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In what will assuredly be seen as one of the greater gaffes of his career, former president Jimmy Carter dramatically reassured a packed crowd of diplomats and reporters this week that Hamas would now...

General Summary On the eve of PLO leader Mahmoud Abbas's planned visit to Washington, the broadcast media of the Palestinian Authority (PA) maintained a generally tough anti-Israeli and sometimes even anti- American posture, regarding talks...

The course of history can be changed by the determination of one man who stands up for what he believes in when he is listened to by people who are in a position of...

Al Ayyam, Oct. 9, 2005 Seeking shelter from Palestinian gun battles. Executive Summary: Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has agreed to a virtual Egyptian takeover of the Gaza Strip and has invited other Arab regimes to plant...

http://www.unwatch.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2. aspx?c=bdKKISNqEmG&b=1330815&ct=11106989 H. E. Laura Dupuy Lasserre President, Human Rights Council United Nations Palais des Nations CH-1211 Geneva 10 Switzerland Aug. 9, 2011 Dear Madam President, We, an international coalition of non-governmental and human rights organizations, urge the UN Human Rights Council to end...

http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=7112 Several factors are at the base of the military success of ISIS and other jihadist organizations: the structural and functional weaknesses of Arab nation states; the organizations’ networked and decentralized structure, which makes it...

http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=53455 PCHR Palestinian Centre for Human Rights Press Release Ref: 85/2011 Date: 18 August 2011 Time: 12:00 GMT PCHR Is Concerned Security Services’ Interference into Public Liberties in Gaza The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) is gravely concerned over increasing assaults...

http://jcpa.org/article/qatars-support-of-hamas-jihadist-forces/#sthash.dk14HQuF.dpuf Vol. 14, No. 30       September 23, 2014 Qatar is unquestionably engaged in international terrorist financing. According to the U.S. Treasury’s division for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, “Qatar, a longtime U.S. ally, has...

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...

GAZA: U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for the Near East Martin Indyk, on an introductory tour of various Mideast capitals, said President Clinton and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright remain committed to moving the...