A hawk in flight
Against the backdrop of US efforts to resume peace talks, Sharon has been aggressing Palestinians on all fronts, writes Khaled Amayreh from Jerusalem

You'll never walk alone
Peace activists from Europe and the United States have been staging solidarity demonstrations in Bethlehem and Jerusalem to tell Palestinians they are not alone in facing Israeli occupation. Michael Jansen accompanied the activists

A spineless partner
When Sharon declared Arafat and his Palestinian Authority "irrelevant" last week, the Israeli leader could just as easily have been referring to his main coalition partner -- Peres and his now increasingly confused and dissolute Labour party. Jonathan Cook, in Nazareth, writes

Better late than never
The latest Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) summit in Muscat might have marked a new start for the 22-year-old Arab gathering of oil-rich states, writes Sherine Bahaa

Fenced in
Aftermath

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