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May 3, 2002
Yigal Bronner
A Journey to Beit Jalla
CounterPunch
Wire
Otto
Reich Named to Board of School of the Americas
John Troyer
Hatemongers Try to Cleanse History:
Gays and 9/11
John Stauber
Big
Food/Tobacco/Booze
Attacks "Mad Cow" Authors
Kathleen Christison
Before There Was Terrorism
May 2, 2002
CounterPunch
Wire
Rep.
Dick Armey Calls for Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians
Rami Kaplan
Israeli Soldiers Resisting
the Occupation:
Why We Refuse to Fight
Carol
Norris
Subterranean
Mini-Nuke Blues
Bernard Weiner
A Peek Inside Colin Powell's Personal
Diary
May 1, 2002
Badiou,
Michel, Lazarus
French
Elections:
What is to be Done?
Baruch Kimmerling
The Battle of Jenin as
an Inter-Ethnic War
Edward
Hammond
Hiding
History:
NAS Suppresses Chem/Bio War Documents
Kristen Schurr
Inside Gaza
Sam Bahour
Corporate
America and
the Israeli Occupation
Jacques Ranciere
Prisoners of the Infinite
April 30, 2002
Mike Leon
Chomsky,
Letters to the Writer and the Peace Movement
Dave Marsh
The FBI and the Music
Industry: Paying the Cost to Feed the Boss
Steen
Sohn
Something
Rotten in Denmark:
New Danish Government's Alliance with Far Right
Desmond Tutu
Apartheid in the Holy Land
Christopher
Reilly
Kissinger:
the Wanted Man
April 29, 2002
Larry Hales
At the Church of the Nativity
Michael
Colby
The
Times Does Brockovich:
Ralph Nader with Cleavage?
CounterPunch Wire
Bank Robs Publisher,
Vows to Repeat
Gavin
Keeney
So
Long, Frank O. Gehry?
April 28, 2002
Michael Neumann
The Jewish Left and Palestine
April 27, 2002
Dr. Susan
Block
Adelphia
Going Down:
Cover Ups, Censorship
and Naughty Accounting
Jordy Cummings
Stuck Inside the Journalism School
Pyramid
Jeffrey
St. Clair
Set
This Flag on Fire!
April 26, 2002
Tom Turnipseed
Act
Now to Stop the Killing
of an Innocent Man
Mokhiber
/ Weissman
Anti-Bribery
Law Takes a Hit
Tariq Ali
Letter to a Young Muslim
April 25, 2002
Francis
A. Boyle
Home
Brew? Biowarfare,
Terror Weapons and the US
Adam Federman
"And the Earth Wept"
Bush at Saranac Lake
Stanton
and Madsen
US
Media Interests:
Champions of Profit, Propaganda and Puffery
Aaron Hawley
Cop a Buzz Day in Vermont:
Education v. Incarceration
David
Vest
Code
Red: Politics and Wordplay at the Vatican
Bernard Weiner
Time Out! A Pause for Longer-Range
Thinking
Rep. Dennis
Kucinich
Standing
with the Peace Movement
April 24, 2002
David Vest
State of Politics in France:
Code Bleu
Jean Fallow
A20
in Seattle:
Cops Get Rough, Again
Kevin Alexander Gray
Help Save the Life of an Innocent Man:
Ask for Clemency for Ricky Johnson
Tanya
Reinhart
Jenin,
the Propaganda Battle
Todd May
Drowning Children, Palestinians and American
Responsibility
Alexander
Cockburn
The
Loneliest Road
Nir Rosen
The Broken Home:
Revisiting Israel
Mokhiber
/ Weissman
A
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April 23, 2002
Brian Wood
Where Is the Aid for the Victims in
Jenin?
John Chuckman
I,
George:
Gomer as Claudius
Norman Madarasz
French Presidential Elections
Absenteeism and Le Pen
Dr. Susan
Block
Bernard
Parks, Goodbye:
A Farewell to My Chief
Joan Smith
Who Will Rid Us of
These Pedophile Priests?
April 22, 2002
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Wire
EPA
Ombudsman Resigns
in Protest
Dave Marsh
DeskScan: What's Playing
at My House This Week
Ron Jacobs
A20
in DC: Taking the
Message to the Beast's Belly
Kathy Kelly
An Open Letter to
Israeli Soldiers
Irit Katriel
Word
Games and Body Bags
Rep. Cynthia McKinney
We Come for Peace
Daniel
Bar-Tal
Is
There a Way Out?
