withdrawal from Katif?

In early November, shortly after Israel had pulled out of Gaza, Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom met with UNRWA's new commissioner-general, Karen AbuZayd. Shalom suggested, during that meeting, that it might be time for...

Sharon Achieved neither Peace nor Security for His People or Ours: Khatib

08/01/2006 www.palestine-pmc.com/details.asp?cat=1&id=1074 Palestinians won't miss Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon whether he survives or succumbs to his "critical but stable" condition while battling for his life after undergoing a third brain surgery in an Israeli...

Hizballah And Palestinian Authority Escalating Anti-American Propaganda

Hizballah is now placing an unambiguous "bulls-eye" on the United States, calling America and its leaders state terrorists, and symbolically placing America in the same "enemy" class as "the Zionists" - Israel. "Here is the...

Iran’s War: A Prelude to the Spanish Civil War

Think again. "This is more like the Spanish Civil War," says Daniel Seaman, an Israeli government spokesman. "What we are seeing is a series of conflicts that foreshadow a future world conflict, just as the...

Hezbollah’s War

"Here is the president of terror," proclaims a Hizballah propaganda film montage on Al-Manar television, showing the face of President Bush alongside an American flag. As faces of dead and wounded children appear on...

DR. BERNARD LEWIS: Placing the Current Conflict Into Perspective

During the Cold War, both sides possessed weapons of mass destruction, but neither side used them, deterred by what was known as MAD, mutual assured destruction. Similar constraints have no doubt prevented their use...

Media Sidelining Israel’s Human Suffering?

Heavy smoke rose from the rocket stricken city of Haifa on Sunday afternoon, following intense bombardment by Hizbullah's long-range missiles, but much of the international media turned a blind eye to the scenes, omitting...

Commentary on Possible Commission of Inquiry

Defense Minister Peretz has come out in favor of a formal commission of inquiry with regard to the war, which puts him in opposition to Olmert and definitely strains the coalition. Look for a...

Commentary: The Livni-Rice Meeting and More

Foreign Minister Livni is in Washington and met with Sec. of State Rice. When a joint press conference was held, Livni made the statement that: "... stagnation is not Israel's government's policy." And there...

Commentary: The Pope’s Statement; Questiona about Yaalon; Livni and Abbas

It seems as if the Pope has told it like it is with regard to Islam -- referring in an academic context to a propensity within this religion for violence. And see what happened:...