Monthly Archives : June 2004

Time to get moving on Iran


Thursday morning it was announced that the eight British servicemen who were nabbed by Iranian Revolutionary Guards in the Shatt al-Arab waterway on the Iraq-Iran border earlier in the week had been released to the custody of the British Embassy in Teheran. Remarking on the transfer of the British sailors and marines who had been pictured blindfolded and forced to…

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More American than Zionist


This week was the first time that the Palestinian Authority publicly acknowledged its responsibility for the Aksa Martyr Brigades terrorist group which is designated as a foreign terrorist organization by the US State Department.   In an attempt to solve an employment dispute between the PA and the Aksa Brigades, the central committee of Fatah, which is to the PA…

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Managing pathologies


The events of the past week have laid bare the three pathologies of the Palestinian conflict with Israel.   First we have the Palestinian rank-and-file.   Under the headline "Palestinians turn on tunnel men," Reuters reported Sunday that in the aftermath of the IDF's recent operations in Rafah aimed at uncovering underground tunnels used to smuggle weapons from Egypt to…

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War politics, local politics


"By the end of 2005, not one Jew will remain in Gaza." Thus spake Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Wednesday morning.   Sharon's statement is troubling on many levels. First, the triumphalism: Why is the prime minister of the Jewish state acting as if it is a good thing to ethnically cleanse Gaza of Jews? It sounds like something Yasser…

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