Al-Ahram Weekly | Invasion

Palestinians say it was massacre. Israelis say it was combat. The world does not know; it is not being allowed to. Graham Usher reports from outside Jenin refugee camp

Tales of Jenin
After ten days of the most ferocious fighting of this Intifada, hundreds of Palestinian refugees were homeless once more. Jonathan Cook reports from Jenin

Hospital ringed by guns
Not even Ramallah's medical compound, which is sheltering journalists and injured Palestinians, could escape Israeli atrocities, writes Michael Jansen from the occupied city

Murders and lies
A Gestapo-like Israeli army continues its atrocities designed to terrorise Palestinians in the West Bank. Khaled Amayreh reports from Jerusalem

The 'engineer'
An engineer of the fiercest battle waged by the Palestinians during the invasion of the West Bank spoke to Jonathan Cook about the days of defiance in Jenin

Apocalypse now
Sean Connor Riordan, a graduate student in the department of Arabic Studies at the American University in Cairo, was in Bethlehem when the Israeli army began its barbarous invasion of the holy city. He recounts his experience

What lies beneath
Whose are the charred and shattered bodies? What lies beneath the rubble of Jenin refugee camp, the Warsaw ghetto of the West Bank? Birzeit University's Rita Giacaman and Penny Johnson provide a brief statistical profile of the devastated camp

Will they? Won't they?
A possible US attack against Iraq is being supported by the British, the Israelis, and almost no one else. Dina Ezzat talks to Iraq's foreign minister

Right to report
The Arab Journalists' Union condemned Israel's latest aggression and re-occupation of nearly the entire West Bank, reports Khaled Dawoud

'It's what I have to do'
Lyndon Larouche, a lone voice in the desert of American thinking on the Middle East, chats to Mohamed Hakki in Washington

Britain's disquiet
Anger grows in the British political establishment as the sad truth about Israeli atrocities in the West Bank becomes clearer, writes Gamal Nkrumah

Israel's enemy number one

Israel's arrest of Marwan Barghouti, a former advocate of peace and and later the driving force behind the current Palestinian Intifada, has sent shock waves through the Palestinian community and the world. Sherine Bahaa has followed his rise to prominence since his political debut in the 1996 Palestinian National elections. She talks to his wife about the circumstances of his arrest; also re-printed is an earlier interview she conducted with Barghouti himself, where he discusses the aims and effects of the uprising

Wagging the dog
With US Secretary of State Powell in the region, America's Middle East policy is the site of contention at home, Anayat Durrani reports from Washington

Impasse
An emasculated European Union collapsed on the sidelines last week, alongside the Arab states, the UN and Russia, as the Israeli invasion of the West Bank entered its third consecutive week. Iason Athanasiadis reports on the diplomatic gridlock

Bahgory on Arafat

I have perused every image of Yasser Arafat to emerge from this terrible siege, and each of his features is engraved in my mind. At times his face seems to be collapsing in grief and despair; at others, the strength of his will lends it a firmness reminiscent of his young days as a freedom fighter.. --read on--

Resistance within limits
With the Shebaa front on the Lebanese-Israeli border active again and the ongoing violence in the occupied territories, tension is growing in south Lebanon. Zeina Abu Rizk reports from Beirut

Voices from the siege

The same message echoes over and over: please help us. There have been many massacres, and it has sometimes been possible to say we did not know what atrocities were being committed until it was too late. This time, voices have been ringing out, with increasing desperation: please, do something. The massacres continue. On the Internet and in the print press, the testimonies circulate. The story is one of phenomenal devastation. At Al-Ahram Weekly, we feel it is our responsibility to provide these voices with a platform -- so it will not be possible to say we did not know

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		Al-Ahram Weekly Online 18 - 24 April 2002 Issue No.582
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'How deep is all this blood' Palestinians say it was massacre. Israelis say it was combat. The world does not know; it is not being allowed to. Graham Usher reports from outside Jenin refugee camp	Tales of Jenin After ten days of the most ferocious fighting of this Intifada, hundreds of Palestinian refugees were homeless once more. Jonathan Cook reports from Jenin Hospital ringed by guns Not even Ramallah's medical compound, which is sheltering journalists and injured Palestinians, could escape Israeli atrocities, writes Michael Jansen from the occupied city Murders and lies A Gestapo-like Israeli army continues its atrocities designed to terrorise Palestinians in the West Bank. Khaled Amayreh reports from Jerusalem The 'engineer' An engineer of the fiercest battle waged by the Palestinians during the invasion of the West Bank spoke to Jonathan Cook about the days of defiance in Jenin Apocalypse now Sean Connor Riordan, a graduate student in the department of Arabic Studies at the American University in Cairo, was in Bethlehem when the Israeli army began its barbarous invasion of the holy city. He recounts his experience What lies beneath Whose are the charred and shattered bodies? What lies beneath the rubble of Jenin refugee camp, the Warsaw ghetto of the West Bank? Birzeit University's Rita Giacaman and Penny Johnson provide a brief statistical profile of the devastated camp Will they? Won't they? A possible US attack against Iraq is being supported by the British, the Israelis, and almost no one else. Dina Ezzat talks to Iraq's foreign minister Right to report The Arab Journalists' Union condemned Israel's latest aggression and re-occupation of nearly the entire West Bank, reports Khaled Dawoud 'It's what I have to do' Lyndon Larouche, a lone voice in the desert of American thinking on the Middle East, chats to Mohamed Hakki in Washington Britain's disquiet Anger grows in the British political establishment as the sad truth about Israeli atrocities in the West Bank becomes clearer, writes Gamal Nkrumah
Israel's enemy number one Israel's arrest of Marwan Barghouti, a former advocate of peace and and later the driving force behind the current Palestinian Intifada, has sent shock waves through the Palestinian community and the world. Sherine Bahaa has followed his rise to prominence since his political debut in the 1996 Palestinian National elections. She talks to his wife about the circumstances of his arrest; also re-printed is an earlier interview she conducted with Barghouti himself, where he discusses the aims and effects of the uprising
Wagging the dog With US Secretary of State Powell in the region, America's Middle East policy is the site of contention at home, Anayat Durrani reports from Washington
Impasse An emasculated European Union collapsed on the sidelines last week, alongside the Arab states, the UN and Russia, as the Israeli invasion of the West Bank entered its third consecutive week. Iason Athanasiadis reports on the diplomatic gridlock
Bahgory on Arafat I have perused every image of Yasser Arafat to emerge from this terrible siege, and each of his features is engraved in my mind. At times his face seems to be collapsing in grief and despair; at others, the strength of his will lends it a firmness reminiscent of his young days as a freedom fighter.. --read on--
Resistance within limits With the Shebaa front on the Lebanese-Israeli border active again and the ongoing violence in the occupied territories, tension is growing in south Lebanon. Zeina Abu Rizk reports from Beirut
Voices from the siege The same message echoes over and over: please help us. There have been many massacres, and it has sometimes been possible to say we did not know what atrocities were being committed until it was too late. This time, voices have been ringing out, with increasing desperation: please, do something. The massacres continue. On the Internet and in the print press, the testimonies circulate. The story is one of phenomenal devastation. At Al-Ahram Weekly, we feel it is our responsibility to provide these voices with a platform -- so it will not be possible to say we did not know
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