A MEMO FOR RABIN: WILL HIS LEGACY BE AN ISRAEL AT RISK AND AN AMERICAN PRO-ISRAEL COMMUNITY TOO FRACTURED TO HELP?
(Washington, D.C.): Sometime soon -- perhaps as early as the end of this week -- Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin...
Middle East
WILL SENATE GIVE ARAFAT $500 MILLION IN THE FACE OF HIS ONGOING SUPPORT FOR TERRORISM, OPPOSITION FROM MOST AMERICAN JEWS?
(Washington, D.C.): Tomorrow, the Senate Appropriations Committee is scheduled to complete action on the FY1996 foreign operations appropriations bill. As...
YOU CAN SAY THAT AGAIN: CHRISTOPHER, NEWLY SEIZED WITH SYRIAN INVOLVEMENT IN TERRORISM, SENDS WARNING TO DAMASCUS
(Washington, D.C.): Today's Washington Post carries a stunning news item: Secretary of State Warren Christopher has directed the U.S. ambassador...
WHEN SADDAM SPEAKS, WILL THE SENATE LISTEN?
(Washington, D.C.) The U.S. Senate is poised to take up several initiatives of the utmost strategic sensitivity following its return...
GUESS WHAT? SADDAM IS STILL LYING, PRESERVING A BIOLOGICAL WARFARE CAPABILITY THAT IS A RISK TO THE U.S.
(Washington, D.C.): For the third time since April, the Iraqi biological warfare (BW) onion has been peeled back, establishing indisputably...
AT LAST, CONGRESS GETS READ-IN ON ISRAELI-SYRIAN TALKS: NOW WILL THE PUBLIC BE TOLD ABOUT THEIR COSTS TO THE U.S.?
(Washington, D.C.): Tomorrow at 2:00 p.m. members of the House International Relations Committee will finally be briefed by senior Clinton...
LET’S SEE THE G.A.O. STUDY OF P.L.O. WEALTH BEFORE FORKING OVER HALF A BILLION IN U.S. TAX DOLLARS TO ARAFAT
(Washington, D.C.) American politicians know one thing about their constituents: They do not like foreign aid. This attitude is not...
WHAT IRAQ’S BIOLOGICAL WARFARE REVELATIONS REALLY MEAN: THERE CAN BE NO ACCOMMODATION WITH SADDAM
(Washington, D.C.): Saddam Hussein's decision to make a less-than-full disclosure about the nature, size and status of his illegal biological...
THE SAXTON SOLUTION: NO P.L.O. COMPLIANCE, NO U.S. TAXPAYER-UNDERWRITTEN AID
(Washington, D.C.): This evening, the U.S. House of Representatives is expected to debate an amendment of stunning simplicity yet enormous...
IT’S OFFICIAL: RABIN WANTS U.S. FOREIGN AID FOR SYRIA; NOW WILL CONGRESS SAY ‘NO’?
(Washington, D.C.): On 15 June, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin indicated to an American audience that he wanted U.S. tax-dollars...
A.I.P.A.C. CONFERENCE SHOWS AMERICAN JEWRY IS DUBIOUS ABOUT PROSPECTS FOR REAL MIDEAST PEACE
(Washington, D.C.): The 1996 annual policy conference of the American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) has just indisputably established a point...
IF SADDAM HUSSEIN IS BUILDING BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS, IS THE UNITED STATES THE LIKELY TARGET?
(Washington, D.C.): A report released yesterday appears to confirm the worst: Saddam Hussein has secreted away at least 17 tons...
‘CHEERS!’ PERRY LAUNCHES, THEN TOASTS THE ‘PLUTONIUM TRIANGLE’ — THE EMERGING MOSCOW-TEHRAN-PYONGYANG NUCLEAR AXIS
(Washington, D.C.): Arguably, one of the most ignominious moments in recent American diplomacy occurred when the Bush Administration's National Security...
‘IT’S ECONOMIC SECURITY, STUPID’: D’AMATO-KING-AIPAC EFFORT ON IMPORT CONTROLS SHOULD APPLY TO IRAN, BEYOND
(Washington, D.C.): In the years since Bill Clinton successfully campaigned for president on the motto "It's the economy, stupid," his...
PROFILES IN COURAGE (II): CENTER SALUTES JEWISH LEADERS DEMANDING P.L.O. COMPLIANCE WITH PEACE ACCORDS
(Washington, D.C.): At a recent meeting in Jerusalem with the presidents of major American Jewish organizations, Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister...
A ‘breakthrough’ with Syria?
It has become a fixture in American diplomacy: When the going gets tough, try to buy the tough off. No...