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Peacefacts
PeaceFacts was an FPRI bulletin monitoring the Arab-Israeli peace process. Archived issues are available below.
Saddam Hussein: Stalin on the Tigris
The hanging of Saddam Hussein on December 30, 2006, ended the life of a tyrant extreme even by Middle Eastern ...
Read more »King Fahd’s Saudi Arabia
Harvey Sicherman, Ph.D., is President of the Foreign Policy Research Institute and a former aide to three U.S. secretaries of ...
Read more »ARAFAT, THE MAN WHO WANTED TOO MUCH
Yasser Arafat was the man who wanted too much. He equipped his people with a sense of victimhood, a ...
Read more »Who Is Yasir Arafat?
In the summer of 1994, Yasir Arafat made a telephone call to Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin with a special ...
Read more »ROBERT STRAUSZ-HUPÉ: HIS LIFE AND TIMES
Harvey Sicherman (1945-2011) was the president of FPRI and a former advisor to three secretaries of state. This article ...
Read more »HAFEZ AL-ASSAD: THE MAN WHO WAITED TOO LONG
The debate over whether Hafez al-Assad of Syria would ever make peace with Israel has now been settled: not ...
Read more »HUSSEIN BIN TALAL: SOLDIER-KING
At home, the economy was sour and the peace dividend meager. The Syrians and the Iraqis were also stirring trouble. ...
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Yitzhak Rabin: An Appreciation
The author wrote that “the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin in his seventy-third year ended the life of another ‘son of the founders’ of the state of Israel. He belonged to the generation of 1948—the young men whose military prowess...
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