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April 30, 2004

Letters to the Editor, April 30, 2004

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Quran By Omar Edaibat

Laser Guided Liberation in Fallujah By Mike Whitney

Bush Declares, Fallujans Aren't Iraqis By Sam Hamod 

Repeal Martial Law and Pull out the Troops By S.M. Mohamed Idris 

Betraying Daniel Pearl and 9/11 Victims, Sarah Whalen 

Big Muscles, Little Understanding, Arab News 

April 29, 2004

Help the Palestine Children's Welfare Fund to Help Palestinians By Genevieve Cora Fraser

Arafat's Assassination Imminent Analysis By the International Press Center

From Mazar-e-Sherif to Fallujah By Yamin Zakaria

In the US Growing Tolerance Deficit By Nasim Zehra

Seeking the Evil One By John Chuckman

Vanunu and the Double-standard Policy By Astrid Essed

April 28, 2004

Iraqi Sovereignty; More Lies from the Bush Claque By Mike Whitney

The American media and military are upside down in Fallujah By Sam Hamod

Al-Awda, the Palestinian Right to Return Coalition, Second International Convention, Final Communique

A Letter to Tony Blair: Your Middle East Policy is Doomed, Say 50 British Diplomats

An Open Letter to George W. Bush, Part 5: Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire By Jack Dalton

The New 'Iraqi' Flag and the 'Greater Middle East' By Hilmi Salem

Tales of a "Compassionate Conservative" By Don Speakman

Kashmir: How Deep Shall We Dig? By Arundhati Roy

April 27, 2004

Letters to the Editor, April 27, 2004

Flag Draped Coffins and the Seattle Times By Mike Whitney 

Palestinians Still Victims of Politics, Bigotry and Passivity By James J. Zogby

Is Mossad Threatening Americans on American soil - Again? By John Anast 

Bush's War on America By Sam Hamod

Martin to Bush By Bill Henderson

Bush's Pals at The Weekly Standard and Free Republic.com Are Panicking By Mark Dankof

State ReWorks Itself In Wana By Nasim Zehra

Ariel Sharon’s Bantustan Plan Doomed to Fail, Meron Benvenisti 

Sharon’s Threat, Arab News 

April 26, 2004

Bush Endorses Sharon Plan to Kill Arafat By Mike Whitney 

Brahimi Warns U.S. Against Attacking Fallujah and Najaf By Sam Hamod and William C. Mann

The Mad Dog By John Mikietyn 

Tami Silicio: The Gust Typhoon By Mumtaz Hamid Rao 

Palestine Balanced On the Shards of American-Israeli Rule By Genevieve Cora Fraser 

The Zionist Independence Day Is A Day Of Mourning And Fasting For Jews Untainted By Zionist Heresy Rabbi Meir Weberman 

Sami Hadawi 1904-2004: A Tribute By Gary Zatzman 

April 25, 2004

The Second Balfour Declaration By Mohamed Sid-Ahmed

I’ve Finally Made Up My Mind About Iraq, Brian Jones

Genocide Charges, Arab News

April 24, 2004

Letters to the Editor, April 24, 2004

A New Vision in the Face of Apartheid and a Road Map Leading to Nowhere By Omar Edaibat

International Response to the Bush Declaration on the Palestinian Right to Return, 187 Signatories

Apocalypse Please: Fundamentalists Drive US policy towards the Middle East By George Monbiot

Maybe, Joe Public Will Tell Bush That He Finally Understands Michael Saba 

UN Credibility Arab News

April 23, 2004

Letters to the Editor, April 23, 2004

Guilty of Looking Arab and Muslim in America By Mike Odetalla

Washington Stands Humbled in Iraq By Nasim Zehra

Is America a Servant to the Will of Israel By Genevieve Cora Fraser

History's Forgotten Braveheart By Mark Glenn

The Children Killed in Basra and Fallujah By Yamin Zakaria

ME Peace Hopes Recede Further, Hassan Tahsin 

US Relationship With the Islamic World, Hady Amr 

Vanunu Found Evidence of WMD but Nobody Is Hailing Him as a Hero, Mark Steel 

April 22, 2004

Letters to the Editor, April 22, 2004

“Waving Red Weapons” in Fallujah By Mike Whitney

Mission reforming Islam By Abid Ullah Jan

Bush Plays A Different Kind Of Pilot To Sharon's Plot By John Anast 

One Veteran's Outrage: Bush & Negroponte By: Jack Dalton 

John D. Negroponte, the Next US Ambassador to Iraq By Sister Laetitia Bordes, s.h. 

