Reviews of: A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples by Ilan Pappe Cambridge, 333 pp, £15.99 The Gun…
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A Palestinian Mandela?
One place to look for the “new and different Palestinian leadership” that President George Bush demanded last Monday, is Petach…
Continue reading →Sharon, the failed kingmaker
Voices in Israel, including within Ariel Sharon’s cabinet, are calling on their prime minister to crown his reconquista of the…
Continue reading →Palestine’s Petain?
Yasser Arafat Has Escaped Again – But His People Are Having To Pay For His Liberty The old fox escaped…
Continue reading →Ending the occupation
Paris The return of Secretary of State Colin Powell to Israel has revived language that, until now, the Bush administration…
Continue reading →Empty chair protest as Israelis ban Arafat from Bethlehem special Mass
At Midnight Mass in St Catherine’s Roman Catholic Church, the senior Roman Catholic clergyman in the Holy Land, Latin Patriarch…
Continue reading →The scene is set for another Lebanon
Another Palestinian has killed himself in Jerusalem. He was walking towards the David Citadel Hotel in King David Street, where…
Continue reading →The first casualty
IN 1984 I filed a report to ABC News on Israeli death squads in south Lebanon that was never broadcast.…
Continue reading →When in doubt, just bomb Lebanon
When Israel gets angry, try not to be Lebanese. It doesn’t seem to matter who provokes Israel’s wrath, its government…
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