Al-Ahram Weekly Online   1 - 6 January 2009
Issue No. 928
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Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875

Raining death
Saleh Al-Naami reports from Gaza on the carnage wreaked by five days of Israel's bloody aerial assault
Is the world watching?
Without justification, Israel kills, writes Saleh Al-Naami
Palestine's Guernica
Mustafa Barghouti cuts down the myths Israel spins in the media to justify its most recent campaign of slaughter
'Stop the war'
President Mubarak strongly condemns the Israeli aggression against Gaza and reiterates Egypt's full backing for the Palestinian cause
Fiddling while Gaza burns
What does it take to unite against the invasion, asks Khaled Amayreh in Ramallah
Spoiling for a fight
Hamas provoked Israel and received the response it wished for, argues Emad Gad
Damned if it does or doesn't
Egypt is prioritising an immediate ceasefire in Gaza while struggling, still, with the issue of the Rafah crossing, Dina Ezzat reports
Criminals vs cowards
The current uproar in Arab streets might not be of any direct help to Gazans but it draws battle lines between the masses and their regimes, notes Sherine Bahaa
Again on alert
With Israel launching a brutal attack against Gaza, fear in Lebanon has mounted that a military confrontation will be triggered along the country's southern border, Raed Rafei reports

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