Kill the Arab Journalists: Is It the US Military Policy? By Ali Suleimani and Sam Hamod 

The case for regime change in the USA By Judah Ben-Hur 

The necessary ‘State’ By Nasim Zehra 

Ariel Sharon’s Skin and George Bush’s Spots, Uri Avnery 

Earth to Bush: Come In, Fawaz Turki 

April 21, 2004

Assassinating al-Rantisi: the Politics of Murder By Mike Whitney

America and Britain: Sharon's Banana Republics By Afif Safieh

History won't ignore Pentagon's role in Iraq By Linda S. Heard

Assassination of Dr. Abdul Aziz Al-Rantissi Will Spill More Blood in Palestine and Israel By S.M. Mohamed Idris

Why is the US government spending 5.6 million dollars to market democracy to Iraqis? By Gary Wexler

The “Hit Man” Is Back Dave By Jack Dalton

Misguided US Policy By Russ Stott

Get out of Iraq now By John Pilger

Is Washington making history or pushing another hoax? Rami G. Khouri

It is Time the UN Intervened in Iraq to Restore Order, Essa bin Mohammed Al-Zedjali

New Paradigm in Mideast, Arab

April 20, 2004

Letters to the Editor, April 20, 2004

A Letter to James W. Owens, Chairman and CEO of Caterpillar, Inc By  Craig and Cindy Corrie

Visions and Reality By James J. Zogby

What Bush Doesn't Understand About Why Honduras is Pulling Its Troops From Iraq By Sam Hamod

Bush, Kerry Fail Leadership Test On U.S. Middle East Policy Arab American Institute

Sharon Keeps His Avenging Sword Unsheathed, Linda S Heard

Assassination 'rooted in Zionist ideology' Hassan A. Barari

Escape from Iraq, Gwynne Dyer

April 19, 2004

Letters to the Editor, April 19, 2004

The Death of Al Rantissi and of American Moral Leadership By Sam Hamod

Bush Stashing WMD in Iraq By Mike Whitney

Sharon's disengagement-plan is a declaration of war on International Law By Astrid Essed

America Owes The Muslims Nothing By Yamin Zakaria

Fallouja And Others By Blagovesta Doncheva

A Replay of Israeli Tactics in Iraq, Muhammad Salahuddin 

Rantissi Killing Prompts Anger, Despair With Arab Leaders, Ranwa Yehia 

Rantissi’s Murder, Arab News 

9/11 Commission: A Giant ‘Snipe Hunt’? Michael Saba

April 18, 2004

Letters to the Editor, April 18, 2004

Bush or al-Sadr; who sounds more committed to Democracy? By Mike Whitney

What the UN Envoy, Lakhdar Brahimi Actually Said And Was Unreported By the Major U.S. Media By Sam Hamod

Mêlée in Iraq by Mumtaz Hamid Rao

Evil Does Often Triumph By John Chuckman

Japanese Hostages Are Free, Let's Not Forget Falluja By Arai Takayuki

The Madness of President George by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr 

Bush Support for Israel’s Plan is a Violation of UN Resolutions By S.M. Mohamed Idris

'Against all international laws and conventions' Musa Keilani 

American Contempt, Reem Mohammed Al-Faisal 

Crime and Punishment, Arab

April 17, 2004

George Bush and the Betrayal of Palestine by Mike Whitney

A Republican's Case Against George W. Bush By Paul Findley

9/11 Commission: A Giant ‘Snipe Hunt’? Michael Saba

My Father’s Commandments Tariq A. Al-Maeena

Endorsement for ANC Arab News

War on Terrorism Abdul Rahman Al-Rashid

By Backing Sharon’s Land Grab, Bush Has Humiliated Blair Jonathan Freedland

April 16, 2004

Letters to the Editor, April 16, 2004

Bush Finally Destroys the Middle East Peace Map By Sam Hamod

Disabled Vietnam Veteran, Jack Dalton, on Fallujah

Even the American Right is now in dissent by Mark Dankof

Something has to change By Bill Drebenstedt

April 15, 2004

Letters to the Editor, April 15, 2004

Bush Endorsement of Sharon's Gaza Pullout Plan: A New Balfour Declaration, A New Injustice Against the Palestinian People By Hassan El-Najjar

Condoleezza Rice: Obfuscation, Finger-pointing and Lies By Mike Whitney

Impeachment By Bill Henderson

How Kofi Annan Inflamed the Iraq Crisis by Backing the US Over Elections, Salim Lone

