Dahlan: Rice did not discuss dismantling groups with me

No warning to dismantle militant factions www.jerusalem-times.net/article/news/details/detail.asp?id=3759 Gaza-Muhammad Dahlan, Minister for Security Affairs denied Sunday the Israeli news reports that Condoleezza Rice, US president's National Security Advisor, had told him that the grace period of...

The Palestinian Security Forces and the Second Intifada

Presentation given at the National Press Club in Washington, DC on July 24th, 2003 (Presentation hosted by the Center For Near East Policy Research and the Israel Resource News Agency) Copyright © Gal Luft Introduction In the period...

A US State Department Middle East Policy Without US Congressional Authorization and Without Public...

The US State Department acts independently of US congressional approval in its implementation of middle east policy, while obfuscating basic facts from the Executive Branch of the US government, leaving the White House and...

CMIP Briefing:The latest Palestinian Authority School Books – Hardly a Curriculum for Peace

The new report of the Center for Monitoring the Impact of Peace, just released, represents the fifth time CMIP has done a review of textbooks used by the Palestinian Authority. In the early years...

Syria, Egypt Trying To Protect Terror Groups, Israeli Lawmaker Says

Both Egypt and Syria are making efforts to protect terrorist groups and their infrastructure from the global war on terrorism, an Israeli lawmaker said here. As part of that effort, Egypt did its utmost to...

Briefing with Dr. Yuval Steinitz, Chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Security Committee

Yuval Steinitz was a Professor of Philosophy and a Peace Now activist. In 1994, when he saw that Oslo was a disaster, he did a great deal of soul searching and joined the Likud...

Fighting the Effort to Demand that Israel Free Murderers

The international community, concerned with strengthening the position of Palestinian Prime Minister Abu Mazen, is urging Israel to release Palestinians who have murdered Israelis. There is something terribly out of balance here. Both a lack...

Prisoner or Terrorist? Terminology Counts

The US demands that Israel release Arab terrorists from its jails. 6,256 Arab terrorists have been apprehended by Israel murdering people or for attempting to murder people in the 18,546 Arab terror attacks which have...

Camp David: Three Years Later

Three years ago today, on July 10, 2002, the Israeli prime minister at the time, Ehud Barak, flew to a summit with Yasser Arafat at Camp David. Upon leaving Israel, Barak spoke of an...

Arafat’s Well Planned Ambush of Abu Mazen

Arafat planned his ambush of Abu Mazen meticulously. On Monday he convened about 40 members of the Palestinian leadership at the mukataa. There were members of the PLO Executive Committee, the Fatah Central Committee...