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In-Depth Issue:
Arafat's Secret Bank Account
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News Resources - USA and Europe:
National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice: "The Palestinian Authority, which is corrupt and cavorts with terror...is not the basis for a Palestinian state." Reformed Palestinian institutions "will give the Israelis confidence they're going to be living next to a state that any of us would actually want to live next to." (Mercury News) Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle: There has to be a regime change in the Palestinian movement in order to reach a peaceful arrangement. Sooner or later Arafat needs to go, but it has to happen from within. Sen. Daschle also expressed disappointment with the degree of Saudi Arabia's help in fighting terror. (FOX News) President Bush early this year signed an intelligence order directing the CIA to undertake a comprehensive, covert program to topple Saddam Hussein, including authority to use lethal force to capture the Iraqi president, according to informed sources. (Washington Post) A terrorist in Saudi Arabia attempted to shoot down a U.S. Air Force plane there a month ago. U.S. security discovered the remains of a portable anti-aircraft missile after it had apparently been fired at the Prince Sultan Air Base. The terrorist, now in custody in Sudan, was trained by al Qaeda. (ABC News) According to former Pentagon and State Department officials, Israel has three diesel submarines that it is arming with newly designed cruise missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads. The Israelis reportedly tested a cruise missile launched from a submarine two years ago off Sri Lanka in the Indian Ocean. In response, IDF Spokesman Brig.-Gen. Ron Kitrey denied that the army possesses cruise missiles equipped with nuclear warheads. (Washington Post) Givati Brigade soldiers Yehezkel Gutman, 22, and Alexei Gladkov, 20, were killed and 4 others wounded when they were ambushed by Palestinian terrorists near Dugit in the northern Gaza Strip Saturday night. (Jerusalem Post) Border Police troops riding in an armor-clad jeep early Monday outside the Israeli Arab village of Mardza near Netanya approached the bomber who blew himself up, badly damaging the jeep but leaving the soldiers unhurt. (Ha'aretz) Prime Minister Sharon told President Bush at the White House last week that a Palestinian state can only be established once Palestinian violence stops and serious reforms are implemented. Sharon told the Cabinet on Sunday, "The conditions are not yet ripe for the establishment of any type of Palestinian state." (Jerusalem Post) The wealthier ones emigrate to Canada, the U.S., or Chile, or they move to Jewish Nazareth Elit. The less well-off move to apartments in Haifa. The destinations may not be ideal, but the option of continuing to live in a Muslim village is much worse, and involves not a few violent encounters, some that have ended in murder. (Makor Rishon)
Global Commentary and Think-Tank Analysis
(Best of U.S., UK, and Israel):
To put the force of the U.S. behind prematurely creating a full-blown Palestinian state in virtually all the West Bank would be a reward to the suicide bombers who have terrorized Israelis. To advance such a Clinton-era strategy would send the terrible message that terrorism pays. (Los Angeles Times) Residents of Saudi Arabia, including non-Saudi citizens, can apply for non-immigrant visas to the U.S. at private travel agencies, never needing to visit a U.S. embassy or consulate. Three of the 9/11 hijackers entered the U.S. in this way. (National Review) The young men of Saudi Arabia's Generation-X face unprecedented unemployment and are searching for meaning in lives defined by a host of restrictions. Saudi Arabia's earnings per capita have tumbled from being on par with America, 20 years ago, to matching that of Panama today. (Christian Science Monitor) Iran does not yet have a nuclear capability, but the deterrence role of its missile force points to the possibility that the missiles will be equipped with nuclear warheads if and when Iran is able to produce them. (Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies) When I was the spokesman of the Israeli government in the early 1990s, I had to face tough questions from U.S. journalists about Israel's detention of suspects. "If you have something against them, bring them to trial. If not, let them go," they said. As the case of Jose Padilla and the "dirty bomb" illustrates, since 9/11, Americans have woken up to the need to catch terrorists and to detain them while getting information about the others, in order to curb their evil plots. (Miami.com) In the liberal, open-minded city of San Francisco, the UC Berkeley and SFSU campuses are home to a deep wellspring of free-floating, hard-left authoritarianism whose adherents have set their sights on Israel. The few Arab students have found eager allies among the Bay Area's preexisting, off-campus lefty groups, which gives pro-Palestinian groups an unusual capacity to turn out large crowds. (New Republic) Provisional Palestinian State is a Trap - William Safire (New York Times)
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