Arabic News Weekly Edition for Palestine, 4/27/1998
Weekly Edition, Palestine - Week of April 27, 1998
- Palestinian attorney general resigns Palestine, Politics, 5/2/1998
- Sheikh Ahmed Yassin heads to South Africa
Sheikh Yassin received invitations from the United Arab Emirates and Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh as well as an invitation from South Africa, to which Sheikh Yassin decided to arrive in the middle of the current week after ending his visit to Iran. Palestine-Kuwait-South Africa, Politics, 5/2/1998 - Anani meets with Arafat on peace talks
"I briefed Arafat on results of King Hussein's latest visit to Germany, Denmark and Tunisia," Anani said. "There was broad support for the Palestinians and their approach to peacemaking," he added. Jordan-Palestine, Politics, 5/2/1998 - Palestinians, Israelis discuss business before London meetings
Palestinian economic sources said that Israeli and Palestinian businessmen held meetings on cooperation in Tel Aviv last week. "The discussions between the two sides focused on joint ventures and industrial parks," the Palestinian source added. Palestine-Israel, Business, 5/2/1998 - Memories of a veteran Palestinian fighter in 1948
"It is a day of persistent determination to return to my homeland," said Hassan Jibril Manna' of Dheisheh refugee camp near Bethlehem, as Israelis were celebrating the 50th anniversary of the proclamation of their Israel. Palestine-Israel, History, 5/1/1998 - Will London meeting be canceled?
Netanyahu lately has become even harder and too difficult to understand. "Netanyahu," said the source, "is clearly trying to push the state of affair between Israel and the US to the verge of confrontation hoping that this effort would get him support from within the US congress against the Administration of President Bill Clinton." Palestine-Israel-USA, Politics, 4/30/1998 - Moussa briefs Mubarak on Palestine visit
Netanyahu stressed readiness to defy the world as a whole against preserving what he described as the "security of the Israelis." Moussa described these statements is lacking a sense of responsibility and contradictory to the logic of the present time. Egypt-Palestine, Politics, 4/30/1998 - US president comments on London meeting
U.S. President Bill Clinton expressed hope that the May 4th meeting between US Secretary of State Albright, Israel's P.M. Netanyahu, and Palestine's President Arafat will bear fruit asking the parties to consider the alternative if failure results. Palestine-Israel-USA, Politics, 4/30/1998 - Palestinian intellectuals rally in Paris
While Israel is celebrating the 50th anniversary of Palestine's usurpation, the speakers added, the price of the creation of Israel was not only forcing some one million Palestinians out of their own lands. The speakers stressed that Zionism is hostile to Jews because it is a colonial ideology which displaced the Palestinians, encomapssed racial discrimination and committed crimes against the Jews themselves. Palestine-Israel-France, Politics, 4/30/1998 - Palestinian territories closed Palestine, Politics, 4/30/1998
- Gaza airport named Palestine, Local, 4/30/1998
- Ashrawi: Palestinian state will be declared Palestine-Israel, Politics, 4/30/1998
- An exhibition for Egyptian products in Gaza
The Egyptian organization for international markets and exhibitions, in cooperation with the Palestinian Ministry of Trade, agreed to establish an exhibition for the Egyptian products in Gaza and West Bank. Egypt-Palestine, Exhibition, 4/30/1998 - Netanyahu: Arafat must compromise Palestine-Israel, Politics, 4/29/1998
- PLO headquarters in Jerusalem faces new threats
The status of the Orient House as headquarters of the Palestinian peace negotiators made it become the unofficial bureau of the PLO in Jerusalem, even back in the days of the former right wing Likud government of Yitzhak Shamir. Palestine-Israel, Local, 4/29/1998 - Israel - settlement Palestine-Israel, Politics, 4/29/1998
- Saudi Arabia transfers $3.6 million to the PLO Saudi Arabia-Palestine, Economics, 4/29/1998
- Hamas spiritual leader: we do not want inter-fighting
The spiritual leader of the Palestinian national resistance movement Hamas, Sheikh Ahmad Yassin said Palestinian struggle will continue unabated until liberation of land and sacred places is achieved. Palestine-Iran, Politics, 4/29/1998 - Arabs and some Jews mourn Israel's anniversary
Not only Arabs, but also one of the Jewish sectors has a reason to mourn, while their fellow Jews dance and sing in the streets. Members of the most ultra-orthodox Natorei Karta sect plan to hold a mourning procession on Israel's independence day in their own Mea' She'arim neighborhood Palestine-Israel, History, 4/28/1998 - Sheikh Ahmed Yassin visits Tehran
Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the founder of the Hamas movement (the Islamic resistance movement), will begin a five-day visit to Tehran today, although for security reasons, it was kept secret whether he is coming from Doha or from Kuwait. Palestine, Politics, 4/28/1998 - Palestinian al-Awqaf minister dies of stroke Palestine, People, 4/28/1998
- Egypt FM arrives in Gaza for Palestinian-Egyptian joint committee meetings
Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Moussa and Palestinian Minister of Planning Nabil Shaath signed today four agreements for supporting scientific, commercial, cultural and economic cooperation between the two countries. These agreements came after the meetings of the joint committee in Gaza. Egypt-Palestine, Politics, 4/28/1998 - Netanyahu fears US recognition of Palestinian state, as Ross and Indyk lack breakthrough
Arafat also discussed Israel's celebrations of its 50th anniversary and said that from the Palestinians' perspective; it is a time to mark the "tragedy of the Palestinian people, a tragedy in the course of which hundreds of thousands of Palestinians became homeless refugees." Palestine-Israel, Politics, 4/27/1998 - Albright ready for an ultimatum to Israel, 50th anniversary reschedules Gore
Even before his arrival, Al Gore was the focus of Israeli criticism because of his decision to meet Palestinian President in Ramallah on Friday. Israel requested the meeting be canceled because it coincides with it own celebrations of independence Palestine-Israel-USA, Politics, 4/27/1998 - Egypt's Moussa heads to Gaza
The Gaza meetings will also discuss methods of developing Palestinian - Egyptian relations in all fields, especially the economic field and signing commercial, scientific and technical agreements. Egypt-Palestine, Politics, 4/27/1998 - EU denies boycott of Israeli settlers' products
The European Union has denied that it intends to impose sanctions on commodities produced by Israeli settlements in the occupied Gaza Strip and West Bank. Spokesman for the European Commission was quoted on Thursday as saying that what has been published by the Israeli dailies in this regard was groundless. Palestine-Israel-European Union, Economics, 4/27/1998