Al-Ahram Weekly: 1st-7th April, 1999
Corruption Cover-Up in UNWRA?
by Zeina Khodr
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"An UNWRA report proves that some officials have been mishandling funds. But, as Zeina Khdor reports from Beirut, Palestinian officials are worried that delays in tackling the scandal could...
Recorded Interview with Jeff Halper, Head of the Israel Committee for House Demolitions (ICHD)
Media analyst Allan Polak conducts recorded interview with Jeff Halper on March 24, 1999. (Halper, an anthropologist, is the head of the ISRAEL COMMITTEE FOR HOUSE DEMOLITIONS and a candidate to be the new...
Al-Ahram Weekly 25th-31st March, 1999
Contents:
Prostitution in Israel: Should This be an Accepted Norm for Young Women - or Should We Fight It? by David S. Bedein
A Battle, Not A Massacre Pro-Arab Lobby
International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism Website
PLC Jamal...
A Successful Launching of Our Campaign Against the Perpetuation of the Occupation
On Friday and Saturday, March 12th and 13th, some 500 Israelis, joined by dozens of Palestinians, launched the Israeli Campaign Against the Perpetuation of the Occupation, notice of which you received earlier. Together we...
Cold Peace Encouraged at Palestinian Israeli Social Workers Workshop?
Monday March 9, by invitation of Dr. Elia Awwael, I attended the Palestinian-Israeli Social Workers Workshop held at the Nativity Hotel located in Bethlehem. The stated goals of the workshop included allowing Israelis and...
Damascus to Rearm Saddam
A secret deal has been agreed between Syria and Iraq for the supply of military equipment to Baghdad, according to Middle East intelligence sources.
Relations between the two countries have been improving significantly in recent...
Hezbollah Takes Another Step Toward Jerusalem
Last Monday, the South Lebanon-based terrorist group Hezbollah, funded and armed by Syria and Iran, set off a roadside bomb that killed an Israeli brigadier general in command of Israel's Lebanon operations, along with...
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...
Al-Ahram Weekly: Jordan Rejects Confederation with Arafat
Arafat's Ladder
by Graham Usher
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"With the dust barely settled on his father's grave, last week King Abdullah was confronted with the one issue he almost certainly would have preferred to have stayed buried, at least...
Al-Ahram Weekly
Making Anti-Terrorism Global
by Jailan Halawi
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"Egypt's interior minister El-Adli seized the occasion of the Arab interior ministers' meeting in Amman to renew Egypt's call for an international conference on terrorism. The meeting, resolving to escalate...








