Official PBC Radio: Voice of Palestine News February 1-2

Summary and Analysis The deaths of two Palestinians and two Israelis dominated the news programs on VOP on Thursday evening February 1 and Friday morning February 2-with the Palestinians classified as "martyrs" and the Israelis...

A Comprehensive Critique: Amnesty and Human Rights Issues in the Arab-Israeli Conflict

NGO Monitor Analysis (Vol. 1 No. 4) The cycle of death goes on and on... in the west there is a universal shaking of sophisticated heads and a weary, liberal sigh. Tut tut, there they...

Promoting Peace? Reexamining U.S. Aid to the Palestinian Authority

http://schanzer.pundicity.com/10310/promoting-peace-reexamining-us-aid-to Chairman Ros-Lehtinen, Ranking Member Berman, and distinguished members of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, on behalf of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, I thank you for the opportunity to discuss with you...

Sharon Sees Bush Standing Strong for Disarmament of the Terror Groups

Sharon's aides are convinced that in this visit , or rather in the interval between Abu Mazen's and Sharon's visit, the administration's attitude towards the new Palestinian government took a turn. This was the...

Kant on Perpetual Peace and the Seeds of Another War

Two hundred years ago, an essay entitled "Perpetual Peace" by German idealist philosopher Immanuel Kant argued: "no peace treaty may be deemed valid that contains within its provisions, the seeds of another war." This seemingly...

An Israeli Watershed: Strike on Syria

Summer 2008, pp. 57-62 On the morning of September 6, 2007, Israel Air Force (IAF) planes penetrated deep into Syrian airspace and attacked a nuclear facility near the town of Dayr al-Zur in the northeastern...

ASSAD’S REBOUND

The regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad has deployed thousands of troops, including Hizbullah fighters, for an offensive against rebel strongholds around Damascus. The opposition has reported a massive regime operation to expel the rebel...

A Professional Perspective on Terrorism

In my book “Modern Political Terrorism”, I attempt to explain that there are usually three parties involved in domestic or political abuse.(Published by Richard Altschuler & Associates 2007). A model posing the triad of predator,...

IRAN: THE RISE OF A REGIONAL POWER

Volume 10, No. 3, Article 10/10 September 2006 One of the most important developments in the early twenty-first century Middle East is the rise of Iran to become a regional great power. This has come about...

Commentary: The Livni-Rice Meeting and More

Foreign Minister Livni is in Washington and met with Sec. of State Rice. When a joint press conference was held, Livni made the statement that: "... stagnation is not Israel's government's policy." And there...