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7 - 13 May, 1998
Issue No.376
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Celebrations Day The dove that wouldn't fly
Once again the neo-Zionists were able to capture the high ground, writes Graham Usher, as left-wing opposition fell flat at Israel's real 50th anniversary party -- at Har Homa

Explosive Amman
A series of carefully-planned and targeted bomb attacks in and around the Jordanian capital would seem to have been mounted in protest at King Hussein's policy towards Israel. Al-Ahram Weekly's special corespondent in Amman reports

Cool reception in Cairo
A small number of Egyptians turned up at an Israeli Embassy reception celebrating Israel's 50th anniversary, but high-level officials and the founders of the Cairo Peace Movement were conspicuously absent. Omayma Abdel-Latif reports