The Real Hot Issue of the Sharon Plan – Not the Settlements Near Gaza

The hot issue of dismantling Israeli settlements contiguous to Gaza provided a distraction for the even hotter issues that are inherent in the Sharon Plan that was voted on in the Israeli cabinet oN...

Disclosed: Weissglass Maintains His Business and Law Firm

In December 2002, Israel Resource News Agency publicized the fact that Dov Weissglass the office manager and the long time private law counsel of the Prime Minister, was still listed in the Israel Corporate...

Arafat: Palestinian Right of Return a Sacred, Inalienable Right

On the 56th anniversary of "NAKBA", Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat said Saturday that no power in the entire world has the right to make concessions on the right to return of the Palestinian...

A Black Cloud Over Humanity, Israel and the Jewish People

Every April, the walls of the Armenian Quarter, which lead to the Jewish Quarter in the Old City in Jerusalem, are plastered with posters, reminding the people of Israel of the Armenian genocide. Throughout...

Will AIPAC Allow for Equal Time to Olmert?

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), sometimes dubbed in the U.S. press as the "Israel lobby," is being courted this week by Ariel Sharon's second-in-command, Ehud Olmert, to present Sharon's Retreat Plan. Olmert, Israel's...

Knesset Committee Conducts Investigation of Alleged Espionage Activities of “Peace”

This week, the Israeli "Peace Now" organization revealed that it has been conducting aerial surveillance of Israeli Jewish communities in Judea, Jerusalem and Samaria, to determine the extent of settlement expansion. At the same...

Disengagement from Reality

As a former New Yorker living in Israel for the past thirty-seven years I am delighted that the internet allows me to read my favorite hometown paper every day. Permit me, then, to express...

Jeff Halper and the Committee Against House Demolitions… Reconsidered

Many things have changed since Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) founder and executive coordinator Jeff Halper made aliyah nearly 30 years ago: LP's and Beta Max have become CD's and VCR's only to...

Poland and Beyond: A Perspective

It's been two weeks since I returned home from leading my first "March of the Living" group to Poland and I am still sorting out my thoughts and feelings. Like many, I have my...

“Voice of Palestine” of the Palestinian Authority Praises Murder of a Pregant Woman and...

The PA radio, known as the PBC "Voice of Palestine", remains the most influential media tool in the hands of the Palestinian Authority, which now observes ten years since the genesis of Palestinian Authority...