P.A. Accountability

While the US Congress deliberates over whether or not to comply with the request of President Clinton to grant an additional $400M to the Palestinian Authority, a team of Palestinian and Israeli journalists have...

That Was the Week That Was in the Official Media of the Palestinian Authority

The Palestinian media highlighted the latest in the negotiations with Israel and preparations for final status negotiations. The lead story concerned the dispute between Israel and the Palestinian Authority over plans by Prime Minister...

Incitement: The Missing Element in the Sharm el-Sheikh Memorandum*

The agreement signed between Israel and the PLO on Sept. 4th, 1999 was different in one significant way from the Oslo accords that were reached in August, 1993 and the Wye Accords that were...

David Bedein’s Response to Rabbi Asherman

Dear Rav Arik, I am more than pleased to publish your reponse to my piece. In terms of my response to you, please know that it is because I have expectations from the Rabbis for Human...

Questions Placed to the “Rabbis for Human Rights”

The Rabbis for Human Rights aims to educate Jews, especially Israeli citizens, that they bear a burden of moral responsibility in the area of human rights and civil liberties, especially in regard to Palestinian...

Exercises in the Art of War

The Chairman of the Palestinian Authority is nervous and speaks aggressively. Hamas and the activists get the hint: He will not oppose a little "pressure" on Israel, which will also press the Americans. The...

PLO State to Include at Least All West Bank and Gaza

When permanent status negotiations begin, borders of the state of Palestine, including Jerusalem and all other territories occupied in 1967, will be determined by the terms of reference of the Oslo Agreement. the "peace of...

Egyptian Al-Ahram: Peace Only if ’48 Refugees Return Home

Full Text: Even if the statement made by US President Bill Clinton last week that millions of Palestinian refugees "should be given the freedom to settle wherever they want to" was a "slip of the...

Palestinian Reflections on the Kosovo Crisis

As a Palestinian who was born a quarter of a century after and spared the Nakba (catastrophe) of 1948 that galvanized Palestine and sent most of our Palestinian people then fleeing to nearby later-hostile...

Official Fatah Website: Clinton Letter Not Balfour Declaration – 181 & 194 Basis

The following editoral from the official Fatah website www.fateh.org/e_editor/99/300499.htm has several important statements: 1. The Clinton letter is not a 'Balfour Declaration'. 2. Rather than 242 and 338, the PLO will base future demands on 181...