Dec 1, 2019 7 min Peace: the road that leads to war — Part 12 Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO): In January 1995, sixteen months after the signing of the Declaration Of Principles (DOP) in Oslo...
Dec 1, 2019 4 min Peace: the road that leads to war — Part 11 THE LATE PRESIDENT HAFEZ Assad of Syria was “employing the peace option to regain the Golan Heights while preparing through rearmament...
Dec 1, 2019 4 min Peace: the road that leads to war — Part 10 THE METHOD HAFEZ ASSAD—father of current Syrian president, Bashir—used to muzzle the press against publishing stories considered by...
Dec 1, 2019 4 min Peace: the road that leads to war — Part 9 SYRIA: Some ten years or more ago, for months, the news media carried reports of a change in mood among the Syrians. In the beginning of...
Dec 1, 2019 5 min Peace: the road that leads to war — Part 8 JORDAN (CONT.) Unlike Israel’s overwhelming majority Knesset vote in favor of the peace treaty with Jordan—105 for the treaty, 3 against,...
Dec 1, 2019 5 min Peace: the road that leads to war — Part 7 JORDAN: Of all the Arabs surrounding Israel, Jordan’s late King Hussein was the exception—he had genuinely wanted to cooperate with...
Dec 1, 2019 5 min Peace: the road that leads to war — Part 6 ONE OF THE AGREEMENTS THAT make up the Egypt-Israel peace treaty is a ban on hostile propaganda. The government controlled Egyptian press...
Dec 1, 2019 4 min Peace: the road that leads to war — Part 5 PROFESSIONAL OPINIONS BASED ON information gathered by Israeli intelligence directly oppose what politicians and the news media tell the...
Dec 1, 2019 4 min Peace: the road that leads to war — Part 4 IN THE DECADE 1984−94, Saudi Arabia alone spent the staggering sum of $130 billion on weapons of war, some of which were passed on to...
Dec 1, 2019 10 min Arab violence in Jerusalem, West Bank, and Galilee This writer is momentarily interrupting the series on Peace: the road that leads to War in order to address the ongoing Israeli Arab...