Arafat and resisting by illness

 

November 1, 2004

 

The Palestinians - most Palestinians - have not loved a leader as much as President Yasir Arafat. The Palestinians - most Palestinians - have not differed with a leader, or over a leader, as much as they have differed with him. However, we are almost certain that all of them are praying for his recovery from the unexpected ailment that struck him and made it necessary to move him promptly to a hospital in Paris for treatment.

 

 

Dr Allawi's successes

 

September 24, 2004

 

The US Congress members applauded Iraqi Interim Prime Minister Dr Iyad Allawi when he said in his speech to them that Iraq was moving on the road to success and that elections will be held as planned in January next year.

 

 

Kofi Annan's belated admission

 

September 17, 2004

 

In an interview with the BBC yesterday, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan dropped a very significant political and moral bombshell. He declared that the US decision to invade Iraq was illegal and that a second resolution should have been passed by the UN Security Council to approve the invasion, but that the United States did not wait for its issuance.

 

 

Islam and the difficult test

                                                                

September 7, 2004

 

It has to be admitted - and without any reservations - that the actions being committed at present in various parts of the world in the name of Islam are harming this true religion and its followers, giving a totally different image of it in the minds of many and providing strong arguments and excuses for the spiteful and racists who want to target it and humiliate its followers.

 

 

Compensating the Libyan Jews

 

September 3, 2004

 

Libyan Leader Mu'ammar al-Qadhafi surprised the Arabs and Jews when he announced in a speech he delivered on the 35th anniversary of the 1 September revolution his willingness to pay compensation to the Libyan Jews who were forced to leave their houses.

 

 

Saudi Arabia volunteers to legitimize the occupation

 

July 31, 2004

 

We cannot understand the secret behind the official Saudi "addiction" to issue initiatives that totally conflict with Arab and Muslim interests, and that serve the projects of humiliation and insult that are being carried out by the United States in Afghanistan, Palestine and Iraq.

 

 

A funereal handover of authority

June 29, 2004

The authority handover process in Iraq was carried out behind closed doors, under stringent security measures, amid noticeable confusion and in funereal atmospheres. The "historic day" turned into an ordinary one pervaded by melancholy and characterized by indifference on the part of the majority of Iraqis.

 

 

Resignation of the brave

 

August 22, 2003

 

Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmud Abbas, alias Abu-Mazin, and his minister for security, Colonel Muhammad Dahlan, are under increasing US-Israeli pressure to declare war on the HAMAS and Islamic Jihad movements in the wake of the latest west Jerusalem operation that killed 20 Israelis and wounded at least 100 others.

 

 

Martyrdom-Seekers in Baghdad

 

March 31, 2003

 

Signs of the US-British predicament are increasing day after day. The chances of US President George Bush and hisally British Prime Minister Tony Blair remaining in office are now much less than those of their adversary IraqiPresident Saddam Husayn.

 

 

Ten years on, Iraq still standing tall

 

January 17, 2001

 

Ten years ago today, the U.S.-led Hafr al-Batin coalition launched its campaign to destroy Iraq under the slogan of "liberating" Kuwait, promoting democracy and human rights in the region, and eventually achieving a just settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict.

 

 

Abu-Dis will bring Abed-Rabbo back to the negotiating table

May 16, 2000

All Palestinian top negotiators, it seems, share the same unfortunate characteristics: they have all proven themselves to be weak, indecisive, shaky, and irresolute as far as insisting on Palestinian rights is concerned. The result of such faltering positions has always been the same: more disappointment.

 

 

No it is not the peace of the brave

 

July 07, 1999

 

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Baraq joined the "Peace of the Brave" club, which has Syrian and Palestinian Presidents Hafiz al-Asad and Yasir Arafat among its members, when he announced to the Knesset during the inauguration of his new government yesterday that he was extending "his hand to all parties in order to create the peace of the brave in a region that has undergone many wars" .

 

 

Al-Quds al-Arabi banned in Syria

                                                                           

June 30, 1999

 

The decision by Syria's ministry of information to slap a total ban on the sale of our newspaper in that country -- because we published some details of covert and overt channels of communication between Damascus and Tel Aviv -- came as a shock to us.

 

 

Israel's elections and the Arab world's pitiful state

 

April 19, 1999

 

The Arabs must be allowed to vote in Israel's upcoming general election, declares a cynical and demoralized Abdelbari Atwan. Pan-Arab al-Quds al-Arabi's editor, in a front page leader on Monday, assails the Arabs for their unnatural fixation on the upcoming May 17 Israeli vote.

 

 

How about turning the West Bank into an "expanded nature reserve"?

 

September 4, 1998

 

"We put our hands on our hearts each time news agencies report progress in the Palestinian-Israeli negotiations or that the two sides are close to agreement on U.S. proposals for a 13 percent Israeli redeployment on the West Bank," Palestinian editor Abdelbari Atwan writes Friday.

 

 

Mubarak's blessed flight to Libya

 

July 10, 1998

 

As Arab citizens, our hope and preference was that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak ("mubarak" in Arabic translates to "blessed") would make the journey to Libya, to inquire about the health of Col. Moammar Qadhafi, overland instead of by plane after getting prior permission from the UN sanctions committee (as he did on Thursday).

 

 

New intifada, not distress calls, is the proper answer to Israel's provocations

 

September 19, 1997

 

Palestinian editor Abdelbari Atwan Friday calls for an end to the Palestinian Authority's (PA's) "impotence" in face of successive Israeli provocations, most recently the move by Jewish settlers into Arab East Jerusalem's Ras al -Amoud neighborhood.

 

 

Shush!  No news please, we're Gulf information ministers

 

June 19, 1996

 

It's hard to understand the "complex" information ministers in the Gulf have about the foreign media. And it's impossible, even for those of us who have studied both in the Middle East and in the West, to make sense of their routine statements warning of the foreign media's role in "posing a threat to the security of the Gulf states and undermining their stability."

 

 

Newspaper editorial ridicules continued estrangement between Syria and Iraq

 

February 1, 1996                                                                                                                                              

 

 

An editorial in the London-based newspaper 'Al-Quds al-Arabi' ridicules the continued estrangement between Syria and Iraq and its negative impact on the two countries'interests.