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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Now that Israel has withdrawn from Gaza, leaving Arab governments and their intellectual apologists in the West without a scapegoat, attention is finally turning to the real problems that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...
The Palestinian Broadcasting Media: A Survey Report
General Summary
On the eve of PLO leader Mahmoud Abbas's planned visit to Washington, the broadcast media of the Palestinian Authority (PA) maintained a generally tough anti-Israeli and sometimes even anti- American posture, regarding talks...
Canada, The Middle East Peace Process, UNRWA and “Right of Return”
Canada plays a unique and almost unreported crucial role in the Middle East Peace Process - holding the gavel of the RWG, the "refugee working group", which oversees the work of UNRWA, the United...
Exit PA, Enter Egypt
Al Ayyam, Oct. 9, 2005
Seeking shelter from Palestinian gun battles.
Executive Summary:
Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has agreed to a virtual Egyptian takeover of the Gaza Strip and has invited other Arab regimes to plant...
The UN’s Palestinian Refugee Problem
In the aftermath of World War II, when it became apparent that millions of destitute refugees were not going to be attended to by existing organizations, the United Nations saw fit to establish an...
