Washington Report: Other Voices

Grasp the Arab olive branch, energize US diplomacy
By Philip C. Wilcox Jr.
There is tragic irony in the fact that Israelis and Palestinians are caught up in a massive new surge of violence only days after the Arab League, in a historic gesture, offered peace and normal relations with Israel in return for Israel's withdrawal from the occupied territories.

Author compares Palestinian city to Nazi death camp
Portuguese author José Saramago, a Nobel laureate, set off a storm in Israel on Tuesday after he compared a Palestinian city blockaded by the Israeli army to the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz.

Bush & Cheney Are Misinformed
Memo To: Karl Rove, President’s political counselor
From: Jude Wanniski
Re: Saddam Did Not Gas the Kurds

Gaza Panorama
Yes, on Thursday a four-year-old girl became one of the latest recipients of Israel's "restraint" policy

The algebra of infinite justice
As the US prepares to wage a new kind of war, Arundhati Roy challenges the instinct for vengance
Arundhati Roy

Revealed: British plan for Afghan onslaught
BRITISH troops will lead an international coalition alongside America to wage war on Afghanistan in the next 10 days as security and intelligence sources indicated last night that the net was tightening on Osama bin Laden writes the Observer...

The Middle East: how the peace was lost
ISRAEL VERSUS PALESTINE VERSUS THE WORLD

Letter From Israel:
The Ideology of Occupation...

Letter From Nablus:
Palestinians sympathize with America’s losses and fear they will become targets for retaliation...

Hatred in Israel offers hope of peace
In the Middle East, Israel is seen by Arabs and Muslims as being both the playground bully and teacher's pet. No matter how often Israel has kicked sand in the eyes of the Palestinian weaklings, the strongest response from America has been an indulgent frown, a sigh or a despairing tut-tut...

Islam and the West are inadequate banners
The United States may too often have failed to look outside but it is depressing how little time is spent trying to understand America...

Propaganda and war
The first step is to restore the Palestinians' history and humanity, writes

Seek justice, not war
No progress in a 'war' against international terrorism is possible without stopping the Israeli settler movement and one of its consequences, more than a million people living in refugee camps: it is as simple as that...

The impossible peace
'Bombing the hell out of Afghanistan', as recommended by Senator Zell Miller of Georgia, may or may not have been rejected. To the degree that the American assaults are indiscriminate, American vengeance will fuse with fundamentalist paranoia and generate terrorist recruits. But even less unjust wars will likely blow back on us...