Al-Ahram Weekly

Israel's Lebanese factor
Israel's latest stand-off with Hizbullah may generate some new thinking in Israel about south Lebanon. But it is unlikely to change Binyamin Netanyahu's desire to keep hold of the Golan Heights. Graham Usher writes

Student power to the rescue
Lebanese students shocked their government and the world when they liberated with their bare hands, the Lebanese flag and national songs, the occupied village of Arnoun. Zeina Khodr reports from south Lebanon

Israeli quagmire
IN WHAT was described as the bloodiest ambush in months, a resistance attack by Hizbullah on Sunday killed four Israelis, including an army general; it was the third blow Israel suffered in south Lebanon in less than a week. --read on--

Khatami strikes again With the reformists' sweeping win in the first local council elections ever held in Islamic Iran, President Mohamed Khatami scored his greatest victory yet over the conservatives, writes Safa Haeri
Breakthrough -- yet again? Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi this week announced that a compromise had been reached in the Lockerbie dispute. But the US and Britain remain sceptical. Rasha Saad reports	Exit the PKK, enter the Kurdish problem Turkey might suffer international isolation as it escalates attacks on its European allies and continues its crackdown on members of the Kurdish minority, Gareth Jenkins writes from Istanbul
Iraqi tour bears little fruit Iraq's foreign minister has reportedly returned to Baghdad empty-handed after a tour of 10 Arab countries, writes Al-Ahram Weekly's special correspondent on Iraqi affairs
Hamas leader remains defiant Hamas leader Khaled Misha'al has been living under tight security since he narrowly escaped an Israeli assassination attempt in 1997. He told Khaled Dawoud that Hamas' resistance against Israeli occupation will continue	A Jewish state? Right-wing Israeli groups have been trying to exclude the prominent Arab MP, Azmi Bishara, from running in the coming Israeli elections after his call for an egalitarian Israeli state. Khaled Amayreh reports from Jerusalem
Making up in Amman Jordanian officials said Netanyahu's visit to Amman had cleared up the misunderstanding following the right-wing Israeli premier's suggestion that Amman could renew its 1991 alliance with Baghdad, reports Lola Keilani



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		Al-Ahram Weekly 4 - 10 March 1999 Issue No. 419
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