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599 articles tagged "Palestinians"
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DEBKAfile
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March 22, 2002, 10:55 AM (GMT+02:00)
The wild Middle East reality has produced one of its most bizarre twists: According to debkafile's American and Palestinian sources, the initiative to let Yasser Afafat travel to Beirut for the Arab League summit opening next week comes from ...Ariel Sharon and a group of Israeli government ministers. ...
DEBKAfile
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March 21, 2002, 10:56 AM (GMT+02:00)
The Palestinian suicide bombing that shattered lives and storefronts in downtown Jerusalem on Thursday also made a shambles of any coherent Israeli and US policy toward Yasser Arafat. The aftershock of the attack would be even greater where it not for an Israeli court's gag order, issued at the urging ...
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March 18, 2002, 10:59 AM (GMT+02:00)
Monday, March 18, just before US Vice President Richard Cheney landed in Israel to wind up his 12-nation tour of the region, US Middle East envoy Anthony Zinni extracted from the US- Israeli-Palestinian security commission a limited accord.
DEBKAfile
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March 17, 2002, 11:01 AM (GMT+02:00)
Israelis, faced with daily terrorist attacks on civilian targets, have been smothered in a blanket of diplo-babble since the US Middle East envoy Anthony Zinni landed last Thursday, March 15. But while Israelis were left to grope their way through an opaque thicket of verbiage, the Palestinians simply carried on ...
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March 5, 2002, 12:33 PM (GMT+02:00)
Tuesday, between 02:15 and 09:00 hours Israel time, Palestinian terrorists slew 5 Israelis and injured 63 in attacks in Tel Aviv, Afula and the Tunnel Road leading out of Jerusalem. Each time the level of bloodshed hits a new and intolerable high - as it did last Saturday and Sunday ...
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March 4, 2002, 12:34 PM (GMT+02:00)
The lone Palestinian sniper who, with 25 bullets from his old-fashioned carbine rifle, was able to kill 7 well-armed Israeli soldiers and 3 civilians - and wound another 4 - is the stuff of legend.
DEBKAfile
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March 3, 2002, 12:35 PM (GMT+02:00)
Victims of Saturday night's suicide bombing in the ultra-orthodox district of Mahane Israel, Jerusalem, most members of a Bar Mitzva party.
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February 26, 2002, 4:53 PM (GMT+02:00)
Just over three weeks ago, Palestinian Authority paymasters, about to hand out January wage packets to civilian and security personnel, were taken aback to find that the $50 million earmarked for the purpose had gone missing. At a loss, they asked their bosses what to do and were told there ...
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February 24, 2002, 12:44 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israel's security cabinet decision Sunday, February 24, to slightly ease Yasser Arafat's conditions of confinement in Ramallah was accompanied by a pullback of the tanks besieging his headquarters for nearly three months. But to leave thisWest Bank hub town - he wants to attend the Arab League summit in Beirut ...
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February 18, 2002, 12:53 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon brushed aside the widespread criticism of his handling of Palestinian terror as politically motivated, when he addressed a Likud party faction meeting Monday, February 17. He declared brusquely that he doesn't need experts to advise him on how to combat terror.
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February 12, 2002, 12:55 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israel's policy-makers and military tacticians both came badly out of the first round of Palestinian rocket warfare. Notwithstanding the generals' claim that the armed forces were ready for this acute upturn in Palestinian violence, their deployment has been slow and unwieldy in the face of the new threat.
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January 27, 2002, 12:49 PM (GMT+02:00)
Noon Sunday, January 27, after Yasser Arafat declared publicly that "one million martyrs are on their way to Jerusalem", the first woman suicide bomber detonated a massively powerful bomb-belt in the middle of the road on Jerusalem's busy Jaffa Street. The blast went up at the same place that a ...
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January 26, 2002, 12:50 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile 's Washington sources report that the White House is holding back till next week the punitive actions against Yasser Arafat decided on at a top-level presidential forum convened by US president George W. Bush on Friday, January 25.
Called to the White House policy review on the ...
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January 23, 2002, 12:51 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's military sources report that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has ordered his 20,000-man police force to take to the war field - a drastic step that moves his confrontation with Israel into the realm of full-scale belligerence. Militarizing his police force is more than just another blatant violation ...
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January 22, 2002, 1:11 PM (GMT+02:00)
The devout Muslim Yasser Arafat, who ignited the "al Aqsa Intifada" conflagration in September 2000, has developed a strong urge to attend Christmas Mass in Bethlehem. But he is in a cleft stick. To escape the Israeli siege holding him down in Ramallah, he must ask Israel for permission to ...
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January 22, 2002, 12:53 PM (GMT+02:00)
Of the 49 wounded, two women did not live through the night. One was 79-year old Sarah Hamburger, mother of four and grandmother of eleven. The second has still to be identified by a relative coming from Russia.
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January 15, 2002, 12:58 PM (GMT+02:00)
Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa, Romanian intelligence chief under the dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and the highest ranking intelligence officer ever to defect from the Soviet bloc,wrote an article entitled "The Arafat I Know" in the Wall Street Journal of January 10. The occasion he marked was Israel's capture of the Karin-A ...
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January 9, 2002, 11:10 AM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's military sources report that the Israeli intelligence officers due in Washington Wednesday, January 9, carry incriminating proofs of Yasser Arafat's direct complicity in all the stages of the foiled Karine-A gun-running operation. Headed by Lt.-Col Yossi Kuperwasser, head of Army Intelligence (Aman) Research Department, the group is ...
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January 6, 2002, 1:04 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon responded with alacrity to the call voiced Sunday, January 6, by chief of staff Lt. Gen. Shaul Mofaz for a re-examination of the strategy governing Israel's relations with the Palestinian Authority and its head. Mofaz urged an immediate government review in the light of the ...
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January 5, 2002, 1:05 PM (GMT+02:00)
It took the New York Times only a few hours to obtain corroboration from "senior administration officials in Washington" for debkafile's January 4disclosure that the US was involved in tracking the Palestinian arms ship seized in a combined Israeli naval-air force operations on the Red Sea Thursday. The ...
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