Peace requires a partner
The peace initiative adopted by the Beirut Arab Summit provides the only framework for viable negotiations, argues Ibrahim Nafie

What Israel has done
Can Israel be a state like all others? That is the true question of its existence, writes Edward Said

Politics before security
The time has come for a state-to-state relationship to replace the state-to-organisation relationship that now exists between Israelis and Palestinians, writes Mohamed Sid-Ahmed

Resistance is not enough
What has gone wrong? Abdel-Jawad Saleh tallies the victims

Speed reading
A prominent British journalist attacks the Weekly for publishing an "anti-semitic" interview. Frederick Bowie responds to the charge

Palestine as phoenix
From Abu Jihad to Marwan Barghouthi, from one Intifada to the next, there is no shortage of Palestinians to take up the struggle, writes Lamis Andoni

'In Jenin I founded...'
The story of a massacre, Palestine's Stalingrad: Uri Avnery comments

The final blow
Palestine's time has come, writes Mustafa Barghouthi: the occupation must end

When a planet goes to war
The super-powered, multi-phased campaign that extends from Afghanistan to Palestine is just the other face of globalisation, argues Ahmed Sidqi Al-Dajani

Alternatives to a life worse than death
The Palestinians should leap through this window of opportunity and apply for UN membership now, writes John Whitbeck

Editorial:
Why was he here?

Reflections
Back to basics
By Hani Shukrallah

Close up
Shuffling backwards
By Salama Ahmed Salama

Soapbox:
Giving in to blackmail
By Magdi Mehanna

Naguib Mahfouz
Chivalry and honour

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