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2003

December

Dec 31: Wagging the Dog: Two Tales
(Clyde Prestowitz / Rogue Nation: American Unilateralism and the Failure of Good Intentions)

Dec 31: Israel’s “Security” Wall:
(A Document by PLO Negotiations Affairs Department)

Dec 28: The Price of Ignorance
(Gideon Levy / Haaretz)

Dec 15: An Arab Liberal's Anguish
(Alia Fattouh / The Christian Science Monitor)

November

Nov 30: The Killing Fields of Rafah
(Gideon Levy / Haaretz)

Nov 18: Arab, Gay Students Most at Risk
(Kim Kozlowski / Detroit News)

Nov 06: Loss of Feith in Douglas
(Jim Lobe / Inter Press Service)

October

Oct 31: Top Israeli Officer Says Tactics Are Backfiring
(Molly Moore / The Washington Post)

Oct 28: Bush Retreats From Mideast Peace Efforts
(Barbara Slavin / USA Today)

Oct 23: Remember the Lessons of Beirut
(Lawrence Pintak / Detroit Free Press)

Oct 23: Israel: The Alternative
(Tony Judt / The New York Review of Books)

Oct 20: The Return of Arabophobia
(Neil Clark / The Guardian)

Oct 13: American Beauty
(Chemi Shalev / Maariv)

Oct 07: Excerpts from Americans for Peace Now: Middle East Peace Report

September

Sep 17: The War on America's Principles
(Tom Campbell / Mercury News)

Sep 14: Driven Back to a Place We Would Rather Not Be
(Muhanned Tull / The Washington Post)

Sep 12: 'These Additional Powers Are Not Necessary'
(Arian Campo-Flores / Newsweek)

August

Aug 29: A Failed Israeli Society Collapses
(Avraham Burg / The Jewish Forward)

Aug 23: Bush Taps Controversial Philadelphia Scholar Named to Institute of Peace
(Thomas Ginsberg / The Philadelphia Inquirer)

Aug 21: John Ashcroft Goes for a Spin
(The Philadelphia Daily News)

Aug 16: Iranian Exiles' Offices Shuttered
(Eli J. Lake / The Washington Times)

July

Jul 31: Separation Fence Traps 12,000 Palestinians
(Arnon Regular / Haaretz)

Jul 31: Sharon Government's Separation Plan Defines Palestine's Provisional Borders
(Geoffrey Aronson / Foundation for Middle East Peace)

Jul 25: Twilight Zone: How they spent their summer vacation
(Gideon Levy / Ha'aretz)

Jul 24: GOP, Dems Lay Plans to Woo Arab-Americans
(Natalie Y. Moore / The Detroit News)

Jul 20: Mideast, Civil Liberties Concern Arab-Americans
(James Q. Lynch / The Gazette (Cedar Rapids-Iowa City))

June

Jun 24: Unfit for Human Dwelling
(B. Michael / Yediot Ahronoth)

Jun 23: Updates on settlement activity in the West Bank
(Mideast Mirror)

Jun 23: Middle East Peace Report
(Americans for Peace Now)

Jun 17: Cheers to Jeers
(Nicholas Kristof / New York Times)

Jun 13: 9/11 Detainees' Treatment Casts a Deep Shadow
(Morton H. Halperin and Ken Gude / LA Times)

Jun 13: Road Map Hawks and Doves
(James Besser / The Jewish Week)

Jun 12: 9/11 Detainees Win U.S. Apology, Clean Record
(Kim Barker and Matt O'Connor / Chicago Tribune)

Jun 07: Bush's Dilemma: Even Cowboys Need Friends
(The Daily Star)

Jun 02: The "Wall" is Not Just a Wall
(Sara Roy / The Daily Star, Opinion (Lebanon))

Jun 02: Harsh Internal Report on Justice Detentions Gets Mixed Reception
(Jim McGee / Congressional Quarterly)

May

May 27: A Cage for Palestinians
(Jonathan Cook / International Herald Tribune)

May 23: A Wall in Their Heart
(Meron Rappaport / Yedioth Aharonoth)

May 21: Why Two Women Went to War
(Naomi Klein / The Globe and Mail)

May 20: A Terrorist U.S. Ally?
(Daniel Pipes and Patrick Clawson / The New York Post)

May 19: Zionist Meeting Brands 'Road Map' as Heresy
(Julia Duin / Washington Times)

May 19: Moving Toward Permanent Control of the Territories
(Danny Rubinstein / Ha'aretz)

