Home
Archives
Jerusalem Center Homepage
View the current issue
Jerusalem Center Videos
Additional Resources
Top Commentators:
- Elliott Abrams
- Fouad Ajami
- Shlomo Avineri
- Benny Avni
- Alan Dershowitz
- Jackson Diehl
- Dore Gold
- Daniel Gordis
- Tom Gross
- Jonathan Halevy
- David Ignatius
- Pinchas Inbari
- Jeff Jacoby
- Efraim Karsh
- Mordechai Kedar
- Charles Krauthammer
- Emily Landau
- David Makovsky
- Aaron David Miller
- Benny Morris
- Jacques Neriah
- Marty Peretz
- Melanie Phillips
- Daniel Pipes
- Harold Rhode
- Gary Rosenblatt
- Jennifer Rubin
- David Schenkar
- Shimon Shapira
- Jonathan Spyer
- Gerald Steinberg
- Bret Stephens
- Amir Taheri
- Josh Teitelbaum
- Khaled Abu Toameh
- Jonathan Tobin
- Michael Totten
- Michael Young
- Mort Zuckerman
Think Tanks:
- American Enterprise Institute
- Brookings Institution
- Center for Security Policy
- Council on Foreign Relations
- Heritage Foundation
- Hudson Institute
- Institute for Contemporary Affairs
- Institute for Counter-Terrorism
- Institute for Global Jewish Affairs
- Institute for National Security Studies
- Institute for Science and Intl. Security
- Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center
- Investigative Project
- Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
- RAND Corporation
- Saban Center for Middle East Policy
- Shalem Center
- Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Media:
- CAMERA
- Daily Alert
- Jewish Political Studies Review
- MEMRI
- NGO Monitor
- Palestinian Media Watch
- The Israel Project
- YouTube
Government:
Back
(Newsweek) - "Palestinians are tired of corruption, cronyism and shady deals." That makes Mohammed Rashid -- the shadowy financial adviser to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat -- a target. “Now everyone is talking about how he does the dirty business for Arafat,” said Manuel Hassassian, a political scientist at Bethlehem University. Rashid is not even Palestinian. An ethnic Kurd, he first made contact with the PLO during the early 1980s in Beirut, then counseled Arafat in Tunis on ways to expand PLO investments. When Arafat moved to Gaza in 1994, Rashid became one of his main financial operators. Critics say he helped secure import monopolies for the PA and for friends, sometimes in partnership with Israeli businessmen. Before Ariel Sharon's election last year, he sent his son Omri to Vienna for talks with Rashid. Israeli newspapers said the discussions included ways to reopen the Oasis Casino that Palestinians built in Jericho in 1998, which was shut down after fighting erupted 20 months ago. 2002-05-27 00:00:00Full Article
Mohammed Rashid: Arafat’s Money Man
(Newsweek) - "Palestinians are tired of corruption, cronyism and shady deals." That makes Mohammed Rashid -- the shadowy financial adviser to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat -- a target. “Now everyone is talking about how he does the dirty business for Arafat,” said Manuel Hassassian, a political scientist at Bethlehem University. Rashid is not even Palestinian. An ethnic Kurd, he first made contact with the PLO during the early 1980s in Beirut, then counseled Arafat in Tunis on ways to expand PLO investments. When Arafat moved to Gaza in 1994, Rashid became one of his main financial operators. Critics say he helped secure import monopolies for the PA and for friends, sometimes in partnership with Israeli businessmen. Before Ariel Sharon's election last year, he sent his son Omri to Vienna for talks with Rashid. Israeli newspapers said the discussions included ways to reopen the Oasis Casino that Palestinians built in Jericho in 1998, which was shut down after fighting erupted 20 months ago. 2002-05-27 00:00:00Full Article
Search Daily Alert
|
Search:
|