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The Israeli-Palestinian Confrontation: Toward a Divorce

June 30, 2002 | Ehud Yaari

Arafat exercised a willing suspension of control at the start of the intifada, allowing irregular forces to attack while formal security forces remained on the sidelines. One of the major concepts of Oslo was that in the end there would be a strong, centralized Palestinian authority/ government. This concept is gone.

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.

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

December 9, 2001

In the aftermath of the December 1-the Palestinian Authority "an entity that supports terrorism." This determination, even if only declarato2 Hamas bombings in Jerusalem and Haifa that left 27 Israeli civilians dead and 175 wounded, the Israeli government designated ry, closed a chapter in Israeli-Palestinian relations.

The Use of Palestinian Children in the Al-Aqsa Intifada

November 1, 2000 | Justus Reid Weiner

The Palestinian Provocation

October 3, 2000 | Amb. Dore Gold