An Insider’s Report From the Shepherdstown Talks
Shepherdstown, W. Va -- It is only a few hundred meters from the improvised press center in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, where this writer spent the better part of a week, to the conference center...
Official PA radio news – P.B.C. V.O.P. (Voice of Palestine) Radio: Saunday Afternoon February...
Israel Election Preview on V.O.P.
On Monday night and Tuesday morning, V.O.P. ushered in the Israeli elections-with a sharp escalation of anti-Sharon rhetoric and emphasis on a military escalation in the Gaza Strip alongside the...
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...
Importing Protest Professionals for the PLO Cause
At a time when few tourists are coming to Jerusalem and fewer people than ever are demonstrating support for the Palestinian cause, a group known as the International Solidarity Movement has organized 62 tourists...
Prof. Zimmerman Invokes Himmler Comparison
Some 60 people attended a talk by Prof. Slavoj Z'izek, Professor of Philosophy from the University of Lubliana, Slovenia, at a rally sponsored recently by "Yesh Gvul" in Jerusalem.
Prof. Z'izek's topic was Citizenship and...
Covering Left Wing Conferences in the US – in Boston and in Columbus
We dispatched a journalist to report on a conference that took place More gathered on the weekend of October 31-November 2nd in Boston, where more than 700 particpants discusse thee Geneva accords that have...
Will the Real Abu-Mazen Please Stand Up?
Does the Palestinian Arab press know something that the Israeli press does not know?
Even as the Hebrew press headlined the remarks of Mahmoud Abbas (a.k.a. Abu-Mazen) calling for an end to the "Intifada," the...
Beneath the Moderate Veneer
"If anyone deserves to be given a chance, this is the guy."
So declared Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, referring to PA Chair Mahmoud Abbas (aka Abu Mazen), in an address just this past...
A tribute from a Jewish Reporter in Jerusalem
The visit of Pope John Paul II in Israel will not be forgotten.
Yet not everything went smoothly.
Shortly after Pope John Paul II announced that he was coming to Israel with the genesis of the...
Incorporate UNRWA into UNHCR
Since the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees was established 55 years ago, the number of Palestinians registered on its dole has expanded exponentially. What was originally intended as a temporary...