Barney Frank Christoph Franz Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority President First Vice-President, Strategy and Fi

at odds with rising religiosity and simultaneously mistrusted by the monarchies it tried to overthrow. Yet it controls the Palestinian proto- state, the Palestinian National Authority, and thus will be claiming a U.N. vote on Palestinian statehood. Hamas, on the other hand, is very much representative of current trends in the Islam

:00 Video Presentation: "Local Change, Global Impact: The Middle East & The World" 10:00 — 10:30 Keynote Address HE Mr. Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian National Authority 10:30 — 12:30 Session 1. Interdependence: The World and the Middle East A session on emerging geopolitical and global security. economic. developme

rs are pointing at two potential culprits; then Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon and Mohammad Dahlan, the former chief of Preventive Security in the Palestinian National Authority (PNA). Let us round up the usual suspects in Arafat's death. One obviously is Sharon, who often lamented publicly that he did not eliminate Arafat