Al-Ahram: Scott Ritter, Jews, Summer Market, Islam

The 'Mischief Maker' Bows Out by Special Correspondent Full Text It was clear that the Iraqi officials waiting on the tarmac last December were nervous. A 15-man UN weapons inspection team was about to land at the...

Al-Barghuthi Says ‘Thousands’ Trained for Possible Clash

... Al-Barghuthi believes that procedures to establish a Palestinian state have actually begun with the establishment of the first Palestinian Authority in our history. Since the establishment of that authority, he aid, the building...

PA Leader Faisal Huseini: PA Plans War 4th May, 1999

"We are willing to die; for them every death is a tragedy..." Oslo is dead and buried. The Palestinian youth, especially in the refugee camps, wants to start fighting again, and we are having...

Mofaz Sees Armed Conflict in 1999

Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Sha'ul Mofaz told a closed group of top Central Command officers last week that he sees the Command's chief mission as preparing for the armed conflict that he feels is...

The Security Situation Today

1) The Arabs in Judea and Samaria have for months been performing training exercises aimed at attacking the Jewish communities. I and others in the area have been trying desperately to bring this state...

Arafat’s Broken Promises

Guess the origin of the following declarations: "Zionism is . . . a racist and fanatical movement in its formation: aggressive, expansionist and colonialist in its aims; and fascist and Nazi in its means." ...

Al-Ahram: Hamas/PA Relations, Bin Laden

Dead or Alive? by Tareq Hassan "Some PA officials were quoted as saying.... was much weaker than originally thought; "as scary as a cat", some said." Excerpts Palestinian police lifted tight restrictions imposed earlier this week on...

PA Minister of Justice – Also Execute Land Dealers

IMRA interviewed Palestinian Authority Minister of Justice, Freih Abu Meddien, in English, on 31st August: IMRA: Do you see yesterdays' executions as setting a precedent for future cases or was it an exception? Meddien: Any crime...

PLC Rep Zughayar: Arafat Won’t Declare State Next May

IMRA interviewed Fatah Jerusalem Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) Ahmad Hashim Zughayar, Chairman of the PLC Jerusalem Committee, on 6th September, 1998. The English translation is via his son, Hiham Zughayar. IMRA: Do you expect President...

Refusal to Recognize Israel Widespread on Palestinian TV

A report documenting hundreds of cases in which the Palestinian media broadcast messages indicating an unwillingness to recognize the state of Israel, even within the 1948 borders, was distributed yesterday by the Palestinian Media...