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Commentary: A Word of Caution
A word of caution is in order today regarding what seem to be peaceful overtures.
Spain has just hosted a Spanish-Arab conference in Madrid that 19 members of the Arab League attended.
(It is, I will...
Testimony presented to: Hearing of the Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia...
February 14, 2007
2172 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C.
Chaired By: Representative Gary L. Ackerman (D-NY)
Witnesses:
David Makovsky, Director, Project on the Middle East Peace Process, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy;
Martin S. Indyk, Director, Saban...
The Illusion of “Peace in Exchange for Territories”
For years, especially since the 1991 Madrid Peace Conference, Arab leaders have repeated the mantra that peace with Israel hinges upon a withdrawal to the pre-1967 border. Similar rhetoric followed with the Arab Summit's...
Strange Happenings at Hillel
The Hillel Foundation exists on campuses all across the United States. Its purpose, of course, is to provide a place on campus where Jewish students can mingle, socialize and, of course, do Jewish" things....
Who UNRWA is, and what we do
As frequently as times and seasons change, so do allegations against UNRWA emerge in the media, often at moments of political uncertainty. Hence it is with some weariness that I address the latest spate...
The signing of the Mecca agreement
Mecca - Ma'an exclusive - Fatah and Hamas have signed the Mecca agreement. The media advisor to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Nabil 'Amr, read the text of the agreement and the letter of assignment...
Terror United
Last Monday's suicide terror attack in the southern Israeli resort city of Eilat, which resulted in the murder of three civilians in a bakery, should end the perception that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas...
Why not an EU-led trusteeship?
From the Israeli perspective, attempts to find a way out of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict have been stymied by a conceptual contradiction never faced before.
On the one hand, there is a broad consensus among the...
Will the US decision to arm the Palestinian Authority’s Military Capability Backfire on the...
The day after the armed forces of Palestinian Authority President Machmud Abbas shared credit for the bombing of a bakery in the Israeli port city of Elat which claimed the lives of three young...
Abbas condemns Eilat bombing [says bad PR and ineffective]
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has on Tuesday renewed his rejection and condemnation of the bombing operation in Eilat which he portrayed as unnecessary and useless for the Palestinian people.
From Cairo, where he is meeting...