Occupation, Terror
and Understanding
David Wilson
A Week of Coups, But Now
The Freedom Train Hits Town
Shaik
Ubaid
Today
I Was a Palestinian
April 21, 2002
Michelle Campos
Suckered Again in Israel
Mike Leon
200,000
in DC Protest Say:
"We Are All Palestinians Today"
C.G. Estabrook
Sex and Power in Catholicism
Kathy
Kelly
Gimme
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May
4, 2002
Sharon the Merciless,
Arafat the Corrupt:
Nothing
Meaningful to Offer Each Other
by Robert Fisk
The Independent
Jerusalem
Self-delusion has crossed the Atlantic. George
Bush is having visions again - just as he did before the most
recent bloodbath in Israel and Palestine - and Colin Powell,
whose latest Middle East mission was a wholesale disaster, wants
to devise "a set of principles" for an Arab-Israeli
peace. And, as usual, it is the occupied, not the occupier, who
is warned this is the "last chance" for peace.
That the United States wants to enlist
the Europeans, Russia and the UN in its plans for a Middle East
peace conference is perhaps the only sign of realism in the initiative.
Otherwise, it's the same old twaddle.
Yasser Arafat has to earn "trust"
- this from the White House spokesman, Ari Fleischer - and will
not, for the moment, receive any invitations to the White House.
He has to curb "terror". But Ariel Sharon, whose army
was accused of war crimes in Jenin by Human Rights Watch yesterday,
will be joshing with Mr Bush in Washington next week.
It was impossible, in Jerusalem yesterday,
to take any of this seriously.
Mr Arafat had just emerged from his Ramallah
headquarters to call the Israelis "Nazis" while Mr
Sharon, only two days earlier, had announced that Netzarim, the
illegal Jewish settlement in the Palestinian Gaza Strip, was
the same as Tel Aviv. Since Mr Sharon came to power, no fewer
than 34 new settlements or outposts for Jews, and Jews only,
on Arab land, have been constructed.
A glance at the events of the past 24
hours shows just how far the Bush administration has strayed
from reality. For days, the US President demanded that Israel
withdraw its troops from West Bank cities. Mr Sharon simply ignored
him. "When I say withdraw, I mean it," Mr Bush snapped
at one point. Mr Sharon ignored him.
Yesterday, as Mr Powell warned Mr Arafat
that it was his "last chance" to show his leadership,
the Israeli Prime Minister was sending an armoured column to
re-invade the Palestinian city of Nablus for the second time
in two weeks. There was to be no "last chance" for
Mr Sharon; only for the iniquitous Mr Arafat.
And what on earth, one wondered, was
the point in parading the UN secretary general, Kofi Annan, alongside
Mr Powell on Thursday night? The UN Security Council resolution
calling for an Israeli withdrawal from Palestinian Authority
areas of the West Bank - supported by the United States - is
still being flagrantly ignored by Israel. Only a day earlier,
Mr Annan was forced, in utter humiliation, to disband his fact-finding
mission to Jenin after Israel refused to accept it. So what was
his presence supposed to mean? The impotent secretary general
just stood next to the equally impotent US Secretary of State.
The squalid, corrupt little dictator
of Ramallah, Mr Arafat, and the brutal, merciless leader of the
Middle East's mightiest army, Mr Sharon, have nothing to offer
each other. Mr Arafat cannot fulfil his required role of colonial
governor - to "control his own people" - while Mr Sharon
cannot fulfil his promise to provide Israelis with security.
As one of his legal advisers admitted hours after Washington's
call for a peace conference, the diminution in Palestinian violence
"won't last for ever".
Never, since the end of the 1991 Gulf
War, have Israelis and Palestinians been so far apart. So what
possible inducements can Washington extend to either side? If
Mr Arafat wants an end to occupation and to settlements on Palestinian
land, and a capital in east Jerusalem, Mr Sharon will not oblige.
If Mr Sharon wants to go on building settlements and maintaining
the occupation and claiming all of Jerusalem as the "eternal
and unified capital of Israel", Mr Arafat will not oblige.
Meanwhile, the Americans blissfully hope
that Mr Bush's "visions" - of Israeli and Palestinian
states happily co-existing side by side - will survive the next
two months. How is this possible? It is only a matter of time
before the next vicious Palestinian suicide bomber blows up himself
or herself in an Israeli city. And thus only a matter of time
before Israel smashes its way into West Bank cities all over
again.
In fact, Israel doesn't need an excuse
to do this any more.
Yesterday's thrust into Nablus was another
precedent. Far from being a retaliation, Israel did not invade
Palestinian territory in response to Palestinian attacks. It
said it had entered Nablus to prevent "future" attacks.
Needless to say, the nature of this precedent went unreported.
So we are back to the "last chance".
But "last chance" for what? If Mr Arafat does not earn
that all-purpose American "trust", what is supposed
to happen? Is he to be liquidated? Will the Americans choose
another Palestinian leader? Or will they just let the Israelis
build more settlements (something the Israelis are doing anyway)
and abandon the "visions" and walk away from the Palestinians,
leaving them to the mercy of Mr Sharon and his dreams of a Greater
Israel?
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