#420 Jerusalem.. Israel's capital?
by Mohamed Sid-Ahmed in Al-Ahram Weekly, 10 October 2002
The new US legislation requiring all official American documents to identify the occupied city of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel has triggered angry reactions throughout the Islamic world. Thousands of demonstrators marched through Gaza, threaten ...
#421 A staring contest
by Azmi Bishara in Al-Ahram Weekly, 10 October 2002
UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, as he prepares for war against Iraq despite overwhelming domestic opposition, has recently felt obliged to call for the speedy creation of a Palestinian state. ...
Yet, before some Palestinians welcome Blair's comments, ...
#423 Selling anti-Semitism
by Jonathan Cook in Al-Ahram Weekly, 10 October 2002
Raanan Rein, a history professor at Tel Aviv University, reveals in his new book "Argentina, Israel and the Jews" (only in Hebrew) that in a private press conference in 1960 Prime Minister David Ben Gurion welcomed the possibility that Israel's kidna ...
#424 Fear and loathing in Gaza
by Graham Usher in Al-Ahram Weekly, 10 October 2002
Israeli assault from without and assassinations from within -- Palestinians in Gaza are living through the "worst kind of warfare". ...
#425 Backdoor deal
by Michael Jansen in Al-Ahram Weekly, 10 October 2002
A bill in Congress, demanding the US Embassy in Israel be moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, would effectively grant de facto US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital. ...
#426 Setting up Israel's 'fence'
by Annika Hampson in Al-Ahram Weekly, 10 October 2002
Israel's "fence" provides not for security but for the grabbing of even more Palestinian land. ...
#427 Sharon's 'successful' slaughter
by Khalid Amayreh in Al-Ahram Weekly, 10 October 2002
The Israeli army committed another horrific massacre against the Palestinians, this time in Khan Yunis, Gaza, as the world looked on in silence. ...
#428 Israel, Iraq, and the United States
by Edward Said in Al-Ahram Weekly, 10 October 2002
America marches to war as if in a trance. We must do everything in our power to slow down and finally stop the recourse to war that has now become a theory and not just a practice. ...