Amru Nasif, a columnist for the Egyptian opposition weekly Al-Usbu´, recently published an article that calls for – in the most frank and most chilling terms – suicide attacks against Israel; the writer even volunteers to “join the ranks of martyrs.” Following are excerpts of his article, published on May 28th, and courtesy of the […]

Dr. Faysal Al-Qasem’s weekly talk show of May 15,2001, on the Qatar TV channel Al-Jazeera, discussed the question, “Is Zionism worse than Nazism?”(1) Against the background of this program were on the one hand, the anti-Semitic remarks made by Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, and on the other, the manifest signed by 14 Arab intellectuals, denouncing […]

Amru Nasif, a columnist for the Egyptian opposition weekly Al-Usbu’, calls for martyrdom operations to defeat Israel and volunteers to join the ranks of martyrs. Following are excerpts of his article (1): “…with every blow struck by the Al-Aqsa Intifada, my conviction grows stronger that I, and all those who are of the same mind, […]

Head of the political department in the PLO, Farouq Al-Qaddoumi called for attacks on American and European interests in the Middle East. Following are excerpts of his statement: “The political discourse is now changing. We don’t want speeches but rather acts. The masses have to translate this political discourse into action. [Let me be] loud […]

In an article entitled "To Whom does Haifa belong?" in the PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, columnist Kheiri Mansur repeats Palestinian accusations that Israel forges history and archeology to falsely establish the Jewish right to Israel. But this article expands these accusations to include Haifa, which is part of pre-1967 Israel. "The latest historical forgery committed […]

In his weekly column in the Egytpian weekly “Ahbar Al-Yaum” [May 5, 2001], renowned Egyptian playwright and supporter of peace, Ali Salem, criticizes the enemies of peace in Egypt. “War between Egypt and Israel is impossible in President Mubarak’s era even if the Israeli public elects Odavia Yosef who is so hateful towards the Arabs. […]

Part 2: The Debate over Political and Moral Legitimacy The dispute about the legitimacy of suicide attacks is not the exclusive territory of Muslim religious figures. Politicians and columnists too expressed their opinions on the matter. For example, columnist Muhammad Masharqa wrote in Yanabi’ – the supplement of the PA newspaper, Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, under the […]

Part 1: The Debate over Religious Legitimacy The Arab media has recently plunged into a debate concerning the religious, political and moral legitimacy of the Palestinian suicide bombings against Israel. The leading Sunni-Islamic authorities, as well as political officials and columnists took part in the debate. The question of the religious legitimacy of suicide attacks […]

The Egyptian government daily, Al-Ahram, echoes Qadhafi’s accusations against the US and Israel: “Our brother, the Colonel Mu’ammar Al-Qadhafi, the leader of the Libyan revolution, revealed that two years ago Libyan children in the city of Benghazi suffered from the most abominable crime in the history of mankind, when foreign nurses injected them with the […]

(NEW YORK) Over the past few years, the State Department has offered a wide variety of unusual excuses for refusing to offer rewards to help capture Palestinian Arab killers of Americans-but now it has come up with the most incredible excuse yet: that offering rewards “would be detrimental” to efforts to capture the killers! The […]