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Bombs in Machaneh Yehudah and American Assuarances
The car bomb that exploded in Jerusalem's bustling Machane Yehudah marketplace on Friday morning found me in the city of Hebron, now under the rule of the Palestine Authority, only an hour south of...
Can the Arabs Ever Use Their Oil Power Weapon Again?
The focus of the industrial West has, for many years, been drawn to the oil-bearing nations of the Middle East because they needed oil. As a repository of developed and yet to be developed...
U.S. Letters of Assurance to Israel
Embassy of the United States of America
Tel Aviv
October 30, 1998
Mr. Dani Naveh
Cabinet Secretary
Office of the Prime Minister
Jerusalem
Dear Dani,
I wanted to confirm our policy on the issues of Reciprocity/Parallelism, Permanent Status Negotiations, and Prisoner Releases....
Letter from UNRWA Official
David Bedein's article "Why is the Shuafat Refugee Camp Seething?" (Israel Resource Review, October 13) outlines some of the urgent problems facing refugee camp residents, but it unfairly places the blame on the wrong...
A Police Chief Calls Wye Accord a Temporary Truce – Jabali Says PA Will...
Following are remarks made by Palestinian Police Chief Col. Ghazi Jabali which were broadcast on official Palestinian Authority television on October 30, 1998, one week after the signing of the Wye River Memorandum between...
Palestinian Comments on the Wye River Memorandum
Following is a summary of the comments found in the Palestinian media regarding the treaty signed on Friday between Israel and the PLO.
Changing the Palestinian Covenant
Unlike the English version of the memorandum, according to...
Senior Palestinian Official: PNC Will Not Convene to Amend the Covenant
This is the first in a series of periodic updates on issues relating to Palestinian compliance with the October 23, 1998 Wye River Memorandum. This update focuses on the Palestinian obligation to amend the...
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...
Ex-Weapons Inspector Ritter: Don’t Count on Us Monitoring of Wye
Ritter is a former UN weapons inspector in Iraq.
Question: I understand you have some concerns regarding the implementation of the Wye accord?
Ritter: Yes, indeed. The accord is to be monitored by the CIA, but...
Brinkmanship on a Lame Duck Plantation
I spent the good part of a week covering the middle east talks at the Wye Plantation, on the Eastern shores of the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland, USA, in an area that is best...
