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By Chris Mitchell
History’s ultimate bankruptcy might be written in Jerusalem.
When an Iranian president thunders a murderous danger or an vague Turkish drunkard has a dream in Mecca or a Jewish couple from Brooklyn lands at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion airport, those occasions may appear disconnected. yet they’re now not. In Dateline Jerusalem, CBN information correspondent Chris Mitchell connects the dots and unveils Jerusalem because the epicenter and crossroads of the non secular, political, and, definite, supernatural worlds.
For hundreds of thousands of years, Jerusalem’s robust draw has regularly transcended uncomplicated economics, army approach, and spiritual association.
In our personal time, because the Arab Spring threatens to develop into an Islamic wintry weather, one commentator warns: “The Arab Spring doesn’t result in democracy, it results in Jerusalem.” certainly, the delicate peace of Israel is in new peril as violent Islamic factions vie for keep an eye on of surrounding international locations. but Muslims are changing to Christianity in checklist numbers. Dateline Jerusalem untangles and chronicles all this throughout the riveting narrative of a Christian reporter within the upheaval of the trendy Fertile Crescent.
We reside in an international the place we can't find the money for to be ailing knowledgeable. What occurs within the strategic heart East, Israel, and Jerusalem is important. It issues to you. Today’s information may possibly specialise in Washington, manhattan, London, or Moscow, yet history’s ultimate bankruptcy could be written in Jerusalem.
Chris Mitchell’s firsthand studies and reporting uniquely qualify him to expound on and clarify the main developments and advancements sweeping the center East and affecting the realm. Mitchell has served because the bureau chief for CBN information on the grounds that August 2000.
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Al Agha was a member of Fatah’s Central Committee and served on the PLO’s Executive Committee. According to Ashrawi, there was ‘‘total coordination’’ between the Palestinians who participated in the Washington rounds of talks—a follow-up to the Madrid conference—and Arafat via telephone calls, fax, and secret visits. Worse, Arafat, in an effort to control the process, constantly interfered with the negotiations, much to the annoyance of the Palestinian delegation. ’’ Edward P. ’’31 Much as the administration was exasperated with the Palestinians, it was Shamir who provoked most of its ire.
Before being sold to the right-leaning Hollinger Group in 1990, the Histadrut-owned Post, under Ari Rath and Erwin Frenkel, was in tune with the peace activists and eager to provide a platform for their views. Landau, who left the Post in protest, eventually became the editor of Haaretz where his support for Oslo was unflagging. In 2008 Landau made news after confessing that it was ‘‘his wet dream’’ to see the United States ‘‘rape’’ Israeli into making peace with the Palestinians. 48 By opting to portray Arafat and the PLO as rational actors dedicated to peace, the CR community and ripeness theorists either ignored or glossed over much of the reality in the territories.
5–7 percent tax on Palestinian works in Arab countries; charitable donations from wealthy Palestinians; income from investments; and criminal activities such as drug and arms trafficking and ‘‘extortion–protection’’ schemes. In 1990 the CIA estimated PLO’s wealth at $8–10 billion, a figure close THE ROAD TO OSLO: THE TRIUMPH OF THE NEW MIDDLE EAST PARADIGM 29 to that of the British National Investigative Service. However, due to mismanagement and corruption, by the early 1990s, much of the PLO’s financial empire was said to be in tatters.