Uncorking the bottled peace
OF the many proposals made over the years to give this much or that much of occupied Palestine back to the Palestinians, two remain noteworthy. The 1981 Saudi-led Fahd Plan…
Gaza’s fate
WAKING up yesterday to the news that Hamas had accepted a ceasefire proposal came as a pleasant surprise, but it did not last long. It was accompanied by reports of…
Deniable truths
THEY are all dead: the feisty Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci and her 14 interviewees — prominent amongst them Henry Kissinger, King Hussein of Jordan, Yasser Arafat, Mrs Golda Meir, Indira…
As cursing won’t help, try reason
CURSING the enemy is a heritage of many belief systems, designed as a hex in some and simply venting the spleen in others. In countless legends, men have turned into…
Deadly culture wars
“I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter’s gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.” — Yasser Arafat,…
Algeria honours Eqbal
LAST week, at the invitation of the Ministry of Mujahideen, I attended five days of pomp and pageantry celebrating heroes of the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962). Those remembered in…
‘Ana Dammi Filasteeni’
Palestinians breed and bleed and advertise their misery — Ruth Wisse, Harvard Professor SUPPOSE an enemy country were, God forbid, to besiege Lahore, mercilessly bombard its trapped civilians, kill hundreds…
They called Mandela a terrorist
WHEN the lights suddenly go off, we mostly lean on our primordial instincts to negotiate the darkened room with memory of passage through the maze of obstacles and locate, say,…
The next Nakba
“HE said flat out, don’t talk to me about history,” Aaron David Miller says of Jared Kushner, the US president’s son-in-law and the architect of the ‘deal of the century’…
Iran-Israel Russian Roulette
The expected has happened. After Israel’s strike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus on April 1, 2024 killed seven personnel including three senior Iranian commanders, Tehran launched a 300-strong missile…