May 19: Surveillance State
(James Bovard / The American Conservative)

May 16: Empty Gestures
(Gideon Levy / Ha'aretz)

May 15: Operation Liberty Shield Quietly Terminated
(Lawyers Committee for Human Rights / Asylum Protection News 15)

May 11: Which Sharon Will We See Next? Both, of Course
(Aluf Benn / Washington Post)

May 09: Iraq to Davidson: Free us from Chaos
(Erica Beshears / Charlotte Observer)

May 08: Davidson-Baghdad Follow-up Brings More Criticism of U.S. Policy
(Tim Whitmire / Associated Press)

May 07: Not Too Much for an Alien
(David Cole / Washington Post)

May 06: Israelis Fire on Parents of Injured British Peace Activist
(Cahal Milmo / Independent)

May 04: Pentagon Dominates US Foreign Policy with Dubious Intelligence: Report
(Dick Polman / Philadelphia Inquirer)

May 04: Neoconservatives
(Dick Polman / Philadelphia Inquirer)

May 03: What if they Withdrew?
(Abdullah Abu Alsamh / Arab News)

May 01: 'It's a Terrible Thing, Living with the Knowledge that you Crushed our Daughter'
(Nathan Guttman / Ha'aretz)

April

Apr 30: A Combative Pick for Peace Panel
(The Chicago Tribune)

Apr 27: Settlements Erode Democracy
(Jo-Ann Mort / LA Times)

Apr 22: Did Bush Deceive Us in His Rush to War?
(Robert Scheer / LA Times)

Apr 22: Bush Nominee Says the President Shouldn't Have Said Islam is Peaceful
(Rachel Zoll / Associated Press)

Apr 21: Right to Remain Silent Meets Politics of Protest
(Joyce Purnick / New York Times)

Apr 21: What Is it Good For?
(Bob Herbert / New York Times)

Apr 21: Local Officials Rise Up to Defy The Patriot Act
(Evelyn Nieves / Washington Post)

Apr 20: Pentagon Expects Long-Term Access to Four Key Bases in Iraq
(Thom Shanker and Eric Schmitt / New York Times)

Apr 20: A Tale of Two Fridays
(Maureen Dowd / New York Times)

Apr 17: Israel Wants Strike on Syria While Iron's Hot
(Robert Novak / Chicago Sun-Times)

Apr 16: Idea of Syrian Rollback Starts To Gain
(Adam Daifallah / New York Sun)

Apr 15: Bush Vetoes Syria War Plan
(Julian Borger, Michael White, Ewen MacAskill, Nicholas Watt / The Guardian)

Apr 15: Iraqi Protesters Block Marines in Kut
(Burt Herman / Associated Press)

Apr 15: At Least 10 Killed in Mosul Shooting, US Troops Blamed
(Agence France Presse)

Apr 15: Anti-American Protests Intensify in Iraq
(Peter Mackler / Agence France Presse)

Apr 15: Onward Christian Soldiers
(Max Blumenthal / Salon.com)

Apr 15: Evangelize Elsewhere
(Editorial / Washington Post)

Apr 15: Graham Invitation Irks Muslims at Pentagon
(Alan Cooperman / Washington Post)

Apr 15: Bush and Sharon Draw a Map of Their Own
(Henry Siegman / International Herald Tribune)

Apr 14: Israel to Use Flechette Shells
(News 24)

Apr 14: Amendments Threat Puts FISA Program on Hold
(Jennifer A. Dlouhy / Congressional Quarterly)

Apr 13: Conservatives, Liberals Fear Broader Anti-Terror Powers
(Michelle Mittelstadt / Dallas Morning News)

Apr 13: A Faith-Based Initiative
(Amanda Bower and Aparisim Ghosh / Time)

Apr 11: Foreign Policy Scholars Criticize Pipes Nomination
(Ori Nir / The Forward)

Apr 11: The Olive Tree Chain Saw Massacre Apparently Stars Settlers
(Akiva Eldar / Ha'aretz)

Apr 11: Vanishing Liberties: Where's the Press?
(Nat Hentoff / Village Voice)

Apr 11: Conservative constitutional catfight!
(Jake Tapper / Salon.com)

Apr 11: With 'Road Map' Set, Battle Shifts To Its Implementation
(Mark Perelman / The Forward)

Apr 11: Church Leaders Encourage New Initiatives to Propel Israeli-Palestinian Peace
(Churches for Middle East Peace)

Apr 11: The Perils of Homeland Security
(Victor Johnson / The Chronicle of Higher Education)

