Al-Ahram Weekly Online   20 - 26 July 2006
Issue No. 804
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The wrath to come
In ambition and miscalculation, Israel's latest Lebanese adventure looks ominously similar to 1982, writes Graham Usher
The end is not yet
Lucy Fielder, in Beirut, finds that there seems to be no way out yet after a week that changed the world for the Lebanese
Beirut burns
Israel has put the clock back several decades in Lebanon. And it only took seven days, Lucy Fielder reports
Together we stand
Amid the unfolding catastrophe, Serene Assir sees tensions and opportunities
Never wrong
Portrayed as the world's eternal victim, Israel in the eyes of the Americans is unquestioned, even when it is bombing civilians, writes Emad Mekay, in New York
The resistance will go on
A new Middle East order is in the making with Islamist resistance movements appearing as key shaping forces. Will this continue? Omayma Abdel-Latif seeks answers
A turning point
In Sunni Egypt a Shia leader has won the support and admiration of many. Amira Howeidy on the Egyptian passion for Hizbullah's Hassan Nasrallah
Solidarity calling
Egyptians took to the streets to protest the Israeli aggression against Lebanon, reports Mohamed El-Sayed
The Israel we know
Israel's bombing of Lebanon has roused international attention while Palestinians see in televised images scenes from their everyday lives, writes Khaled Amayreh in the West Bank
Not forthcoming
Arab countries are no longer interested in issuing a strong condemnation of Israeli aggression, writes Dina Ezzat
Cairo draws the line
Egypt dotted the I's and crossed the T's on how far it is willing to support Hamas and Hizbullah
Resist at your peril
Humanitarian groups the world over are decrying Israel's punitive strikes on the hapless civilian population of Lebanon rather more firmly than governments, writes Gamal Nkrumah
Seizing the advantage
Despite unkind accusations, Iran is seeking to make international and regional capital out of the Lebanese-Hizbullah-Israeli crisis, writes Rasha Saad
Citizen journalism
When the mainstream media fails to tell the truth, ordinary people must step in, writes Ramzy Baroud
Lebanon, Palestine

UNITY UNDER SIEGE: Images of Beirut and Gaza grow eerily similar as the Lebanese and Palestinians face the most brutal rampage their lands have suffered in recent memory...
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Blackmail by bombs
By Azmi Bishara
Memory for Forgetfulness
by Mahmoud Darwish

 

Maryam comes
By Saadi Youssef

 

Washington must act
US must act to stop Middle East escalation, argues James Zogby
Reworking the equations
Israel calculated that the conditions were ripe, including the tacit ascent of Arab governments, to take down Hizbullah. So far, it appears vindicated, writes Emad Gad
A hornet's nest
By Amr Elchoubaki
Creative chaos, divine right
Caught between policies that deliberately destabilise, and a world willing to condone any level of Israeli violence, the region teeters on the brink, writes Galal Nassar
The dividends of peace
By Salama A Salama


Hassan Nasrallah by Bahgory

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