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Barak’s “Red Line” Coalition
Quotes from text:
"There are enough hawks in Israel's emerging coalition -- including perhaps Barak -- to insure that no withdrawal from occupied south Lebanon is likely to be forthcoming without firm Syrian or international...
Damascus to Rearm Saddam
A secret deal has been agreed between Syria and Iraq for the supply of military equipment to Baghdad, according to Middle East intelligence sources.
Relations between the two countries have been improving significantly in recent...
Hezbollah Takes Another Step Toward Jerusalem
Last Monday, the South Lebanon-based terrorist group Hezbollah, funded and armed by Syria and Iran, set off a roadside bomb that killed an Israeli brigadier general in command of Israel's Lebanon operations, along with...
Al-Ahram Weekly
Making Anti-Terrorism Global
by Jailan Halawi
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"Egypt's interior minister El-Adli seized the occasion of the Arab interior ministers' meeting in Amman to renew Egypt's call for an international conference on terrorism. The meeting, resolving to escalate...
King Hussein: A Security Asset – But No Friend
King Hussein of Jordan will go down in history as a security asset to the US, Great Britain, and, in his final years, to the state of Israel.
That does not mean that King Hussein...
The Forces the Brought Crown Prince Hassan Down
The following is an adaptation of an article that appeared in The Wall Street Journal European Edition on Monday, January 25, 1999.
One might question the wisdom of the Clinton Administration's ongoing attempts to secure...
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,...
The Israeli Elections
Bang! A starting gun shooting blanks. The candidates are off and running in the Israeli Knesset sweepstakes.
Nine of them have taken the field thus far, on the track for would-be prime minister in Israel.
Israel's...
Update on Iraq: The US Suddenly Wakes Up?
An Israeli reader reported that at the Likud Central Committee meeting on the Wye accord, some members criticized the Gov't for relying on the US to enforce Palestinian compliance with the provisions on fighting...
Israel Prepares for Trouble
Israel radio on Monday, July 13, reported that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met secretly with seven cabinet ministers for the third time on Sunday, to develop a "strategic policy" for dealing with the...
