Tag: PLO
May Your Home Be Destroyed
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). When I first met Yasser Arafat in besieged Beirut, in the summer of 1982, Abu Mazen was not present. But...
Two Meetings
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). During the last few days, I met with two old friends: Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin.
Well, the term "friends" may...
Palestine’s Nelson Mandela
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). I have a confession to make: I like Marwan Barghouti.
I have visited him at his modest Ramallah home several times....
The Cannons of Napoleon
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). Napoleon came to a German town and was not welcomed with the traditional artillery salute.
Furious, he summoned the mayor and...
Confessions of a Megalomaniac
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). THE ARAB taxi driver who brought me to Ramallah had no trouble with the Israeli border posts. He just evaded...
The Kissinger Story
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). I am writing this (may God forgive me) on Yom Kippur.
Exactly 43 years ago, at this exact moment, the sirens...
Abu-Mazen’s Balance Sheet
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). Mahmoud Abbas was not present at my first meeting with Yasser Arafat during the siege of Beirut in the First...