Official PA radio news – the P.B.C. VOP (Voice of Palestine) Radio: January 29

Summary and Analysis In its Monday afternoon and evening broadcasts on January 29, VOP stressed remarks by Yasser Arafat at Davos (World Economic Forum) that "totally rejected" any "resettlement of refugees" and "leaving any refugees...

UN Hampered In Syrian CW Demolition

The United Nations has acknowledged continued obstacles in destroying Syria's chemical weapons arsenal. Officials said inspectors have been unable to reach key Syrian CW sites because of the Sunni revolt. They said this could prevent...

Fatah Website Editorial: Coordination Between “National and Islamic Forces”

Official Fatah Website Editorial: Sharon's Instinctive Aggression Sharon's Instinctive Aggression www.fateh.net/e_editor/01/300601.htm It can be said that the successive American administrations have made a number of foolish acts out of arrogance in their attempts to impose...

The Hamas Threat to Murder Gilad Shalit: Analysis

email: mkedar@mail.biu.ac.il Dr. Mordechai Kedar (Ph.D. Bar-Ilan U.) Served for 25 years in IDF Military Intelligence specializing in Arab political discourse, Arab mass media, Islamic groups and the Syrian domestic arena. This time the message is...

After Arafat

When Yasir Arafat became seriously ill in late 2003, Palestinians were near panic for several days. Officials did not know how to handle the crisis. Ahmad Dudin, former Fatah leader in the Hebron region,...

Analysis: Understanding What is Now Transpiring in Egypt

January 31, 2011 "Convoluted and Painful Process" The issues are anything but simple, and resolution of the situation in Egypt will not happen overnight, or in a week or a month. I do not intend to...

NEW UK GOVERNMENT WILL HAVE TO COPE WITH REPORT THAT LONDON HOSTS HAMAS

Jerusalem, Israel; The newly elected British government will have a new challenges on its hands: How to cope with a credible intelligence reports which provde hard evidence that Great Britain provides a a safe...

Iran Signals Its Readiness for a Final Confrontation

http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=1&DBID=1&LNGID=1 &TMID=111&FID=442&PID=0&IID=9990&TTL=Iran_Signals_Its_Readiness_ for_a_Final_Confrontation Since the publication of the November 2011 IAEA report, which explicitly spotlights Iran's plans to build nuclear weapons, senior figures of the Iranian regime and the state-run media have begun to use threatening, defiant,...

Tightening Military Cooperation between Iran and Syria

Iran and Syria have signed a military agreement that establishes Iran’s military involvement in Syria and strengthens Syrian air defense capability. Syrian officials say the agreement is in response to the “U.S. ‘Caesar’...

Nasrallah’s Decline

The war in Syria will bring an end to the career of two prominent leaders in the Middle East. The first, that of President Bashar Assad, will end quickly, maybe even by sword or...