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Who Will Succeed Arafat And Why?
May 19, 2002
For all intents and purposes Yasir Arafat is Mr. Palestine, he has been the symbol, the substance, the servant and the savior of the Palestinian national movement. His time in power, however, although it may not be numbered in days or months, will certainly last no more than a year or two. Who will be his successor continues to intrigue many observers of the Palestinian political scene. A closer look at Palestinian factionalism and the internal ...
It Is Not Up To The Likud Party
May 13, 2002
t is not up to the Likud Party or any other political party in Israel to decide whether or not a Palestinian state should be created. The eventual establishment of a Palestinian state has been and will continue to be the Palestinians' national right...
Pressing Ahead With The Changing Dynamic In The Mideast
May 5, 2002
The Bush administration's call for an international conference on the Middle East this Summer was precipitated by the convergence of events that has dramatically changed the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The proposed conferen...
The Palestinians' Disastrous Miscalculation
April 21, 2002
By believing that they could force Israel out of the West Bank through violence as Hizbullah presumably had forced Israel to evacuate Southern Lebanon, the Palestinian leadership have made a disastrous mistake. Their equating Southern Lebanon with the W...
Guilty Of Perpetuating The Palestinians' Plight
April 14, 2002
From the birth of Israel in 1948 to this day, no individual entity, group or state has undermined the Palestinian cause and perpetuated their plight more than the Arab states collectively. It remains up to the Arab leaders, especially those of Egypt, Sa...
It Is Time For Coercive Diplomacy
April 5, 2002
President Bush's decision to dispatch Secretary of State Colin Powell to the Middle East to seek a cease-fire and search for a political solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is critical and overdue. Secretary Powell's prospects for success, ...
The Ball Is In Our Court
March 31, 2002
The United States, and only the United States, is the final political arbiter between Israel and the Palestinians, for only we have the power to stop the current ferocious cycle of mutual destruction. Unfortunately, up until now the Bush administration h...
Negotiating A Way Out Of The Morass
March 18, 2002
NEW YORK, March 18 (UPI) -- The momentum generated by Crown Prince Abdullah's peace proposal, the United Nation's resolution calling for the immediate cessation of hostilities and the establishment of a Palestinian state, and the Bush administration...
Occupation Could Have Ended In 2000
March 17, 2002
NEW YORK, April 22 (UPI) -- NEW YORK, April 22 (UPI) -- In an article by Akram Baker, a former communications advisor to the Palestinian Minister for Jerusalem Affairs (the late Faisal Husseini), and published by UPI on April 18, the writer strongly ad...
Facing a Crisis of Leadership
March 8, 2002
Both Prime Minister Sharon and Chairman Arafat owe it to their own people to provide the Arab League meeting in Lebanon with an opportunity to deliberate Crown Prince Abdullah's peace proposal in an environment not poisoned by the mounting body count. P...
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