Washington’s Betrayal

From the beginning of May until last Tuesday, the Palestinians carried out 323 terrorist attacks against Israeli targets. That is an average of 12 per day. These attacks include suicide bombings, penetrations of Israeli...

By-Laws of the European Parliament Award Special Treatment to South Africa and to… The...

Rules applicable to the secondment of national officials to the european parliament and secondment of european parliament officials and temporary staff of political groups to national, international and regional bodies 3 June 2003 The Bureau of...

War on Terror in West Bank “NOT SERIOUS”

Israeli Security officials today blamed the Palestinian Authority and its leader, Abu Mazen, for not fighting terror in the West Bank. This is unlike the situation in the Gaza Strip, where a considerable drop...

The New PA/Hamas Cairo Agreement: Authorization for Terror Against Israel

I read the Arabic text of the "Cairo statement"... The best man is Egypt. The happy couple are Abu Mazen on the one hand, and Hamas and the other extremist Palestinian organizations on the...

In the era of Abu Mazen, Universities Under the Jurisdiction of the Palestinian Authority...

In the era of Abu Mazen, universities in the Palestinian Authority administered territories continue to serve as centers of incitement: preaching for terrorism in a leaflet published by the Islamic Bloc, Hamas' student wing;...

Some US Congressional leaders worry that Gaza pullout amounts to appeasement

Nobody in the Republican-controlled Congress wants to be seen as opposing the wishes of both Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and the Bush administration. But quietly, the unilateral Israeli pullout from the Gaza Strip...

Will the Government of Israel Adhere to the law and forbid assets from falling...

The following query should be posed to spokespeople of the government of Israel: The government of Israel stresses that it has ordered its troops to "carry out the law". What is the government of Israel doing...

Abbas Approves PA Assistance to Families of Suicide Bombers

On the very day of a suicide bombing in Netanya, Machmud Abbas, the chairman of the Palestinian Authority gave budgetary approval to assistance for the families of suicide bombers. Each martyr's family will receive a...

This Week in the P.A. 6th February, 2006

Editor's note: Welcome to the sixth edition of "Inside the PA," a weekly on-line publication designed to provide an open-source and yet valuable insight into the workings of the Palestinian Authority. We will review important...

The Million Person Gap: A Critical Look at Palestinian Demography

Executive Summary: Population statistics and predictions of the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) are unreliable. A BESA study that subjects Palestinian demography to rigorous analysis shows that the 2004 Palestinian population of the...