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Fisk: Arabs Don't Want War On Iraq
Znet Article, March, 12 2002
Robert Fisk
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US Vice-President Dick Cheney arrived yesterday in a Middle East far more concerned with the firestorm between the Palestinians and the Israelis than with Washington's plans for a war with Iraq. President George Bush may believe Iraq is part of an...
Cockburn: The Nightmare in Israel
Znet Article, March, 12 2002
Alexander Cockburn
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By Let's start with Baruch Kimmering, a sociologist at Hebrew University. Here's what he sent to the Jerusalem Weekly Kol Ha'Ir last month, which duly published it: "I accuse Ariel Sharon of creating a process in which he will not only intensify t...
Simeon: Threads of Conscience
Znet Article, March, 11 2002
Dilip Simeon
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Noam Chomsky - Rogue States - th...
Hass: Fear and loathing in Balata
Znet Article, March, 09 2002
Amira Hass
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Palestinian women reacting to explosions in Balata last Friday. "Why is the IDF allowed to harm Palestinian civilians and we aren't allowed to harm Israeli civilians?" they asked in the refugee camp. (Photo: AP) In Ha_aretz, the Israeli Newspaper...
Cockburn: The Nightmare In Israel
Znet Article, March, 08 2002
Alexander Cockburn
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Let's start with Baruch Kimmering, a sociologist at Hebrew University. Here's what he sent to the Jerusalem Weekly Kol Ha'Ir last month, which duly published it: "I accuse Ariel Sharon of creating a process in which he will not only intensify the ...
Avnery: How To Torpedo The Saudis
Znet Article, March, 07 2002
Uri Avnery
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If, in May 1967, an Arab prince had proposed that the whole Arab world would recognize Israel and establish normal relations with it, in return for Israel's recognition of the Green Line border, we would have believed that the days of the Messiah ...
Benvenisti: The checkpoints of arrogance
Znet Article, March, 07 2002
Meron Benvenisti
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The tragic failures exposed by the killing of Israel Defense Forces troops at checkpoints at the hands of Palestinian guerrillas released a flood of criticism that forced the military command to learn some lessons and initiate changes in the manag...
Fisk: America's Morality Has Been Distorted By September 11th
Znet Article, March, 07 2002
Robert Fisk
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In Afghan fields, the poppies blow. Yes, even as the Americans are moving deeper into the Afghan trap, the warlords and gangsters running much of the western-supported Afghan government are ensuring a bumper new crop of heroin for the world's mark...
Freedland: Israel's Army of Peace
Znet Article, March, 06 2002
Jonathan Freedland
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By Even the most stoic of Israelis are beginning to feel scared. The sight of a single family - father, mother and two daughters, one aged seven, the other a toddler - wiped out on a busy Jerusalem street has shocked those who thought they could b...
Foot: In Defense Of Opression
Znet Article, March, 06 2002
Paul Foot
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The cycle of death goes on and on. Nearly 50 Palestinians dead in the Israeli army attacks on refugee camps over the past couple of days; 10 Israeli soldiers dead at an army checkpoint near Ramallah. In the west there is a universal shaking of sop...
Turnipseed: War Is Wrong
Znet Article, March, 06 2002
Tom Turnipseed
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I knew war was terribly wrong when I saw pictures of children like myself desperately attempting to flee the flames of bombed German cities in newspapers and on the newsreels during World War II. As an eight year old, I identified with the childre...
Philips: Israeli Army Faces Defeat
Znet Article, March, 06 2002
Alan Philips
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Israel's leading military historian has a bleak message for the country's generals: the army is winning the battle against Palestinian armed groups, but the final result can only be defeat - and perhaps civil war at home. Martin van Creveld, profe...
Levy: The view from Beit El
Znet Article, March, 04 2002
Gideon Levy
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Most Israelis, it is safe to assume, have never and probably will never visit the settlement of Beit El. They therefore have no idea what an inhabitant of that large settlement sees when he opens his window. To the east, the settler sees nothing b...
Said: THOUGHTS ABOUT AMERICA
Znet Article, March, 02 2002
Edward Said
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I don't know a single Arab or Muslim American who does not now feel that he or she belongs to the enemy camp, and that being in the United States at this moment provides us with an especially unpleasant experience of alienation and widespread, qui...
Marjaee: The Axis of Evil cabal and the case of Iran
Zmag Article, March, 01 2002
Fareed Marjaee
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The Axis of Evil cabal and the case of Iran
Pepper: A LICENCE FOR GOVERNMENT MINISTERS TO KILL, TORTURE, RAPE AND ABDUCT THEIR PEOPLE
Znet Article, March, 01 2002
William f. Pepper
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On 14 February 2002 the International Court of Justice issued its Judgement in the case of the Democratic Republic of the Congo v Belgium. The ruling is one of the most significant ever issued by the Court in respect of the relationship and accoun...
Edwards: IRAQ IN THE GUNSIGHTS
Znet Article, February, 28 2002
David Edwards
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In a recent article, Nick Cohen commented on the rationale behind the extraordinary media obsession with predicting the future. Cohen compares BBC journalists with TV crystal ball-gazer, Mystic Meg: "Instead of being honest, broadcasters pose a...
Solomon: Bad News When Madmen Lead The Blind
Commentary, February, 27 2002
Norman Solomon
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The autumn started with a huge national jolt of shock, fear, grief and anger. Winter has begun with many worries here at home and grim satisfaction about warfare abroad. A line from "King Lear," early in Act 4, is hauntingly appropriate:
Cusac: Ill Treatment On Our Shores
Znet Article, February, 26 2002
Anne marie- Cusac
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On October 24, Muhammed Butt died of a heart attack at the Hudson County Correctional Center in Kearny, New Jersey. Butt, a Pakistani national, was detained on September 19 by the FBI as a suspect connected with the September 11 attacks. He was th...
Gumbel: The Disappeared
Znet Article, February, 26 2002
Andrew Gumbel
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They came for Rabih Haddad in the afternoon, as his family was getting ready to celebrate the end of Ramadan. Three men from the Immigration and Naturalization Service took him away from the apartment in Ann Arbor, Michigan, that he shared w...


