|
|
|
|
|
|
Sunday, June 30th, 2002
The Palestinian refugee issue is one of the most intransigent aspects of the peace process, and one of the largest obstacles to a workable final status agreement between the Israelis and the Palestinians. According to the United Nations, the approximately 650,000 Palestinians refugees who left their homes in the wake of the 1948-1949 Arab Israeli […]
Full News Story
Sunday, June 30th, 2002
BackgroundSyrian President Bashar Al-Assad recently extended the term of Defense Minister Field Marshal Mustafa Tlass for another two years beyond mandatory retirement age, in appreciation of his service and his close connection with his father, former president Hafez Al-Assad. Tlass is one of the founding fathers of Syria’s current Ba’ath regime and has been a […]
Full News Story
Friday, June 28th, 2002
In our madly complex world of conventional and unconventional weapon systems, the fate of nations may hinge precariously on the quality of their strategic studies. Nowhere is this more certain than the State of Israel, which now faces the most urgent existential dangers since 1948. For Israel to survive these great dangers, especially the dire […]
Full News Story
Thursday, June 27th, 2002
President Bush concluded that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat must be removed from power after receiving Israeli intelligence that Arafat authorized a $20,000 payment to a group tied to one of last week’s suicide bombings in Israel, senior administration officials said yesterday. Bush’s decision to call for Arafat’s ouster has scrambled the administration’s efforts to win […]
Full News Story
Thursday, June 27th, 2002
IDF forces register important achievements in Hevron and elsewhere as Operation Determined Stand continues. Some 40 important wanted terrorists were ferreted out of their hiding places in PA headquarters in Hevron over the past two days, and ten more are assumed to still be there. The forces also found hundreds of explosives in the building; […]
Full News Story
Wednesday, June 26th, 2002
The proposed solution to the crisis in the Middle East is predicated on one notion: the return of the West Bank and all the other lands occupied by Israel after June 10, 1967. As the current conventional wisdom goes, our diplomatic efforts should be directed toward that single goal. Israel must give back conquered land. […]
Full News Story
Monday, June 24th, 2002
Mr. Chairman, it is my honor to contribute to the Committee’s important deliberations on the question “Are Yasser Arafat and the Palestinian Authority Credible Partners for Peace?” The answer is a resounding “No!” The reason for this is found in volumes of evidence documenting an unbroken record of deceit, incitement, corruption and murder. The strategy […]
Full News Story
Monday, June 24th, 2002
Damage may be done here at home on June 28th, when FBI Director Robert Mueller is scheduled to address the annual convention of the American Muslim Council (AMC). He is evidently doing so because — as Mr. Mueller’s spokesman put it last week — the FBI believes the AMC to be “the most mainstream Muslim […]
Full News Story
Sunday, June 23rd, 2002
Whenever a massacre occurs in Israel, Palestinian spokesmen rush out to say: ”Yes, this is terrible, but this is what happens when you have a people with no hope for an end to the occupation.” Apologists in the West invariably echo this exculpation/explanation. Of all the mendacity that pollutes Middle Eastern discourse, this one is […]
Full News Story
Sunday, June 23rd, 2002
If ever there was a definitive list of the anti-Israel members of Congress, we have it now. The following 23 members – two in the Senate and 21 in the House – voted against the House and Senate resolutions of support for Israel last month: Senators Robert Byrd, Democrat, WV Ernest Hollings, Democrat, SC House […]
Full News Story
|
|
|
|
|