'Interested only in a second term' Michael Jansen

Sept. 11: Was Bush Asleep at the Switch? Volker Bargenda

A Republican as Kerry’s Running Mate? Richard H. Curtiss

Ten Years After Apartheid, South Africans Are Forging a New History, Nadine Gordimer

Punitive Expedition, Arab News

To make a difference, Jordan Times

April 14, 2004

Iraq, War on Terror Deeply Divide Americans, James J. Zogby

Concorde, Lexington, Fallujah and Najaf: Why folks fight, Rami G. Khouri

Time to Stand Up and Be Counted, Raid Qusti

Search for Peace, Arab News

April 13, 2004

Letters to the Editor, April 13, 2004

The Battle of Falluja By Mike Whitney

The US Adventures in the Muslim World By Abid Ullah Jan

Why Are We Still In Iraq Beyond All the Lies By Sam Hamod

Oil Peak: Americorp Imperialism and the Fate of the "New" World By Jordan Scott Warshavsky

The War, The Draft, Your Future By Ralph Nader

Crucial Warnings, Arab News

How Could They Be So Ungrateful? Linda S. Heard

Men, Women and Change, Abeer Mishkhas

April 12, 2004

10 Letters to the Editor, April 12, 2004

The Siege of Falluja By Mike Whitney

‘Shaikh’ Paul Bremer - Between Democracy and Islam By Yamin Zakaria

All fall down: Probing Israel’s part in the war on Iraq By Ed Blanche

The Crucifixion of the Palestinian People: Part 1, Who Kills the Human Bombers? By Charles E. Carlson 

An Urgent Statement By 133 Japanese Intellectuals About the Three Japanese Abducted in Iraq

Ozymandias Revisited By Percy Bysshe Shelley

What Is Behind the Gaza Pullout? Hassan Tahsin 

Hostage-Taking, Arab News 

Bitter Rice or the March of Folly 2, Uri Avnery 

April 11, 2004

Letters to the Editor, April 10, 2004

“America, Out of Iraq!” by Mike Whitney

Saddam by any other name… by John Anast

I Told You So: Bush Opened Pandora's Box and the Tiger Came out, Sam Hamod

Is Israel Anti-Christian?  By Genevieve Cora Fraser 

State Terrorists and Islamic Moderates – Natural Allies By Yamin Zakaria

The Terrorists Within By Abid Ullah Jan

Reflections on the Present Situation in Iraq By Astrid Essed

The Paradox of Pakistan –US Relations By Nasim Zehra

'Washington has already lost Iraq' Musa Keilani 

Drawing the red lines, Walid M. Sadi 

Violence in Iraq, reforms in the Arab world make headlines in the Arab media, Thamer Abu Baker 

