Towards the Canadian Elections: Canadian External Affairs Minister Pierre Pettigrew Answers Palestinian Policy Questions

Last May, a Canadian subscriber to Israel Resource News Agency's news service wrote to Pierre Pettigrew, the Canadian External Affairs Minister, to inquire about Canadian policy towards the Palestinians, and recently got a detailed...

“Palestinian Politically Correct Anti-Semitism”

Scheduled to be delivered as a paper in the seminar series at the Fuchsberg Center for Conservative Judaism, 4 Agron Street, Jerusalem, Israel, on January 9th, 2006. Before delving into the difficult content of tonight's...

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...

This Week In the Palestinian Authority: Issue Three

Editor's note:Welcome to the third edition of "Inside the PA," a weekly on-line publication designed to provide an open-source and yet valuable insight into the workings of the Palestinian Authority. We will review important...

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...

Free Marwan Barghouti To Counter Power of Hamas

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...

Keep Marwan Barghouti Behind Bars

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)....

UNRWA: A Roadblock to Peace?

Now that Israel has withdrawn from Gaza, leaving Arab governments and their intellectual apologists in the West without a scapegoat, attention is finally turning to the real problems that are plaguing the Palestinian Territories....

Why does UNRWA exist?

(This article appeared as an oped in the Jerusalem Post of October 28th, 2005) As the United Nations celebrated its 60th anniversary this fall with a dramatic World Summit, supposedly sweeping reform proposals sought to...

Official Palestinian authority media: Abbas’s own Fatah killed ‘settlers’

The Fateh-led Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) took credit for a drive by murder of two young women and a fourteen year old boy at a bus stop today just south of Bethlehem, at the...