The Palestine Monitor, A PNGO Information Clearinghouse August 29, 2002 The situation in Nablus is currently very critical. The Israeli army has occupied the Palestinian governorate headquarters and the Red Crescent center in the city. The Palestinian Medical Relief building is surrounded and Israeli troops are preventing ambulances from moving freely.
The Palestine Monitor, A PNGO Information Clearinghouse August 29, 2002 The Israeli assault on Gaza continued last night with the area of Sheikh Ajleen coming under attack for the second consecutive night. Four Palestinians, were killed: Ruwaida Abdullah Lehjeen, 55 years old, her two sons, Ashraf (22) and Nehad Othman Lehjeen (19) and her nephew, [...]
By Israel Shamir A spectre haunts the West, a spectre that was not seen around for quite a while. Exorcized long ago, it was imprisoned in the dark lab like a deadly virus, bidding its time. Now, as Israel stoops to commit the most horrible of crimes, its supporters broke the seals and removed the [...]
By Ira “Catman” Glunts Glaringly absent from the current public debate about an American invasion of Iraq to remove Saddam Hussein from power, is a serious consideration of the disastrous effect upon the Palestinians and Israelis that any American invasion of Iraq could produce.
By Uri Avnery I have read the interview given by your commander, Major General Dan Halutz, and, like many others in Israel and abroad, I was shocked. On July 23, one of your comrades (or perhaps you yourself?) dropped a one-ton bomb on a house in a dense residential neighborhood in Gaza. The aim was [...]
by Ghassan Khatib* Nearly one year ago, the tragic events of September 11 set into motion significant changes in American Middle East policy that have had a negative impact on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The climax of that change was illustrated in the infamous June speech of President George W. Bush in which he nearly reclassified [...]
by Yossi Alpher* an Israeli View The projected United States campaign to remove Saddam Hussein and his regime from power in Iraq clearly serves an Israeli interest. Saddam is a threat to Israeli and indeed regional security and stability. But if the campaign fails, it is fraught with dangers for Israel, particularly with regard to [...]
The Palestine Monitor, A PNGO Information Clearinghouse August 21, 2002 Last nights killing of Muhammad Sa’adat, the brother of jailed PFLP leader Ahmad Sa’adat, was unfortunately predictable. Sa’adat, 23 years old from Al-Bireh was leaving a shop when a car stopped near him and six Israeli soldiers in an undercover unit leapt out; Sa’adat, who [...]
by Uri Avnery The topic of war crimes is now firmly fixed on the national and military agenda, and cannot be removed anymore.. This week there was a public outcry about the death of Nidal Abu-Muhsein in Tubas village on the West Bank. The 19 years old youngster was taken from his home by the [...]
By Ahmed Amr In the January 1975 issue of Commentary, Robert Tucker promoted the radical notion of invading Arab oil fields. It is worth noting that Commentary is a publication of the American Jewish Committee and is edited by Norman Podhoretz, one of the movers and shakers in the neo-conservative movement. The article was titled [...]
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