Bouteflika’s Re-Election Romp Stuns Everyone, Gina Doggett

Pak-China Relations, Ershad Mahmud

Bush administration's message to Sharon, Daoud Kuttab

An Explosive Revival of the Middle East’s Imperial Legacy, Seumas Milne

Long-Overdue Cease-Fire, Arab News

Luring Israel into the European Union, Jonathan Power

Peaceful Iraq Grows More and More Elusive by the Day, Rory McCarthy

Redress sought, Jordan Times

Triggermen Add to the Viciousness of Iraq War, Sarah Whalen

The missing mea culpa, Jordan Times 

Elementary Mistakes, Arab News

April 10, 2004

Iraq Shows the Limits of Raw Military Power, Martin Woollacott 

Conde Rice Betrayed and Betrays America By Sam Hamod

The Century of Renaissance By Nasim Zehra

What Bush Should Tell Sharon By M.J. Rosenberg

Time for Vision, Not Vengeance, Abdul Rahman Al-Rashid 

The Paradox of Pakistan-US Relations, Nasim Zehra 

Saudi Bashing Is in Fashion Media, Michael Saba 

Mandate for Bouteflika, Arab News 

April 9, 2004

“America, Out of Iraq!” by Mike Whitney

An Explosive Revival of the Middle East’s Imperial Legacy, Seumas Milne

I Told You So: Bush Opened Pandora's Box and the Tiger Came out, Sam Hamod

Pak-China Relations, Ershad Mahmud

Bush administration's message to Sharon, Daoud Kuttab

Long-Overdue Cease-Fire, Arab News

Luring Israel into the European Union, Jonathan Power

Peaceful Iraq Grows More and More Elusive by the Day, Rory McCarthy

Redress sought, Jordan Times

Saddam by any other name… by John Anast

Triggermen Add to the Viciousness of Iraq War, Sarah Whalen

April 8, 2004

Israeli refusers: 'prophets in the wilderness?' Rima Merriman

Reality Is Staring Us in the Face, Mohammad T. Al-Rasheed

Exploiting West’s Guilt Over Rwanda’s Genocide, Declan Walsh

In Deep Trouble, Arab News

The way Iraq goes, Jordan Times

April 7, 2004

The war on terror: incompetence on an award-winning scale? Rami G. Khouri

Where the Greater Middle East Plan Went Awry, Maggie Mitchell Salem

A jilted lover is wooed again by America, Rob Asghar

April 6, 2004

Maqtada al-Sadr and Arab Nationalism by Mike Whitney

SHARON'S VICTORY? by James J. Zogby

‘Shaikh’ Paul Bremer - Between Democracy and Islam, by Yamin Zakaria

The Day the Thieves Came for Beit-Hanina, by Mike Odetalla

The fate awaiting the UK, Alasdair Soussi

Arab Disunity Is the Enemies’ Strongest Weapon, Essa bin Mohammed Al-Zedjali

The Hijacking of the ‘War on Terror’ Linda S. Heard

Peace Bid May Prove to Be Tough Test for New Lanka Govt, Lindsay Beck

Pursuing the course, Hassan A. Barari

Rwanda: Too Soon for Reconciliation, Rory Carroll

Breaking Away From the Herd, Abeer Mishkhas

Peace Must Prevail, Arab News

April 5, 2004

Letters to the Editor, April 5, 2004

Fallujah and the Question of Moral Clarity By Mike Whitney

Weapons of Muslims' Destruction By Abid Ullah Jan

But Fear Itself By Bill Henderson

Thought Control for Middle East Studies By Joel Beinin

Sharon, Bush Endanger Israelis and Americans, By Matthew Rothschild

Isn’t it Time for an Israel Accountability Act? By Eugene Bird 

The Things Neocons Didn’t Know About Iraq, Richard H. Curtiss 

An iron wall, Paul Tate 

What Ails Britain’s Muslim Community? Fareeda Alam 

Is Spain’s Nightmare Only Just Beginning? Joerg Vogelsaenger 

The Geneva document — the salvation of the two nations? Mohammad Daraghmeh 

Politics of Assassination, Arab News 

Facing up, Jordan Times 

April 4, 2004

Letters to the Editor, April 4, 2004

Through the Eyes of a Muslim By Mark Glenn

Fallujah: More Gas on the Fire By Mike Whitney

Why we must all follow Washington By Amir Butler

Israeli Troops Destroy Milk and Honey in Palestine, the Holy Land By Genevieve Cora Fraser

Ralph Nader Speaks Out on Iraq and Palestine

Indian Muslims Should Devise New Political Strategies By Ghulam Muhammed

Is The U.S. Planting WMD's By Jack Dalton

The Evangelical-Israeli Connection By Bill Broadway

Zionism and anti-Semitism By Arnaud de Borchgrave 

'Understanding Sharon's game plan' Musa Keilani 

Recent laws to integrate European Muslims damaging, Alaa Bayoumi 

A Level of Alienation That Bodes Ill for British Society, Massoud Shadjareh 

Reconsidering policy, Walid M. Sadi 

Suspension of Arab summit draws Arab media attention, Thamer Abu Baker 

The First 'Normal' Election in Nearly 40 Years, M.J. Akbar

April 3, 2004

Aid No More By Tariq A. Al-Maeena

Asleep at the Wheel and Not Minding the Store By Michael Saba

The US Is Creating Its Own Gaza By Jonathan Steele

April 2, 2004

Rice and the Sept. 11 Inquiry: A Failure of Intelligence? By Sarah Whalen

Time to shed the old mantle By George S. Hishmeh

Europe, America and Mideast peace By Ahmad Y. Majdoubeh

Iraq War Not Responsible for Qaddafi’s U-Turn By William Fisher

Mideast: Europe Should Not Shrug Off Its Historical Burden By Jonathan Power

April 1, 2004

Letters to the Editor, April 1, 2004

Land of the Free? By Steven C. Clemons

Lisa Martin's multilateralism paper By Bill Henderson

New tactics create chaos for Israelis By Phil Hong

Reflections on the Land Day by Nizar Sakhnini

Something Evil This Way…Oh No, It's Here! By Jack Dalton

Where's The Freedom, Mr. President? By Joyhn Grelley

 

 
Earth, a planet hungry for peace

 

The Israeli apartheid (security) wall around Palestinian population centers (Ran Cohen, pmc, 5/24/03).

 

The Israeli apartheid (security) wall around Palestinian population centers in the West Bank, like a Python. (Alquds,10/25/03).

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