U.S. Letters of Assurance to Israel

Embassy of the United States of America Tel Aviv October 30, 1998 Mr. Dani Naveh Cabinet Secretary Office of the Prime Minister Jerusalem Dear Dani, I wanted to confirm our policy on the issues of Reciprocity/Parallelism, Permanent Status Negotiations, and Prisoner Releases....

Palestinian Reactions to the Wye River Memorandum III

Revising the Charter and Security Issues Part II, Section C, Paragraph 2, of the Wye River Memorandum, requires the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Central Council to reaffirm the January...

A State in the Making: Rights and Duties

President Arafat's mention of a possible confederation with Jordan has stirred numerous comments. The president's remarks, however, need to be understood in the context in which they were spoken. At the time he made the...

Egyptian Al-Ahram: Peace Only if ’48 Refugees Return Home

Full Text: Even if the statement made by US President Bill Clinton last week that millions of Palestinian refugees "should be given the freedom to settle wherever they want to" was a "slip of the...

Official PA radio news — 12th February, 2001

Summary and Analysis V.O.P. justified the murder of the Israeli driver Tzahi Sasson last night near the Jerusalem-Bethlehem by-pass tunnel, when it announced at the opening of its 8 a.m. morning news that the dead...

Official PA radio news – P.B.C. V.O.P. (Voice of Palestine) Radio, February 2Oth. PA...

In his morning commentary, senior V.O.P. commentator Youssef al-Kazaz exhorted the new Republican administration to take an active role in the peace process and for President George W. Bush "to be his father's son." The...

Arafat Comments on his Conditions for a Ceasefire Continuation

Arafat, speaking to the Arab Monitoring Committee in Amman, on June 18, 2001: "The cease fire and all other security measures, agreements and meetings will not last if Israel does not halt its settlements,...

The Associated Press Reveals the Lie of a Palestinian Doctor.

Israeli soldiers did not bar a Palestinian woman in labor from passing an Israeli checkpoint, her relatives said Thursday, refuting initial claims by two Palestinian doctors. The baby boy was born in a taxi at...

Perpetual Middle East Myths: A Critique of a Fox TV Interview

Although the Fox News Channel is often accused of being conservative, the most penetrating reporting and analysis I find on the evening news is the "Special Report" by Fox's Brit Hume. During an August...

How the IDF Must Make Order

The time has come to instate order and the time has come to restore to Israel its power of deterrence. We are a country with enormous power, yet almost every day its weak enemies...