Apr 10: Rise in Hate Crimes Worries Arab-Americans
(Amanda Paulson / The Christian Science Monitor)

Apr 09: Republicans Want Terror Law Made Permanent
(Eric Lichtblau / The New York Times)

Apr 08: CIA Report Slams Pentagon's Favorite Iraqi
(Eli J. Lake / UPI)

Apr 08: As 'Road Map' Presentation Nears, Israel Presses Case for Revisions
(Leslie Susser / JTA)

Apr 08: US-Backed Militia Terrorizes Town
(Charles Clover / The Financial Times)

Apr 07: The Catch-22 of Middle East Peace
(Toronto Star)

Apr 07: On West Bank, Fear of "Dangerous Precedent"
(Ben Lynfield / The Christian Science Monitor)

Apr 06: For Iraq: Déjà Vu All Over Again
(Libby Copeland / Washington Post)

Apr 06: Nation May See U.S. As Latest In Line of Conquerors
(Joseph Wilson / San Jose Mercury News)

Apr 05: Coble Cancels Speech at Guilford Over Objections to WWII Remarks
(Associated Press)

Apr 05: Israel: It Will Reject U.S.-Backed Plan
(Ramit Plushnick-Masti / Associated Press)

Apr 04: US Withdraws Rights Report
(News24.com, South Africa)

Apr 03: Terrorism Task Force Detains an American Without Charges
(Timothy Egan / The New York Times)

Apr 02: Strains of War Test Allies
(David Charter, Tom Baldwin and Michael Evans / The Times)

Apr 02: Beneath the Surface
(Terry M. Neal / Washingtonpost.com)

Apr 02: Arab Showplace? Could It Be the West Bank?
(James Bennet / New York Times)

Apr 02: American Jews Tread Softly on 'Road Map' During War in Iraq
(Nathan Guttman / Ha'aretz)

Apr 01: Send in the Bulldozers
(Chris McGreal / The Guardian)

March

Mar 31: NY Man Says Targeted Arabs in Killings - Police
(Reuters)

Mar 31: The Mad Arab on our Side: Meet Lieutenant General John Abizaid
(Jim Geraghty / States News Service)

Mar 29: U.S. Road Map Leads Down a Familiar Path
(For the Record No. 152)

Mar 27: U.N. Rights Expert: Israeli Barrier in Palestinian Territory is Illegal Annexation
(Naomi Koppel / Associated Press)

Mar 26: Why the U.S. Needs a Quick War
(Claude Salhani / UPI)

Mar 25: U.S. Lifts FBI Criminal Database Checks
(Associated Press)

Mar 24: Richard Perle's Conflict
(The New York Times)

Mar 24: U.S. Steps Up Secret Surveillance
(Dan Eggen and Robert O'Harrow Jr. / Washington Post)

Mar 24: Who Lied to Whom
(Seymour Hersh / The New Yorker)

Mar 23: Perle's Plunder Blunder
(Maureen Dowd / New York Times)

Mar 21: Pro-Israel General Will Oversee Iraq
(Alana Newhouse / The Forward)

Mar 20: Third U.S. Diplomat Resigns over Iraq Policy
(Robert Jamieson / Reuters)

Mar 20: Rachel Corrie's Echo
(John Nichols / The Nation)

Mar 19: Rachel Corrie Put a Local Face on Faraway Suffering
(Robert Jamieson / Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

Mar 18: Activist's Memorial Service Disrupted
(Chris McGreal / The Guardian)

Mar 18: There Will Absolutely Be No Dissension
(Stanley I. Kutler / Chicago Tribune)

Mar 14: Patterns of Global Terrorism
(Karen Armstrong / IViews.com)

Mar 14: The Impact of Bush Linking 9/11 and Iraq
(Linda Feldman / Christian Science Monitor)

Mar 14: Rockefeller Requests FBI Investigation of Forged Iraq Documents
(Ken Guggenheim / Associated Press)

Mar 13: Davidson and Baghdad: The Student Debate
(Erica Beshears / The Charlotte Observer)

Mar 13: Students in Baghdad, N.C. Debate War
(Tim Whitmere / Associated Press)

Mar 12: Threat of War: Halliburton
(Robert Bryce and Julian Borger / The Guardian)

Mar 10: U.S. Diplomat Resigns Over Iraq War Plans
(Reuters)

Mar 10: The Plan: Were Neo-Conservatives’ 1998 Memos a Blueprint for Iraq War?
(ABCNews.com)

