Jerusalem - Since the Arab summit conference in Amman concluded with a set of ineffective resolutions last March, Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza have been on the receiving end of Israeli bombardment. Palestine Report Online interviews Mustapha Barghouti, head of the Palestinian Medical Relief Services, on the condition of the Palestinian health sector after eight months of Aqsa Intifada. Yesterday, the Home Office minister Barbara Roche announced a new immigration law that entitles British immigration officials to single out certain ethnic groups and nationalities and discriminate against them by returning them to where they have came from without giving them a fair chance to present their cases and complaints. Damascus - The hopes which Arab diplomatic circles in Washington have pinned on the new administration of President George Bush have begun to vanish. These hopes were expecting two things.
Today there is nothing left, save dark looks from eyes that stare into oblivion.
This question drives much of what is happening here. After all, if time is on Arafat's side he has nothing to lose trying his luck with terror to wear down the Jewish State. Today, for the first time since 1948, the Middle East woke up to its future. Late into the night, hawkish Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, surprised even the most radical Palestinians, and ordered the Israeli Defense Forces to end 34 years of military occupation of Palestinian lands. Tehran - From the inception of the Zionist movement and particularly in recent times, the impression has been created that there is some connection between the state which calls itself Israel and the Jewish people as a whole.