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Bush’s Brezhnev period
Sidney Blumenthal
Rejecting criticism and mouthing meaningless bromides, Bush gave a speech so stagnant it would have made the Politburo proud.
How do you like your democracy now, Mr. Bush?
Juan Cole
Hamas' stunning victory underlines the contradictions and hypocrisies in Bush's Mideast policies.
After Sharon
Anna Reimann
The former Israeli ambassador to Germany talks about what Ariel Sharon's stroke means for his political party -- and for Israel-Palestine relations.
“Munich”
Stephanie Zacharek
Steven Spielberg tries to untangle the knotty Palestinian-Israeli problem. Does he succeed? And should he be commended just for trying?
Blood and betrayal
Gary Kamiya
After four years of the badly botched "war on terror," are we ready to hear the hard words of Robert Fisk -- a gutsy war correspondent who says the West has wronged the Middle East?
A history of violence
James Norton
Robert Dreyfuss explains how America's meddling in the Middle East unleashed the current deadly wave of Islamic fundamentalism.
“This can’t be happening!”
Salon Staff
As part of our 10th anniversary, TT is highlighting the posts that defined our decade. This week -- a life-changing morning we watched together.
All the vice president’s men
Juan Cole
The ideologues in Cheney's inner circle drummed up a war. Now their zealotry is blowing up in their faces.
The one and three-quarter-state solution?
Jonathan Freedland
So much for those who thought Israel's withdrawal from Gaza would trigger rapid progress toward peace.
The road to hell
Gary Kamiya
In the definitive book about the Iraq war, liberal hawk George Packer tells the whole story of America's worst foreign-policy debacle -- and reveals how good intentions can go terribly wrong.
Desperately seeking peace
Mark Sorkin
Jennifer Miller, the daughter of a top Middle East diplomat, went on "a search for hope" among young Israelis and Palestinians. But her journey is too self-centered and sentimental to be illuminating.
What went wrong
Gary Kamiya
In Anthony Shadid's extraordinary new book about the Iraq war, the Iraqis themselves finally speak. Their stories provide the most eloquent indictment yet of America's disastrous Middle East adventure.
Letters
Salon Staff
Readers react to Ayelet Waldman's column criticizing the indoctrination of Gaza's youngest settlers.
Why racial profiling doesn’t work
Kim Zetter
Terrorist attacks have been carried out by people of all ethnicities. What police need to look for is strange behavior, not dark skin.
Eyeless in Gaza
Daoud Kuttab
For Palestinians, the baffling Israeli withdrawal is a milestone -- but their future is still shrouded in uncertainty.
The mother of all battles
Joan Walsh
Cindy Sheehan has almost single-handedly launched an American antiwar movement. And in the process, she's exposed a president's feet of clay.
Bush vs. Sheehan: The race to the bottom
T.g.
The Republicans have only one way to save George W. Bush from Cindy Sheehan: Make her less popular than he is.
Dershowitz vs. Finkelstein
Gary Younge
When pro-Israel attorney Alan Dershowitz learned that scholar and Israel critic Norman Finkelstein was writing a book that savaged him and his views, he tried to prevent its publication. Then things got really ugly.
Sapphic soldiers
Christine Smallwood
Tereska Torres -- author of 1950s lesbian pulp novel "Women's Barracks" -- talks about the ladies of the Free French Forces, shocking American audiences, and being mistaken for a "lesbian writer."
Killer instincts
Laura Miller
What inspires young men and women to become suicide bombers? Religious fanaticism? Nationalism? Alienation? Or some toxic mix of all three?
Life after the settlements
Carolin Emcke
When Israel withdraws from the Gaza Strip in August, Palestinians will contend with a society shattered by occupation and the powerlessness of its own leadership.
Blair gets his Africa deal
Aaron Kinney
The G-8 nations doubled their aid to Africa, but not everyone is happy.
The Middle East’s real problem: The mafia
Ferry Biedermann
How can democracy take root in countries run by capi di tutti capi? And after the Iraq debacle, can Bush really be considering making Syria, too, an offer it can't refuse?
“Time is our greatest enemy”
Chris McGreal
Bush rebuffs Abbas on his appeal for help in reviving the U.S.-led "road map" to peace with Israel.
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