Cease-fires that cannot be
from Graham Usher, Middle East Online
On 10 August representatives of the main Palestinian factions met in Gaza to draft a political policy on which they could unite and give shape and meaning to the amorphous phenomenon known as the intifada. According to Palestinians involved in the talks, the platform has three planks.

Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman: A Conflict of Interest?
By William Hughes, Media Monitors Network, August 23, 2002
On May 2, 2002, the Senate of the U.S. passed a notorious pro-Israel Resolution (S. Res. 247), with respect to the Mid-East controversy. Its co author was Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (D-CT). In pushing the measure, he barked, “You are either with us or the terrorists” (Washington Times, May 3, 2002). Who is this “us” he is talking about?

"Wag the Puppy" - New Twist in Media War
By Norman Solomon,  Media Monitors Network, August 23, 2002
Some people are suspicious that President Bush will go for a "wag the dog" strategy -- boosting Republican prospects with a military assault on Iraq shortly before Election Day. But a modified approach now seems to be underway. Let's call it "wag the puppy."

I am No Occupier, Full Stop.
By Uri Ya'acobi, Paletine Chronicle, August 22, 2002
In another two days I am not going to enlist. I will go the Soldiers House, and will board the bus together with all other conscription candidates and after we get off the bus at the Induction Center in Tel Hashomer, I will, unlike the others, refuse to enlist, and I will almost certainly be sent to prison.

The Jenin report
By Ian Williams. Middle East Onliine
Israel’s spin-doctors managed to make a mole-hill out of a mountain over the UN secretary-general’s Jenin report, which was headlined as rebutting Palestinian claims of a massacre. The Israeli Foreign Ministry crowed that the report “negates this Palestinian fabrication” and “specifically refutes the claim made by a senior Palestinian Authority official alleging the massacre of 500 civilians, indicating that there were no more than 52 Palestinian fatalities in Jenin, most of them apparently armed individuals”.

Time to Expose Israeli Propaganda Network
By Linda S. Heard, Paletine Chronicle, August 22, 2002
The Israeli government knows the importance of propaganda, but rather than use the equivalent of Lord Haw-Haw or Hanoi Jane, it encourages more subtle ways of indoctrinating an unsuspecting world in its favour, attempting to turn public opinion against the Palestinians and their supporters.