After They Have Destroyed Everything We Built”

President Arafat addressing the Arab Foreign Ministers in Cairo:ilt" "We need a more firm stand confronting the Israelis after they have destroyed every thing we built" Cairo, August 23rd, WAFA (Official Palestine news agency), President Yasser...

Remembering Hillel Kook: A Giant of 20th century Jewish history

One of the drawbacks of longevity is that when that person dies, his impact on history may be lost on a new generation who did not know who he was. Such is the case...

“Sending Our Son Off to War”

This week we accompanied our first born son, Noam, to the IDF army recruitment center in Jerusalem, where he was inducted into an IDF combat unit, with three months of basic training lying ahead...

How the Official Palestinian VOICE OF PALESTINE Radio Covered the August Bombings

On the day of the massive bombing in Jerusalem--August 10, 2001--The Voice of Palestine opened its morning broadcasts at 7 a.m. with a 15-minute spotlight on Ali Joulani, the man who, 2 days earlier...

Why Did Israel Close the Orient House: The Inside Story

News reports concerning the Israeli takeover of the PLO Orient House in Jerusalem focused on the Orient House as little more than a symbol of PLO presence in Jerusalem, and as a place where...

Peres and Melchior allow the EU funding to PA education to Resume… WHY??

The donor nations to the Palestinian Authority educational system had egg on their face last summer, when our investigative research showed that the consuls of Italy, Holland, Belgium, Finland and Ireland, had financed new...

Will US Military Observers Return in Body Bags?

During US Secretary of State Colin Powell's June 28th visit to Israel, Powell announced that the US would dispatch military "observers" to oversee implementation of US-brokered accords between Israel and the PLO. On July...

Joint Statement of Israeli Peace Now and PLO

NO TO BLOODSHED, NO TO OCCUPATION YES TO NEGOTIATIONS, YES TO PEACE We, the undersigned Israelis and Palestinians, are meeting in the most difficult of circumstances for both our peoples. We come together to call for...

Arafat’s New Army

On Tuesday, a few hours after Yuri Gushtzin was murdered and his body dumped near the slaughterhouse in Ramallah, the "el-Aksa Martyrs Brigades," the military arm of Fatah, took responsibility for the murder. The announcement...

President Arafat Received the Letter of Credentials of the new German Ambassador And the...

GAZA - July 28 - WAFA (Official Palestine News Agency) - President Yasser Arafat received in His Headquarters in Gaza this morning, the credential letter of Mr. Andreas Reinieke, the new German representative to...