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...

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...

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...

What Will Occur After Three Months of the Hudna?

October 3, 2003 goes into the history books as "black Friday." At 2:00 p.m., a group of soldiers that had just finished its shift at the General staff headquarters stood on the road passing...

A Profile of Mahmoud Abbas, a.k.a. Abu Mazen

There are allegations that Abbas funded the terrorist attack at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. For Germany, the 1972 Munich Olympics were supposed to be "the Carefree Games." There was to be no barbed...

How Palestinian Arab Organizations Currently Compete With Each Other to Take Credit for Terror...

Two weeks ago, on the eve of the 18th of Sivan, the child Noam Leibowitz was murdered in a shooting attack on the Trans-Israel Highway. Her brother and grandfather were injured in the terror...

Palestinian Authority Security Services Offer Positions to Fateh Terrorists

Palestinian sources said at least one PA security chief relayed an offer to provide a job to any Fatah militant who pledges to surrender his weapon and abandon the war against Israel. The offer...

Dennis Ross Declares Tanzim to be Peaceful And Trusts Abu Mazen Like He Trusted...

After a week of violence that followed the Aqaba summit, most Middle East observers are pessimistic about breaking the Israeli-Palestinian stalemate. Yet after a week of extensive discussions with both sides, I believe it's...