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Letters
Salon Staff
Readers weigh in Gary Kamiya's "A Tale of Two Miseries," Catholics' view of the presidential election, and Sen. Zell Miller's recent attack on Bush's critics.
The bulldozer leads the way
Ferry Biedermann
He's crushed the road map, now he's ready to roll over his beloved Gaza settlements. Ariel Sharon is the only player still moving in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict -- and that's scary.
Letters
Salon Staff
Israeli whitewash or Arab propaganda? Readers weigh in on Christopher Farah's interview with Israeli historian Benny Morris and the wounds of 1948.
“The Arabs are after our blood”
Christopher Farah
Israeli historian and onetime peacenik Benny Morris now says Palestinians don't want peace -- and that all the Arabs should have been driven out of Israel in 1948.
Winning the battle against terror, losing the war of ideas
Ferry Biedermann
The Bush administration is good at bombing terrorists back to the Stone Age, but terrible at bringing Arabs and Muslims into the modern age.
A year without hope
Aluf Benn
With Israeli and Palestinian leaders hobbled and Bush fearful of intervening in an election year, there will be no progress toward Middle East peace until at least 2005.
Safe area America
Christopher Farah
Graphic novelist Joe Sacco goes back to Sarajevo with his powerful new book "The Fixer" -- and talks about why the entire U.S. population should be tried for war crimes.
The enigma of Earth Station 5
Mathew Honan
Can a file-trading network that promises total anonymity and is based in the Palestinian Territories escape the wrath of the entertainment industry?
Bush’s new frontier
Sidney Blumenthal
Ask not what the U.S. can do for Tony Blair -- or for the sick and elderly.
How Bush betrayed Blair
Sidney Blumenthal
The British P.M. thought he had a deal: He'd support the war and Bush would stand up to Ariel Sharon. But administration neoconservatives, led by Elliott Abrams, killed the deal.
The great debate, reloaded
Gary Kamiya
Has the Iraq war made Americans safer? Nine months after their first encounter, Christopher Hitchens and Mark Danner cross swords once more.
The hacky sac intifada
Christopher Farah
The most popular movement on college campuses is divided between moderate Arab students and radical lefty white kids who have adopted the Palestinian cause as their own.
The world press on the Haifa bombing
Compiled by Laura McClure
From the BBC, the biography of a female suicide bomber.
War is peace!
Jennifer L. Buckendorff
How the Bush administration's propaganda machine -- with the help of Roger Ailes' Fox News -- distorts the truth in the Middle East and at home.
Right Hook
Mark Follman
O'Reilly helps Bush explain the Arab street, and the Spectator's Mark Steyn insists bin Laden is dead. Plus: Buchanan says Gray Davis' recall strategy will cause traffic fatalities to skyrocket.
The world press on Israel
Compiled by Laura McClure
Former speaker of Israel's Knesset Avraham Burg: "There may yet be a Jewish state here, but it will be a different sort, strange and ugly."
Millions die, Bush is silent
Laura McClure
The Congo's descent into a vortex of murder and destruction is the globe's worst human crisis. But as he travels in Africa this week, the president will ignore it.
Letters
Salon Staff
Readers respond -- at times identically -- to Gary Kamiya's "A Faint Sliver of Mideast Hope."
Bush plunges into the Middle East quagmire
Aluf Benn
The president's sudden, passionate intervention surprised everyone. But Israeli officials doubt he's in it for the long haul.
A faint sliver of Mideast hope
Gary Kamiya
Revelations that Bush talked tough to Sharon and feels for the Palestinians may signal his willingness to pressure the Israeli leader to make peace. Or they could be another disappointment in a
long history of betrayals.
Allies: Where are the WMDs?!
Jake Tapper
The Dems and the U.S. public may meekly accept the administration's ever-changing answers about Saddam's alleged weapons. But our foreign allies don't -- and the more the White House spins, the angrier they get.
Dixie Chicked in the heartland
Salon Staff
New York Times reporter Chris Hedges warns the graduates of Rockford College that a warmongering America is "flirting with its own destruction" -- and gets booed off the stage.
Bush’s Mideast test
Aluf Benn
With his much vaunted peace plan dead in the water, will the president push Israeli leader Ariel Sharon to take baby steps on removing settlements when the two meet next week?
Benny Elon’s long, strange trip
Claire Tristram
Israel's radical-right tourism minister, who wants Palestinians transferred to Jordan, came to Washington to huddle with his best American friends -- not Jews, but the Christian right.
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