Ten US State Department Middle East Policies… to Challenge
American citizens often ask what they can do for Israel when they are in touch with their Congressional representatives.
Perhaps the most important thing they can do is to challenge the Ten Principles of The...
Abbas Inverts Reality
The May 26th Wall Street Journal commentary "Message to Ariel Sharon," by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, shouldn't surprise. For Abbas is master at turning truth on its head.
Yet, it does surprise, for its...
Mixed Messages from the Official Palestinian Authority Media
June 15, 2005
There is a sense of drift in the Palestinian Authority as reflected in a welter of mixed and contradictory messages in the Palestinian media:
On the one hand, Voice of Palestine opened its...
Is the Palestinian Authority Headed for Collapse?
The Palestinian Authority is quietly bracing for the prospect of collapse.
PA officials said numerous officials have fled or plan to leave the West Bank for Jordan and other Arab states. They said the assessment...
Would Uprooting Jews Violate International Humanitarian Treaties?
Plans by the Israeli Government to forcibly remove Jews from their homes in the West Bank and Gaza breach the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 1966 as well as the United...
Saudia Continue to Allow Their Citizens to Fund al Qaida
WASHINGTON -- The United States has determined that Saudi Arabia continues to allow citizens to finance Al Qaida, including its insurgency campaign in Iraq.
U.S. officials said that despite numerous appeals the Saudi kingdom...
Abbas: Israeli Withdrawal Should not Be Linked to Disarming Factions
GAZA, August 9, 2005, - President Mahmoud Abbas stressed on Tuesday that the Israeli withdrawal should not be linked to any other issue.
In a speech before Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) in Gaza, the President...
Parents Furious As Education Ministry Passes On Bible Studies
Parents and teachers are furious with the Education Ministry's decision to allow principals of junior high schools to decide not to teach bible studies in the seventh grade or, alternatively, to elect to study...
Why the Evacuees Must Sue: The Time Has Come for Class Action Suits
The Evacuation-Compensation Law is written in such a way, so that the only redress for many of the items is through appropriate litigation steps.
This is built into the law.
It includes such items as: compensation...
The Israel Left Organizes to Demand European Intervention fo Stop the Israeli Army
CALLING EUROPE!
The internationally-lauded "disengagement" from Gaza did not end the occupation there. This continued in the form of an Israeli stranglehold over Gaza's communications with the outside world. The Gaza Strip has been turned...