Dear Friends, Do you agree with those who say that “the Palestinians have been doing a better job than the Israelis on the public relations front”? Yes. For the past twenty years, the Palestinians have outmaneuvered the Israelis in framing the conflict for the world media. The turning point came during the 1982 Lebanon War, […]

As an increasing number of intellectuals speak out against the Israeli onslaught in Palestine, very few have broken the conspiracy of silence in Britain. In Oxford, Omayma Abdel-Latif meets the Irish poet Tom Paulin We are fed this inert This lying phrase Like comfort food As another little Palestinian boy In trainers jeans and a […]

According to an article in the Egyptian newspaper al-Ahram Weekly, the Arab Republic of Egypt is heavily involved in “managing the Intifada,” as the piece’s title reads. The talks in Cairo between Fatah, Hamas and other terrorist gangs are “dedicated to ‘discussing’ rather than ‘stopping’ operations inside Israel’s 1967 borders (the Green Line),” reports the […]

In an article that appeared January 3, 2003, on the website of the Egyptian opposition newspaper al-Sha’ab, Hamas spokesman ‘Abd al-Aziz Al-Rantisi calls for Iraqis to confront the “Crusader” enemy with faith in Allah, unity, and an army of suicide bombers. As he writes, “There is no other way than to establish thousands of squads […]

In a recent article in the Jordan Times, it was reported that “opposition parties… urged Prime Minister Ali Abul Ragheb to scrap the… peace treaty with Israel, dismiss its ambassador in Amman and stop all normalization activities….” The letter calling for ending relations with the Jewish state was signed by representatives of several opposition parties, […]

Following Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s announcement that al-Qaeda had set up cells and was operating in Gaza and from within the Palestinian Authority, the PA press was replete with stories claiming that, in fact, it was the Israeli secret service recruiting Arab youths, while letting them think they were working for Osama bin Laden. The […]

A communiqué in which the Al-Qa’ida organization took responsibility for the Mombasa, Kenya terror attacks was first posted on the “News about the Jihad and the Mujahideen” forum of the Islamist website www.mojahedoon.net by Abu Shihab Al-Qandahari, the forum’s deputy moderator. Al-Qandahari posted another communiqué in which he threatened Americans with a terror attack on […]

In the first statement of its kind, a senior Iraqi official confirmed that his country is not ruling out the possibility of using weapons of mass destruction to defend the regime. His statements were published in a lead article in today’s London-based Arabic-language daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi, which is known to support Saddam Hussein. (1) The […]

Dear MEMRI Subscribers, Beginning today, November 5, 2002, MEMRI will make segments of programming originally broadcast on Iqraa TV available on www.memri.org/video as streaming video. The subtitled videos, which will include transcripts, will be released as a three part series. The first three segments are now available at www.memri.org/video; subsequent segments will follow. Segments included […]

NEW YORK – The official Palestinian Authority newspaper has accused the CIA of masterminding the Muslim Chechnyan terrorist siege of a Moscow theater that resulted in the deaths of 118 hostages.     Fuad Abu Hajleh, senior columnist for the PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadidah, wrote on October 29, 2002 that the CIA masterminded the attack in […]