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  Peace in the Middle East : A Global Challenge and a Human Imperative
  Matrix reloaded -- yet again
Israel may one day create some sort of severely circumscribed state for the Palestinians of the West Bank and Gaza. The question is what kind of a nation will be left to enjoy its limited fruits. Jonathan Cook poses the question
 
  Dr Strangelove goes live as secret Israeli missile test is mistakenly shown on TV
Reality television has finally caught up with the Israeli military. But the country's generals had no idea that their every move was being watched, their secret missile codes broadcast to their enemies or their conversations potentially overheard from Libya to Iran
 
 
 
  Dr Hanan Ashrawi / Speech at the Sydney Peace Foundation lecture
The full transcript of Dr Ashrawi's speech the night before receiving they Sydney Peace Award for 2003.
 
   
 
  Voiding the Palestinians: An Allegory
 
  M. Shahid Alam* / Arabic Media Internet Network
What is the significance of a single rape-murder in the long and tortuous history of the dispossession of one people by another? No dispossession ever makes a pretty picture. Moreover, the dispossession of Palestinians is no ordinary dispossession. It is not ordinary because it involved the complete voiding of one people by another: Palestine had to be emptied of its ancient Palestinian population to make room for Jews.
 
   
 
  Lessons in moral dignity
 
  Azmi Bishara / Al Ahram Weekly
For justice to be reunited with history, liberal and democratic forces in Palestine and the Arab world must be capable of reaching, and changing, the minds of Israelis, writes Azmi Bishara
       
 
  Israel on road to ruin, warn former Shin Bet chiefs
 
  Chris McGreal / The Guardian
Four former directors of Israel's Shin Bet security service have given unprecedented warnings that the prime minister, Ariel Sharon, is leading the country to catastrophe by failing to pursue peace with the Palestinians.
       
 
  'Israel Is Bad For The Jews'
 
  Eliahu Salpeter / Ha'aretz
While Israeli ministers and Jewish activists continue to describe every criticism of Israel - such as a problematic public opinion poll showing that Europeans see the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as the greatest threat to world peace - liberal Jewish circles in the West are facing a different political threat.
         
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