A Successful Launching of Our Campaign Against the Perpetuation of the Occupation
On Friday and Saturday, March 12th and 13th, some 500 Israelis, joined by dozens of Palestinians, launched the Israeli Campaign Against the Perpetuation of the Occupation, notice of which you received earlier. Together we...
Cold Peace Encouraged at Palestinian Israeli Social Workers Workshop?
Monday March 9, by invitation of Dr. Elia Awwael, I attended the Palestinian-Israeli Social Workers Workshop held at the Nativity Hotel located in Bethlehem. The stated goals of the workshop included allowing Israelis and...
Damascus to Rearm Saddam
A secret deal has been agreed between Syria and Iraq for the supply of military equipment to Baghdad, according to Middle East intelligence sources.
Relations between the two countries have been improving significantly in recent...
Hezbollah Takes Another Step Toward Jerusalem
Last Monday, the South Lebanon-based terrorist group Hezbollah, funded and armed by Syria and Iran, set off a roadside bomb that killed an Israeli brigadier general in command of Israel's Lebanon operations, along with...
A State in the Making: Rights and Duties
President Arafat's mention of a possible confederation with Jordan has stirred numerous comments. The president's remarks, however, need to be understood in the context in which they were spoken.
At the time he made the...
Antisemitic Expression on Official Palestinian Authority Media?
Palestinian Media Watch, under the direction of Itamar Marcus, has released another sampling of recent anti-Semitic incitement in the Palestinian press. These include an article in the daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida from 18th January, 1999,...
Major Israeli Arab Political Party Strives to Replace Israel
A review of the National Democratic Alliance party platform finds that it works for the establishment of a regime in the region that would supercede Israel (article 15). The party also acts against encouraging...
Al-Ahram Weekly: Jordan Rejects Confederation with Arafat
Arafat's Ladder
by Graham Usher
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"With the dust barely settled on his father's grave, last week King Abdullah was confronted with the one issue he almost certainly would have preferred to have stayed buried, at least...
Am Echad: Preserving One Jewish Nation
Sunday's Mass Prayer Gathering
The Sunday, 14th February, prayer gathering of a broad cross-section of Orthodox Jews -- media estimates of the crowd ranged between 250,000 to 500,000 participants -- and was descibed by the...
Al-Ahram Weekly
Making Anti-Terrorism Global
by Jailan Halawi
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"Egypt's interior minister El-Adli seized the occasion of the Arab interior ministers' meeting in Amman to renew Egypt's call for an international conference on terrorism. The meeting, resolving to escalate...