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...

PA Security Chief: We Drafted 25 Hamas Terrorists into Palestinian Security Forces to Protect...

Following are excerpts of an interview on 24th September, 1998, with Muhammad Dahlan, head of the Palestinian Preventive Security Service in Gaza, which was conducted by the official Palestinian Authority newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadeeda. Question: The...

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...

Scenario One: Commando Units in Tel Aviv

As the school year finally began this year in Israel, following the teacher's strike, Meretz MK Yossi Sarid made an appeal on the "Voice of Israel" radio newsreel. Sarid advised principals, teachers and parents to...

How the Palestinian Media Reacted to the Attack on Iraq

On a few occasions, as reported by the Palestinian media, high-ranking figures have called for violence and support of Iraq: The Palestinian Minister of Public Works and Ambassador to Iraq, Azzam Al-Ahmad, said in an...

That Was the Week That Was in the Official Media of the Palestinian Authority

The Palestinian media highlighted the latest in the negotiations with Israel and preparations for final status negotiations. The lead story concerned the dispute between Israel and the Palestinian Authority over plans by Prime Minister...

NATO’s Campaign of Deception in Kosovo?

Citizens of a free country ought to expect they won't be burdened with the kind of propaganda barrage that has come to be associated with Nazi "interior ministers" such as Josef Goebbles or Soviet...

The Israeli Arabs and the Palestinian Authority Ultimatums in Perspective

A troubling poll result Instead of telling you what I think Israeli Arabs think, I would like to share with you what a representative sample of 500 Israeli Arabs told pollsters last November in a...

Palestinian Refugee Issue Complicates Israeli-PA Negotiations

Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) -- Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat heads to Washington next week, with two issues foremost in his mind: the future of Jerusalem and the future of Palestinian refugees who fled their homes...

PA Leadership Calls for Continuing the Intifada

Arab Action Expected Speaking to a conference in Tunis, PA Chairman Yasir Arafat said: "Just as the Palestinian and Tunisian blood mixed at Hamam al-Shat so will the Palestinian blood mix with the Arab...