A staring contest
The Arab-Israeli conflict is no longer about the Palestinian state; it now concerns the terms of its creation. Azmi Bishara urges the Palestinians not to blink first

Jerusalem.. Israel's capital?
Has the Bush administration decided to take the recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital one step further? asks Mohamed Sid-Ahmed

Islam, Palestine and the world order
If Muslims are to play a positive and significant role in the world today, the concrete problems of Muslim societies should be addressed, writes George Giacaman

Selling anti-Semitism
The "new anti-Semitism", whether real or imagined, is the only sales pitch Israel has that still works, writes Jonathan Cook

A laboratory for peace
The world cannot afford a rogue state that behaves like an empire, or an empire that acts like a rogue state, writes Marwan Bishara

The right to pressure
The Bush administration's intervention in the case of Egyptian democracy activist Saadeddin Ibrahim has been condemned as hypocritical and politically motivated. Neil Hicks offers a counter argument

Editorial:
Killing with impunity

Close up
Winds of change
By Salama A Salama

Soapbox
Drawing the line
By Medhat El-Zahed

A city with a past
By Naguib Mahfouz

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