In a conference in Cairo supporting Sheikh Umar Abd Al-Rahman, who was convicted and imprisoned in the U.S. for his involvement in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York, speakers threatened additional terrorist attacks against American targets if their leader in not released. Following are excerpts from a report about the […]

The London based daily Al-Hayat published a letter by S’ud Ibn Muhammad Al-‘Aqili, from the King Fahd National Library in Saudi Arabia, which condemned the Palestinian Authority’s use of children in the Intifada. Following are excerpts from the letter: “It is difficult for me to talk about this subject while [Muslim] clerics keep silent and […]

On May 31, 1994, Kifaya Husayn, a 16-year-old Jordanian girl, was lashed to a chair by her 32-year-old brother. He gave her a drink of water and told her to recite an Islamic prayer. Then he slashed her throat. Immediately afterward, he ran out into the street, waving the bloody knife and crying, ‘I have […]

Introduction The Palestinian demand for the Right of Return for the refugees was one of the reasons for the failure of the Camp David summit and for the Palestinians’ objection to the Clinton proposals. While the Camp David negotiations and the Clinton proposals focused on the possibility that the refugees would have the right to […]

The editor of the Egyptian oppostion weekly, Al-Usbu, Mustafa Bakri described “a dream” in which he was sent by the Egyptian government to serve as a bodyguard for Ariel Sharon on the latter’s visit to Egypy. In the dream-appearing in the Febuary 12th edition of Al-Usbu and reprinted in Al-Quds Al-Arab in London the next […]

Force 17 is the security apparatus entrusted in the protection of Yasir Arafat and preserves the stability and order within the Palestinian Authority. The organization is comprised of 3,500 operatives and is headed by Faisel Abu-Sharch, permanently positioned in Gaza. The organization is equipped with light weapons and BRDM-2 armored vechicles and conduct patrolling activites […]

The criticism of the Egyptian government press, following racist remarks against US Secretary of State Colin Powell, as well as the continuous anti-Semitism has been only partially heeded. While the criticism of Secretary Powell has been toned down, (1) anti-Semitic slander remains a frequent feature in the writings of Egyptian columnists. Recently, the issue of […]

Any attempt of the Bush administration to restart the peace process in the Middle East must first, recognize why the Palestinian economy is on the brink of collapse. According to surveys by the research center of the Israeli Yad Tabenkin, the West Bank per capita gross domestic product (GDP) before the Oslo accord in 1993 […]

Hizbullah terrorist organization Secretary-General Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah said in Lebanon this week that presence of "Lebanese Islamic Resistant Forces" along the Lebanese border with Israel is necessary for the country. So reports Iran´s official IRNA news agency. According to the terrorist leader, Lebanon´s national interests mandated that Hizbullah remain near the border "along with their […]

Columnist Hazem Saghia writes in the London based Arabic daily Al-Hayat on February 28, 2001: [We in] the Middle East are under the illusion that the world waits for us and will wait for us forever. So we can take our time as well as others since time is on our side and the future […]