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…re under threat. Arafat undertook to order his security forces and Tanzim not to launch further attacks. He even phoned Gaza with what we were given to understand were explicit orders. But it was all for show, as we discovered when we were invited to the Elysée Palace to meet Chi...

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…that, at a minimum, it would need to be coordinated beforehand with Arafat. As the unrest spread into the West Bank and Gaza, there were media warnings of a “new intifada, ” the difference this time being that the Palestinians newly established police had entered the fray. By the...

…ect to have progress in the near future, with Hamas allowing the Central Elections Commission to register new voters in Gaza. I believe there is political agreement -- in fact, there is a signed agreement. We expect to have HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029789

…erve as even- handed observers. The international focus on the Goldstone Report elaborating Israel's alleged crimes in Gaza, and on its assault on the humanitarian aid flotilla uncover only the tip of the iceberg of Israel's violations of international law. The UN is within its...

…th Clinton that the “right of return” would apply not to Israel proper, but to a Palestinian state on the West Bank and Gaza. Finally, the document said: “I understand that such an agreement constitutes an end of conflict.” After he read it, the President blew up. Far from the “...

…hemia Cohen, the officer I’d joined in our failed attempt to defuse the booby-trap in the Sinai before the war, entered Gaza on the first day in his new role as deputy commander of Amsalem’s paratroop unit. Amsalem was killed early on, so Nechemia took command. He was shot and ki...

… if Israel announced that from now on it will mirror Hamas such that if civilian populations are targeted by bombs from Gaza, Israel will do the same (it is accused of such anyway). The population might finally rethink and take responsibility for its privilege of voting its leade...

2D some reports, this has led to Iranian anger and a cessation of the flow of funds to the Hamas enclave in Gaza. These setbacks do not mean the end of Iran and its allies as a regional power bloc. Assad has not yet fallen. The Iranian nuclear programme is proceeding apace. Teh...

…I went to see Arafat a few days after taking office. We met for well over an hour at Erez, the main crossing point into Gaza. It was swelteringly hot inside. At least I was in an ordinary business suit, but I couldn’t help wondering how Arafat 322 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028170

… if Israel announced that from now on it will mirror Hamas such that if civilian populations are targeted by bombs from Gaza, Israel will do the same (it is accused of such anyway). The population might finally rethink and take responsibility for its privilege of voting its leade...

…ked Course Territories and Personal Representative to the PLO and the Palestinian Authority at our new headquarters in Gaza city. The PLO had regained its uncontested leadership, and the Palestinian Authority received a massive financial boost with the influx of donor money from...

… if Israel announced that from now on it will mirror Hamas such that if civilian populations are targeted by bombs from Gaza, Israel will do the same (it is accused of such anyway). The population might finally rethink and take responsibility for its privilege of voting its leade...

…th Clinton that the “right of return” would apply not to Israel proper, but to a Palestinian state on the West Bank and Gaza. Finally, the document said: “I understand that such an agreement constitutes an end of conflict.” After he read it, the President blew up. Far from the “...