Al-Ahram Weekly   Al-Ahram Weekly
10 - 16 August 2000
Issue No. 494
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The Russians are coming
How Jewish is the Jewish State? Roger Owen comments
A time to judge
Nabil Abdel-Fattah plots the emergence of the judiciary as key players in the electoral process
The ball is in our court
Mohamed Sid-Ahmed believes the Arab parties assume a basic responsibility in overcoming the present impasse in the Palestinian track
Let them eat keyboards
The gap between rich and poor is growing wider. Gamil Mattar examines the precarious status of the world's leaders
Close up
By Salama Ahmed Salama
A two-way road

I was not particularly surprised when I read in the papers that quat, the drug widely used in Yemen, Somalia and across the Horn of Africa, has finally reached the United States. --read on--
Editorial
The cuckoo has landed

According to Rabbi Ovadia Yosef Palestinians are "snakes, accursed, wicked ones, Ishmaelites [Arabs] whom the Holy One is sorry he created." And Jews who perished at the hands of the Nazis, the rabbi continued, were being punished because they were reincarnations of sinners from previous generations. --read on--

Naguib Mahfouz
The purely vindictive
There is no longer any possible justification for prolonging the embargo imposed against Iraq. --read on--



This week:
Peres

Soapbox
Out of Eden
By Medhat El-Zahed

 
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