PLO Invites Hamas and Islamic Jihad to join on the Basis of “The Phased...
Official Palestinian media declared on March 29th, 2005 that Mahmoud Abbas's Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the HAMAS and Islamic Jihad organizations have agreed in principle to full unification, with all sides recognizing the...
“Generic” Complaint that Can be Filed Against the U.S. State Department for Coercing Jews...
(This "generic letter" can be used as the basis for anyone who would like to make claim against the U.S. State Department in the matter of American support for the policies of Ariel Sharon...
Lack of a U.S. Response to the Planned Executions of “Collaborators” at the Order...
This much seems clear: Palestinian Authority executions of "collaborators" are scheduled to take place shortly. The full particulars are difficult to verify.
On February 17, 2005, news broke in Israel that Palestinian Authority Chair Mahmoud...
A Strategic Assessment
This piece assesses the implications of the Sharon government's success last week in pushing through its Gaza withdrawal plan, in terms of historically unprecedented nature of this step and its legally dubious nature, then...
Sharon’s 10 premises for his withdrawal plan should be questioned
1. "The successful withdrawal from Southern Lebanon is a precedent for everything that will take place in Gaza and Northern Samaria after the withdrawal from these areas".
Deputy prime minister, Minister Ehud Olmert, said in...
The Myth of the “Settlement Bloc Assurance”
This week, the Israeli public has come to learn that President George W. Bush never promised Ariel Sharon that the US government would support the retention of settlement blocs in Judea and Samaria.
Sharon was...
Israel Can’t Use US Law Enforcement Equipment to Violate Human Rights
This week, at Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon, in southern Israel, the Israel Defence Forces will conduct an exercise to conduct a "dry run" to practice bringing dead and wounded Jewish Israeli residents to the...
Abbas Expected to Push for Direct US Aid Following Congressional Setback
Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, on his upcoming visit to Washington, is likely to raise with congressional leaders the recent US foreign aid package that forbade direct assistance to the Palestinian Authority.
The legislation, which...
A Security Error of Historical Magnitude
Strategic Assessment
Volume 7, No. 3, December 2004
Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, Tel Aviv University
The Aims of the Disengagement Plan
On April 18, 2004, the Israeli government issued a general outline of its proposed unilateral disengagement...
Incitement from Official PA Cleric in Friday Mosque Sermon
Palestinians warn of al-Aqsa attack in mosque incitement, Qreia briefing, while pushing tough line
In a fiery official sermon on Palestinian State Television Friday (March 18, 2005), Palestinian preacher Sheikh Ibrahim Mudeiris declared that the...