Al-Ahram Weekly Online   26 July - 1 August 2007
Issue No. 855
Region
 
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875

Secular Turkey trounced
A landslide victory for Turkey's main Islamist party may move national debate away from secularist fears, writes Gareth Jenkins
Resistance on the rise
Over 5,000 attacks are being staged monthly on US forces as the Bush "surge" continues to try to forcibly pacify Iraq, writes Nermeen Al-Mufti
Mission impossible
The new peace envoy suits Israel and nobody else, reports Khaled Amayreh
Abbas's gamble
The Palestinian president wants to push ahead with fresh elections, but it's unlikely to happen. Khaled Amayreh writes from Hebron
Licence to kill
Samson is the latest incarnation of Israel's policy of murdering Palestinians, relates Saleh Al-Naami
Commentary: Bush's real agenda in Palestine
While Bush may be calling for peace conferences, the US policy of unequivocal bias towards Israel and attacking all that defend Arab and Palestinian rights is as firm as ever, writes Ramzy Baroud
Anthology of bigotry
The Israeli state is trying desperately to foreclose all exceptions to its unequivocally racist land laws, writes Jonathan Cook in Nazareth
Bloodied but unbowed
A year after Israel's war to destroy Hizbullah, resistance to US policy in the region is even stronger, Lucy Fielder reports

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