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Arafat’s Corruption: the Source of Palestinian Suffering?
According to surveys by the research center of the Israeli Yad Tabenkin, the West Bank per capita gross domestic product (GDP) before the Oslo accord in 1993 was approximately $3,500, and in Gaza, about...
Incisive Commentary
December 6, 2007
"Stumbling Blocks"
Here we have, as if they were needed, more reasons why negotiating with the PA is impossible:
The Hamas-dominated Palestinian Legislative Council has passed a law (first reading) saying that any concession...
Commentary: Expectations of War and Terror
Yesterday a report from a high ranking officer in the Southern Command was made public: Palestinians released in prisoner exchanges, he said, "always return to terrorism." Always. That's pretty clear, and pretty direct as...
Incisive Commentary
Posting: February 27, 2008
"More?!"
Over 40 Kassams were launched from Gaza today. Hamas has claimed credit for this barrage.
One rocket hit in Sderot near Sapir College, killing student Ronnie Yechiya, who was the father of...
“The Shepherd Hotel in Perspective”
This is going to be a two-part posting. I participated in a tour of eastern Jerusalem, which incorporated the Shepherd hotel of Sheikh Jarrah as well as part of the Shimon HaTzaddik neighborhood.
Today, I...
Arafat From Defender to Dictator. Part one of book summary
Arafat: From Defender to Dictator
by Said Aburish
Bloomsbury Publishers, London, 1998
Born August 24, 1929 in Cairo. Named Mohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat Al Qudua Al Husseini.(Muhammed Abdel Rahman-first name, Abdel Raouf - father's name,...
Briefing with Dr. Yuval Steinitz, Chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Security Committee
Yuval Steinitz was a Professor of Philosophy and a Peace Now activist. In 1994, when he saw that Oslo was a disaster, he did a great deal of soul searching and joined the Likud...
The Classified Diplomatic Cables Published by Wikileaks are the Pentagon Papers of the Pro-Israel...
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at a press conference in Tehran today.
Behrouz Mehri/AFP/Getty Images
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has positioned himself as a left-wing whistleblower whose life mission is to call the United States to task...
Covering Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman’s Press Conference in Tel Aviv
(Tel Aviv) December 29, 2002
Senator Joseph Lieberman made his final appearance in the middle east in a small press briefing that occurred near the US embassy in Tel Aviv on Sunday evening, December 29,...
Israel launches dialogue with the Saudis
ISRAEL, SAUDIS BEGIN DIALOGUE ON REGION The government of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has launched a dialogue with Saudi Arabia to ensure stability in the Middle East.
Western diplomatic sources said Olmert, with the help...
