Shalom Yuri – Eulogy for MK Yuri Shtern

Dr.Yuri Shtern, a member of the Knesset who came on Aliyah from the former USSR in 1981, died today at the young age of 58. I knew this man. Not as a politician. He came...

Commentary: A Call to Activism

I begin with a speech that PA President Mahmoud Abbas gave last Thursday, on the cusp of the arrival of Sec. Rice to this area. He spoke at a rally in Ramallah; the occasion...

Its role during difficult times: An Interim Report

When Karen AbuZayd succeeded Peter Hansen as Secretary-General in June 2005, Israelis who interfaced with her (from the Foreign Ministry and relevant offices of the IDF) expressed hopes that her style of functioning would...

Understanding the Arabic Nuances of Abbas’s Threat to Violence

The question remains, why Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas' s militant anti-Israel speech this week was not paid attention to, as reported in the here on January 11th, 2007: http://ibn.worldmedianetworks.com/bin/content.cgi?ID=2850&q=1 The reason, according to Palestinian Arabic language...

US Sec’y of State Rice Launches Initiative for Immediate Arms and Recognition of Palestinian...

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is promoting a new initiative to establish a temporary, sovereign and armed Palestinian state Rice will try to promote her initiative soon through extensive international shuttle diplomacy, which...

ABBAS REITERATES SUPPORT FOR THE ARMED STRUGGLE

(video footage available from the Center for Near East Policy Research. policyresearchi@yahoo.com ) "Our rifles, all our rifles are aimed at The Occupation," declared Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas today (January 11) in a major...

Commentary: Expectations of War and Terror

Yesterday a report from a high ranking officer in the Southern Command was made public: Palestinians released in prisoner exchanges, he said, "always return to terrorism." Always. That's pretty clear, and pretty direct as...

Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University.:Sans Action, Iranian Bomb Just A...

"Without military action, an Iranian nuclear bomb is a matter of time," according to the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University. A survey of the strategic balance in the Middle East in...

The Palestinians and the Second Lebanese War

"The Palestinians cannot be blamed for the Israeli government's erroneous decision to initiate a cease fire as the campaign against the Qassams was beginning to succeed." "Egypt, a realist player par excellence, has turned a...

Video Footage: Aftermath of January 5th Missile Attack in Sderot which Wrecked a Home

TV quality footage that Noam Bedein, media liason for the "Sderot Information Center for the Western Negev LTD", www.SderotMedia.com, filmed five minutes after a missile wrecked a home in Sderot on Friday, January 5th,...