Human shields, inhuman soldiers
"The worst moral deterioration in the history of Israel". Mustafa Barghouti catalogues Israeli tactics in August

The Kagan thesis (3)
Beyond Fukuyama and Huntington?
In this third and final instalment, Mohamed Sid-Ahmed compares Robert Kagan's conceptualisation of present-day international relations to other schools of thought dealing with the same subject

The prisoner as message
America's stand in the Ibrahim case may be hypocritical, writes Bahey El-Din Hassan, but that does not mean they are not serious

Restoring a vision of hope
The voice of the peace camp has been silenced for too long. Gershon Baskin , in a speech in Jerusalem last week, renews the appeal for Israeli-Palestinian co-existence. Below is the text of the speech

One planet, two worlds
Until we can hold governments and corporations to account for their actions we can only stand back as they make the world uninhabitable, writes Mona Makram-Ebeid

Imposing the writ
The war on terror has locked Islam's relations with the West into a dialectic of resistance to occupation and oppression, writes Faisal Bodi

Editorial
Poisoned rhetoric

Close up
First impressions
By Salama A Salama

Soapbox
More than a politician
By Midhat El-Zahed

Coded messages
By Naguib Mahfouz

This week: Donald Rumsfeld