Results for “Palestinian Front for the Liberation of Palestine”

…mple. It was a decision that, under both Rabin and Peres, we’d delayed out of concern about inflaming tensions with the Palestinians. As Shimon rightly said publicly after the three days of violence that followed, we understood that, at a minimum, it would need to be coordinated...

…ollah movement in Lebanon, the Sadrist movement and other Shia Islamist currents in Iraq, Syria's Assad regime, and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad organisation. It appeared in recent years also to be absorbing Hamas. The mugawama bloc presented itself as the representative of auth...

…new kind of challenges we were confronting, particularly the prospect of intensified attacks from the new generation of Palestinian fedaveen, meant that the sayeret would sooner or later have to broaden its reach, moving beyond the kind of intelligence operations we’d done before...

…ed the presence of a large American airbase in Qatar, and the country's close relations with the United States. In the Palestinian territories, as in the broader region, the Qataris are supporting secular and religious forces in a way that will maximize their influence and keep...

…nd the tyranny in Iraq.’ And | did.” As if he were merely following divine orders. In July 2003, during a meeting with Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, Bush told the newly elected leader, “God told me to strike at Al-Qaeda and | struck them, and then He instructed me to...

…ndent. His new book on Dubai, City of Gold: Dubai and the Dream of Capitalism, is available. As Americans, Israelis and Palestinians continue their endless peace-jockeying, a more hopeful solution has emerged. It is a fresh Arab initiative that depends neither on America nor Isra...

…pt the form of an apartheid regime, which I think is not what many Israelis want. FP: What is the most important thing Palestinians have learned about Israelis? SE: That Israelis will not take back the ships that brought them here to leave somewhere else. We got to understand t...

…tional due process analysis.” Estates of Ungar v. Palestinan Auth, 153 F.Supp.2d 76, 95 (D.R.1.2001); see also Biton v. Palestinian Interim Self-Gov't Auth. 310 F.Supp.2d 172, 179 (D.D.C. 2004) (dismissing complaint pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 2333 because individual defen- dants lac...

…yone.” But I added that I still did not feel anything of a similar nature, or remotely as serious, was happening on the Palestinian side. I also said that in deciding how to proceed, I couldn’t ignore political realities back home. I would have to get any major change in our posi...

…with Arik now moved to defense minister, would further put the brakes on any follow-up negotiations for a deal with the Palestinians. I did not yet know that Arik, in particular, had a far more ambitious, military plan to try to bury the possibility of a Palestinian state once an...

…nk He planted bombs in the cars of Arab mayors and plotted to blow up the Dome of the Rock. Buying up farmland from the Palestinians beginning in 1979, many of whom were then killed by their own because they were seen as collaborators, Zar and his group of young volunteer settler...

managed their expectations? Palestinians know exactly what's happening. People don't have high expectations.... But maybe the Palestinian leadership should tell the people that after 20 years we don't have a partner and we cannot continue to be an authority in name only. That we...

…ll. This was not just because the shape of a final agreement with the Syrians was clearer, to both sides, than with the Palestinians. It was because I was determined to make good on the main specific policy pledge of my campaign: to bring our troops home from Lebanon. No matter w...

…e West Bank. That meant — at least in theory — that Israel could limit phase-three to a mere token pullout, leaving the Palestinians with less than half of the territory. “T don’t know what percentage, exactly,” I replied. “But one of my cabinet ministers thinks that a formula o...

…sed? Yes. Maybe we'll make a decision about that in the next two weeks. Throwing in the towel? You mean disbanding the Palestinian Authority? The Authority was born to transfer Palestinians from occupation to independence. If Mr. [Benjamin] Netanyahu [the Israeli prime minister...