17 August 2001 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Heidi Shoup Egypt’s Osama El Baz Meets with U.S.-Middle East Policy Analysts Washington, DC – According to Osama El Baz, senior advisor to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Voices of reason are being drowned out and voices of extremism, fundamentalism, and radicals are gaining ground in the Middle East. […]
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Palestine Center Asks State Department to Intervene On Behalf of Andrew Clarno
14 August 2001 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Heidi Shoup Palestine Center Asks State Department to Intervene On Behalf of Andrew Clarno Washington, DC – Andrew Clarno, who was an intern at the Center during the summer of 1994, was detained on 11 August by Israeli police for taking part in a peaceful gathering in Jerusalem. […]
PLC Delegates Discuss Current Crisis in Palestine
9 August 2001 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Heidi Shoup PLC Delegates Discuss Current Crisis in Palestine Washington, DC – The Center for Policy Analysis on Palestine hosted a meeting at its office with members of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) on 9 August 2001. The PLC delegation is in Washington as part of an initiative […]
Call for the U.S. to Condemn Israel’s Human Rights Abuses
31 July 2001 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Call for the U.S. to Condemn Israel’s Human Rights Abuses The Board of Directors of The Jerusalem Fund for Education and Community Development and its educational program, the Palestine Center, condemn the continuing Israeli practice of extra-judicial executions and the indiscriminate murder of innocent Palestinian civilians. In the past […]
PLO Official Confers with U.S. Organizations
27 July 2001 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PLO Official Confers with U.S. Organizations Washington, DC – On 27 July 2001, Palestine National Council member Hani Al Hassan met with leaders of American nongovernmental organizations at the Palestine Center to discuss the worsening situation in the Occupied Territories of the West Bank and Gaza. He also outlined the Palestinian perspective of […]
The Palestine Center Mourns the Death of Faisal Husseini
31 May 2001 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Palestine Center Mourns the Death of Faisal Husseini Washington DC – The Center for Policy Analysis on Palestine mourns the death of Faisal Husseini, Palestinian Liberation Organization minister in charge of Jerusalem affairs, who died of a heart attack in Kuwait earlier today. In the ongoing struggle for […]
Palestine seeks to charge Israel with ‘apartheid’ and war crimes at The Hague
Allison Deger: A thick set of documents containing evidence and arguments was ceremoniously handed over to the ICC today at its headquarters, according to Shawan Jabarin, the director of the Palestinian human rights group Al Haq.