TIPH — A textbook case in the failure of “peace observers”

The specified objective of the TIPH (Temporary International Presence in Hebron) observers is "to provide a feeling of security among the Palestinians in the city of Hebron and to contribute to the renewal of...

General Sharon on the Ground

This week Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was reminded of an officer by the name of Amnon Schwartzburg, a member of Kibbutz Beit Alpha, whom he had recommended for a favorable citation after the paratrooper...

Arafat’s New Army

On Tuesday, a few hours after Yuri Gushtzin was murdered and his body dumped near the slaughterhouse in Ramallah, the "el-Aksa Martyrs Brigades," the military arm of Fatah, took responsibility for the murder. The announcement...

President Arafat Received the Letter of Credentials of the new German Ambassador And the...

GAZA - July 28 - WAFA (Official Palestine News Agency) - President Yasser Arafat received in His Headquarters in Gaza this morning, the credential letter of Mr. Andreas Reinieke, the new German representative to...

Israel Internal Security Chief Avi Dichter: ‘Israeli Arab demos prompted Intifada’

Israeli Arab demonstrations after then-opposition leader Ariel Sharon went to the Temple Mount last September prompted the Palestinian Intifada, Shin Bet Chief Avi Dichter told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee yesterday. In his...

Iranian airlift sends more arms to Hezbollah – via Damascus Int’l Airport

Iran has transfered hundreds of tons of weapons, ammunition and other materials to the Hezbollah through Syria in recent days, according to reliable sources. The deliveries were airlifted in by giant Antonov 124 transport...

40 Palestinian Authority Organizations Attack Bi’tselem

40 Palestinian Authority Organizations condemn "B'Tselem biased position towards Settlements & Settlers in the Occupied Territories": July 3rd, 2001 On 21.6.01 B'Tselem issued a press release entitled 'B'Tselem condemns Palestinian statements supporting attacks against settlers'....

PLO Security Chief Mohammad Dahlan Interviewed: “Most of the People in Israel Want War”

Just a few weeks after Ma'ariv published my colleague Ben Caspit's exclusive story about Arafat's instructions to kill settlers, the Arabic translation of the story was placed on the desk of Mohammed Dahlan, commander...

PLO War Plans Under Way

In Nablus, Jenin, and Gaza,they are preparing for war. Officials in the Palestinian Authority fear that an Israeli invasion of PA territory will happen in a matter of days. Their assumption is that Israel is waiting...

Families of Slain Americans Upset by State Dept. Treatment

Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) - The families of two Americans recently murdered by Palestinians say their grief has been compounded by the treatment they received from U.S. diplomatic missions in Israel, according to sources in Jerusalem. Two...