(Mis)managing the conflict
Despite the US's renewed "deep involvement" in Middle East peace, there remains no clear vision within the Bush Administration on how to solve the conflict, writes Thomas Gorguissian from Washington

'To break the mirror'
Israeli historian Ilan Pappe faces expulsion from Haifa University for supporting Palestinian rights, Hala Sakr reports

'A sense of achievement'
A year after taking office as Arab League secretary-general, Amr Moussa says that his sense of achievement is incomplete Dina Ezzat revisits 12 months of work

Dutch NGOs take government to court
Twenty NGOs in the Netherlands are trying to convince their government to stop exporting weapons to Israel. After pressure failed they are now taking their case to the courts, Judit Neurink reports from Amsterdam

Carnage on hold
Israel decided to "suspend" what last week appeared to be an imminent large-scale incursion into the Gaza Strip

Arafat: free but increasingly isolated
Likud's decision to reject Palestinian statehood coincided with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's attempts to reassert his failing authority. Khaled Amayreh reports from occupied Jerusalem

From siege to exile
Yasser Arafat's "deals" to end the Israeli siege of the Church of the Nativity, as well as his own captivity, has brought his approval rating among Palestinians plunging. Michael Jansen reports from Bethlehem

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