Al-Ahram Weekly Online   11 - 17 October 2007
Issue No. 866
Region
 
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875

Treachery for treatment
Saleh Al-Naami reports from Gaza on how Israeli security conditions the health of sick Palestinians on their becoming informants
A third Intifada
Palestinian-Israeli negotiations which began in secret on Monday are no more than a prelude to the collapse of the November peace summit, writes Saleh Al-Naami
Still heading backwards
Corruption and partition are the headlines in another dismal week in occupied Iraq, writes Nermeen Al-Mufti
Why Burma is not Iraq
While Western leaders pay lip service to democracy in Burma, they won't intervene. Perhaps it's just as well, writes Ramzy Baroud
Weak expectations
The clock is ticking in the search for a Lebanese president, Lucy Fielder reports from Beirut

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