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Why Arafat Went to War: The Wrong Lessons from Lebanon and Kosovo

June 19, 2002 | Brig. Gen. Eival Gilady

When Yasser Arafat unleashed terrorist violence against Israel in September 2000, he was applying mistaken lessons from the conflicts in Lebanon and Kosovo, according to Brig. Gen. Eival Gilady, speaking at the inaugural lecture of the Institute for Contemporary Affairs at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs on May 27, 2002.

ISRAELI ARABS: EXPECTATIONS AND REALITIES

May 15, 2002 | Gerald Bubis

No. 478 May 2002 Israeli Arabs — A Growing Time Bomb The riots by Israeli Arabs in October 2000, which took place in conjunction with the outbreak of a renewed wave of Palestinian violence against Israeli Jews, resulted in the deaths of 12 Israeli Arabs (and one from the West Bank) in confrontations […]

What Really Happened in Jenin?

May 2, 2002

The Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank was the scene of some of the harshest fighting during Israel's "Defensive Shield" operation. It contained an extensive military infrastructure for terrorist operations against Israel that involved all of the main Palestinian terrorist groups: Islamic Jihad, Fatah, and Hamas. Since October 2000, Jenin-based terrorist networks were responsible for 28 attempted suicide attacks against Israel, of which 23 were actually executed. It is no wonder that in a captured Fatah document (http://www.idf.il/english/news/jenin.stm) the Palestinians themselves call Jenin "the martyrs' (meaning suicide bombers) capital" -- as-simat al-istashidin.

Poison: The Use of Blood Libel in the War Against Israel

April 15, 2002 | Raphael Israeli

A Primer for the Arab Summit in Beirut

March 26, 2002

Only Buffer Zones Can Protect Israel

February 27, 2002 | Amb. Dore Gold

Was There a Missed Opportunity for Resolving the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict?

February 21, 2002

Arafat’s Iraqi Connection

February 6, 2002

Marwan Barghouti, Fatah-Tanzim, and the Escalation of the Intifada

January 24, 2002

From “Occupied Territories” to “Disputed Territories”

January 16, 2002 | Amb. Dore Gold

The PLO Weapons Ship from Iran

January 7, 2002

Armistice in Jerusalem Once Again?

January 1, 2002 | Raphael Israeli

Yasser Arafat, Christmas, and the PFLP

December 25, 2001

How Arafat’s Palestinian Authority Became an “Entity Supporting Terrorism”

December 9, 2001

Why Syria is Becoming the Coalition’s Spoiler

November 8, 2001