Issue No. 807
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A difficult road ahead
It will be a tough mission ensuring that a UN Security Council resolution meets Lebanese concerns, Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa tells Dina Ezzat from New York  Will never surrender Help is blocked from reaching those who most need it, but the Lebanese endure and resist, writes Serene Assir from Beirut Quandary in the Council
The UN Security Council is unlikely to produce a resolution capable of assuaging Lebanese and Arab concerns, writes Ayman El-Amir  The best you could do?
What did Arab foreign ministers really achieve in the Lebanese capital Monday? Dina Ezzat in Beirut searches for answers They cannot occupy
So far, Israel is failing militarily in Lebanon, writes Major General Mohamed Ali Belal No deal imminent
Despite reports of a looming Egyptian-mediated prisoner swap deal, negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians have yet to reach a breakthrough, Khaled Amayreh reports  Preempting aggression
Lebanon hopes that deploying its troops in the south will put the onus on Israel and the international community to offer an end to the month-long Israeli destruction, writes Omayma Abdel-Latif Resounding failure
No matter how the current war in the Middle East unfolds, Arab despots are believed to be the big losers, Sherine Bahaa reports Diplomacy under duress
The semantics of international diplomacy have been manipulated to shield the prospect of prolonged warfare in Lebanon, writes Firas Al-Atraqchi  Plain genocide
Seven weeks into Israel's offensive on Gaza finds the civilian population desperate, isolated, and defenceless before Israeli massacres, Erica Silverman reports Receding hope
While the Iraqi parliament goes into recess, the Iraqi people's suffering sees no let-up, writes Nermeen Al-Mufti Acting for Lebanon
Angered by a month-long savage Israeli bombing of Lebanon, an Egyptian delegation headed to Beirut Tuesday to express solidarity, Gamal Essam El-Din reports  People's Assembly still toothless
Despite a glowing official report on the performance of the new parliament it remains, say many, little more than a rubber stamp, writes Gamal Essam El-Din Committed to peace
Al-Gamaa Al-Islamiya's leadership denies that it has joined ranks with Al-Qaeda and has restated its continued commitment to a nine-year-old ceasefire initiative, writes Jailan Halawi |
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GATHERING RESISTANCE: An armed Palestinian militant jumps over the rubble of a destroyed house in Ein Al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp near the Lebanese port city of Sidon...  Self-fulfilling prophecy
By Azmi Bishara
 Remembering Hosni Guindi
By Lobna Abdel-Aziz
Memories of a revolution
Having turned 70, Galal Amin understands his father's equivocal reception of the events of 1952 A state like no other
Hizbullah has given pride to the Arab world, as has Lebanese society as a whole, writes Hassan Nafaa Shia Arabist affiliations
Regardless of differences in doctrine and political tenor, what unites Sunni and Shia is more important than what divides them, writes Ammar Ali Hassan Sad reflections on Jewish morality
A chorus of apologists among Jewish intellectuals matches Israel's erasure of all distinctions between humanity and barbarism in war, writes Haim Bresheeth Israel and total war
International law is rendered irrelevant as Israel, in Lebanon now as well as Gaza, targets whole populations for slow yet purposive extermination, writes Felicity Arbuthnot |
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