The Deadly Path to Armageddon
By Dr. E.A. Richards, Palestine Chronicle, August 19, 2002
Armageddon is described as the great battlefield, the final conflict between good and evil, as noted in Revelations, and in most eyes the site where the land of Israel now stands. This concept of a final great battle has been drawn from various sources, including, religious writings such as the Holy al-Qur'an, the Mahabharata and the Bhagavad-Gita, The Old Testament or Torah, also known as the Pentateuch, The New Testament, The Chinese Tao-te-ching. the Hindu Vedas and Upanishads, and the complete Analects of Confucius.

Not An Unusual Story 
By Paul V. Rafferty, Palestine Chronicle, August 19, 2002
His name is not important – except to those who know him – nor is his land – except to those who know it. One day, he awakened to the sounds of machinery and gunfire. He ran out of his home to see his friends and neighbors being  shot and killed by strangers in tanks. Not knowing what to do, he stooped down and grabbed some stones to hurl at the intruders. Basic instinct versus planned destruction.

Day 58: Nablus Still Under Siege - Four Hours Break
By Amer Abdelhadi, Palestine Chronicle, August 17, 2002
One man I know is a religious guy who is an excellent chef in Arabic and Greek sweets, he was arrested because he wears a long beard. I was told by his brothers that he was beaten up so much and many Israeli soldiers have taken pictures with him because they say he looks like Osama Bin Laden. An announcement was made through my radio station last night that the curfew would be lifted from 1-6 pm today. People in Nablus were disappointed as they expected a total withdrawal since this curfew was imposed on Nablus for so long while other cities in the West Bank get to resume their daily lives almost normally. (Other cities get the curfew lifted almost every day from 6 am – 6 pm). People in Nablus are not jealous of other cities, they want the curfew lifted and the Israeli offensive troops withdraw completely.

Israel Tightens Stranglehold on 1948 Palestinians
By Isabelle Humphries, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, August 2002
This past June 12 the Green Patrol, created 25 years ago by then-Agriculture Minister Ariel Sharon, oversaw the destruction of 14 metal shacks in the Negev desert, leaving some 125 Bedouin citizens of Israel homeless. A week earlier the Israeli Knesset voted to cut all child allowance by 4 percent—but with an additional 20 percent reduction in benefits for a child without a relative who has served in the army. As few Arab citizens serve in the Israeli army, it is the one million Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel who will be the primary victims of this policy. At the same time, Israeli courts continue to investigate MK Azmi Bishara’s alleged support of terrorism and restrict the travel of MK Ahmed Tibi and Sheikh Riad Saleh, leader of the Islamic Movement inside Israel. As the media eye is turned to suicide bombs, settlers and Israeli military action in the 1967 territories, Israel is tightening its colonialist control over Arab citizens inside the Green Line.

The Collaborator
By Gershom Gorenberg, New York Times Sunday Magazine, August 18, 2002
M. lives in a one-bedroom apartment on the main street of an Israeli town. Square, graceless apartment blocks covered in exhaust-stained stucco, their windows shuttered against the Levantine sun, stand above a supermarket, a hamburger joint and a booth selling lottery tickets, all buffeted by the growls of buses. It is a place whose only character is that it is indistinguishable from dozens of other Israeli main streets built in haste. As a setting for an espionage story, it belongs not to an airport thriller but to a Graham Greene tale, one in which a decent man makes one apparently sensible choice and finds himself in a grim labyrinth. M. is that man.

Seven Days Would Be Too Long: Free Saad Eddin Ibrahim
By Ahmed Amr, Palestine Chronicle, August 19, 2002
I have a question for the Egyptian Government and especially for President Mubarak. Does Egypt really need to have a man like Saad Eddin Ibrahim behind bars? This whole trial had the appearance of a 'personal vendetta'. Why was this incredible waste of public funds orchestrated against a man who is vocal, but otherwise harmless? Who are these judges who would silence an honest intellectual? Do the authorities in Egypt really think that the clock can be turned back or that an economically robust Egypt can develop in a climate that stifles dissent.

Israel will use America's War on Iraq to destroy Palestine
By Khaled Diab, Media Monitors Network, August 19, 2002
Ethnic Cleansing under any name or pretext is a war crime.  The United States should not condone, allow, or cause ethnic cleansing to the Palestinians.  The United States will secure its interests, the interests of the Israelis,  the Palestinians, and the other  people in the region only if the United States actively enforces, or at least continually promotes, the principles of democracy, peace, freedom, and justice for all the people in the Middle East and the world.