Annapolis – A footnote in history

Clayton Swisher, Al Jazeera’s US policy analyst and author of The Truth About Camp David, explores the forthcomimg US-hosted meeting that aims to initiate Palestinian-Israeli dialogue.
The decision by all Arab governments – including Saudi Arabia and Syria – to partake in the Annapolis meeting is a significant advance, and likely to form a footnote in [...]

Maale Adumim, a flagship settlement in the West Bank

Built in 1975, Maale Adumim is classified as a high priority development area and accordingly receives considerable state aid. It is situated on the outskirts of Jerusalem and, with 25,000 inhabitants in 1999, has become the largest Israeli settlement in the West Bank. The policy of creeping settlement is aimed at consolidating the illegal annexation [...]

Israeli territorial proposals (dec 2000)

Drawn up by the Jerusalem Task Force from Orient House, this map shows Israel’s “territorial concessions” made to the Palestinians at the Camp David summit of July 2000, according to information from the Palestinian delegation to the summit.

Ref: Le Monde

Millions of Palestinian refugees in the Middle East

Of the 3.6 million Palestinian refugees in the Middle East in June 1999, a third were living in camps. Of these, more than half were living outside Palestine, mostly in Jordan, which is the main host country. The question of the right of return, which arose after the first wave of exile in 1948-49, is [...]

US, the UN’s main debtor

The alternative UN
What kind of new worldwide organisation could be established that would truly defend humankind’s common resources and limit the major powers? Here are some suggestions for further debate…

UN how it works

Ref: Le Monde

Washington sets out to conquer “virgin territory”

“At the end of March President Bill Clinton will be making his first visit to Africa. Just as the ex-colonial powers are apparently retiring from the scene, at a loss to come up with any constructive ideas, the United States is starting to focus on the continent as one of the last virgin territories for [...]

Africa in 2 maps: A continent exhausted by war and famine + Renewed foreign-power rivalry

he end of the cold war raised hopes of a new era for Africa. But the Rwandan genocide and the collapse of Congo-Zaire confused the issues. The conflict zones are also areas of famine, concentrations of displaced persons and refugees, and often of malnutrition and food shortages.
See article by Philippe Leymarie, “Africa worn out by [...]

A geography of chaos

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Annapolis: behind the scenes

“It’s time for the establishment of a Palestinian state,” announced US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice after a visit to the Middle East on 15 October. She claimed President George Bush had decided to make ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict “one of the highest priorities of his administration”.
The United States is to host a conference at [...]

PERSPECTIV; Jewish terrorism

Jewish Terror Groups:
- Haganah
- Irgun
- Lehi (Stern Gang)
- JDL
- Kach Party
- Israeli Defense Forces (IDF)
Jewish Terror Activities:
- bombing of King David Hotel (1946)
- murder of Count Folke Bernadotte (1948)
- murder of Lord Moyne (1944)
- Deir Yassin Massace (1948)
- Cairo-Haifa Train Bombings (1948)
- bombing of British Police Station in Haifa (1947)
- bombing of Egyptian, Syrian, and [...]