The
Vision of Statesman Suleiman Olayan
By James Zogby, Palestine Chronicle, August
15, 2002
At a time when the US-Saudi relationship is
being challenged and tested, a leader in the
effort to build bridges between the United
States and the Arab world has passed away.
Suleiman Saleh Olayan died on July 4 in the
United States. It is perhaps no coincidence
that he should die on the day the United States
celebrates its Independence Day. He was a
proud citizen of Saudi Arabia, but, in many
ways, the life of Suleiman Olayan was defined
by his friendship with America. He was as
committed to the endurance of the Saudi-US
relationship as he was to maintaining his
various personal and business ties a result
of more than 55 years of building companies
and relationships with American partners and
friends.
Another
Evil Silence
By Dr. E.A. Richards, Palestine Chronicle,
August 16, 2002
A deadly silence covers Palestinian cities
where the Israeli neo-nazi Wehrmacht are in
jackbooted control - just as the old nazis
were in Paris, Oslo, Brussels, Bergen, and
Berlin. This evil cover of silence is again
kept secure by the major news media of the
US and much of the world. Why does not the
American media report to us what tragic events
are being perpetrated by the occupying army
of Israel, backed up by American-made tanks,
planes, helicopters, and heavy weapons?
Rumsfeld's
Crazy Foreign Policy Team
By Ahmed Amr, Editor, NileMedia, August 17,
2002
In the January 1975 issue of Commentary, Robert
Tucker promoted the radical notion of invading
Arab oil fields. It is worth noting that Commentary
is a publication of the American Jewish Committee
and is edited by Norman Podhoretz, one of
the movers and shakers in the neo-conservative
movement. The article was titled "Oil: The
Issue of American Intervention". Last week,
a protégé of Richard Perle urged the Pentagon
to again consider the military conquest of
Gulf oil fields.
Disunity
and Factionalsim
by Edward Said, Media Monitors Network, August
17, 2002
Underlying most of the findings in the much
cited 2002 UNDP Arab Human Development Report
is the extraordinary lack of coordination
between Arab countries. There is considerable
irony in the fact that the Arabs are discussed
and referred to both in this report and elsewhere
as a group even though they seem rarely to
function as one, except negatively.
The
Palestinians, Close Up
Beyond the bombings, the bombast and the bloodshed,
an intimate look at how the members of an
embattled society live, work, play and die
BY Matt Rees, Time Magazine, August 11, 2002
Ata Sarasra crunches slowly over the cracked,
gray-marbled tiles and ruptured pipes where
his kitchen used to be. A week before, Israeli
soldiers came to destroy his seven-bedroom
home, a day after his son Hazim, 17, blew
himself up in a Jerusalem suicide attack that
wounded five Israelis. As the 47-year-old
father of five balances himself on the debris
of his home, he looks tired. He is worn by
a week of mourning for his son, "who died
a martyr, thank God," and for his house. What
little sleep he got the previous night at
his brother's home, where his family now stays,
was disturbed by the sound of three powerful
explosions as the Israelis blew up more homes
near his village, Beit Jala.
