Middle East

Editor's note: Welcome to the first edition of "Inside the PA," a weekly on-line publication designed to provide valuable insight into the workings of the Palestinian Authority. We will review important statements by senior PA...

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...

Plans are afoot by the US State Department to force ISrael to open a route from Gaza to the West Bank through the southern half of Israel. This has implications to cut Israel in...

During the mid-1990s, Marwan Barghouti and his close friend Qaddoura Fares initiated a number of meetings with representatives of the Israeli peace camp. They presented themselves as people committed to turning the Oslo process...

On this page last week, Yossi Beilin posited that convicted murderer Marwan Barghouti is the one Palestinian leader ready and able to fight Hamas ("Free Marwan Barghouti To Counter Power of Hamas," December 2)....

Norwegian statesman Kaare Kristiansen, who made his name as a friend of Israel since the establishment of the Jewish state in 1948, passed away on Sunday at the age of 85. My first contact with...

Commissioned by Israel Resource News Agency and the Center for Near East Policy Research Previous reports available at: /bin/review.cgi?Year=2009 Response to the Fact sheet on the Disengagement passed out at the Toronto GA at: /library/pdfs/FactSheetAndResponses.pdf Contents *"Let my...

On the eve of disengagement, a massive government public relations campaign maintained that "there is a solution for each evacuee." Today, more than 100 days after nearly 9,000 Israelis were uprooted, it emerges that...

Ariel Sharon, who has served as Israel's Prime Minister for almost five years, has suddenly found himself as a man without the very Likud party that he formed in 1973. Likud had a clear platform,...

(Copy of the "yesh Gvul" brochure offering $750/Month for IDF soldiers who refuse service in Judea and Samaria available for perusal or faxxing) http://www.israelnn.com/print.php3?what=news&id=93321 18:18 Nov-20-05 / 18 Cheshvan 5766 Sunday, November 20, 2005 / 18 Cheshvan...