Mar 10: U.S. Invites Bids for Iraq Reconstruction Work
(Reuters)

Mar 07: Let Them Hate as Long as They Fear
(Paul Krugman / New York Times)

Mar 06: Playing Texas Poker, Bush Bets All on Iraq
(Robert Novak / Chicago Sun Times)

Mar 05: U.S. Nixes Netanyahu Urging to Prioritize Israeli Aid Request
(Aluf Benn / Haaretz)

Mar 04: Palestinians Who Are Working Toward Peace
(David Nassar / The Christian Science Monitor)

Mar 02: How Do We Get Out of the Current Situation?
(A Symposium Featuring Ami Ayalon and Prof. Sari Nusseibeh)

February

Feb 28: Americans Say “No” to Extra Aid for Israel
(Zogby International's "Real America" newsletter)

Feb 27: U.S. Diplomat Resigns
(Felicity Barringer / New York Times)

Feb 26: Even a Superpower Needs Help
(Chas W. Freeman Jr. / New York Times)

Feb 25: New Head of House Panel Says She'll Go to Mat on Israel Issues
(Matthew E. Berger / Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Feb 24: Deliver Us from Ashcroft
(Nat Hentoff / Washington Times)

Feb 22: IRAQ CRISIS: US Army's 'Mad Arab' Tipped for Governor Role
(Peter Spiegel / Financial Times)

Feb 20: Democrats Must Raise Questions About War
(James Zogby / The Baltimore Sun, The Charlotte Observer)

Feb 18: Israel To Partition Bethlehem With Wall
(Catholic News Service)

Feb 14: A Bush-Sharon Doctrine?
(Arnaud de Borchgrave / The Washington Times)

Feb 09: Bush and Sharon Nearly Identical on Mideast Policy
(Robert G. Kaiser / Washington Post)

Feb 08: Illinois Child Facing Deportation
(Noreen S. Ahmed-Ullah / Chicago Tribune)

Feb 04: US Withdraws Rights Report
(South African News)

Feb 04: Wrong Message To the Muslim World
(Ejaz Haider / Washington Post)

Feb 02: 4 soldiers, 20 Palestinian Detainees Hurt in Prison Clashes
(Amos Harel / Ha'aretz Internet)

January

Jan 31: I.N.S. Shredder Ended Work Backlog, U.S. Says
(John M. Broder / The New York Times)

Jan 29: Our Nuclear Talk Gravely Imperils Us
(Edward M. Kennedy, Senator for Massachusetts / LA Times)

Jan 29: Elections in Israel
(Ali Abunimah / Washington Post/Live Online)

Jan 28: Listening to the Arabs of New York
(Kareem Fahim / Village Voice)

Jan 28: Immigration Status: City Employees Cannot Ask
(Jim Brunner / Seattle Times)

Jan 28: Council Adopts Immigrants' Rights Ordinance
(Chris McGann / Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

Jan 28: Desert Caution
(Thomas E. Ricks / Washington Post)

Jan 27: U.S. Scrutiny of Overseas Charitable Donations Lax
(R. Jeffrey Smith / Washington Post)

Jan 23: People and Politics: Hold off with the Laurel Leaves
(Akiva Eldar / Ha'aretz)

Jan 20: An Unacceptable Helplessness
(Edward Said / Al-Ahram)

Jan 16: Chicago Passes Anti-War Resolution

Jan 16: U.S. Suspends TV Ad Campaign Aimed at Winning Over Muslims
(Vanessa O'Connell / Wall Street Journal)

Jan 16: ACLU Fears Door Open to Big Brother
(Ellen Sorokin / Washington Times)

Jan 16: Use of Secret Evidence Rejected
(Dale Russakoff / Washington Post)

Jan 15: FBI Will Contact Iraqi Nationals Living in the U.S.
(Gary Fields and Marjorie Valbrun / Wall Street Journal)

Jan 15: Visa Restrictions Rejected
(Brian Vastag / Journal of the American Medical Association)

Jan 15: U.S. Deportations to Muslim Nations Soar:
(Mark Bixler / Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

Jan 14: Religion Must Lead the Charge in Questioning War
(Donald E. Miller / LA Times)

Jan 06: Coble, Myrick Face Heat for Comments
(Jim Morrill / Charlotte Observer)

Jan 05: Some Cry Foul Over Disparity in Immigration Registration
(Karen Branch-Brioso / Post-Dispatch)

Jan 03: A Brutal Routine
(Op-Ed / Washington Post)