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| March 31 |
| Analysis: Syria, Iran
on warning - Paul
Reynolds, BBC |
| Analysis: U.S. warnings sharpen Syria's Iraq dilemma |
| Martin Woollacot:
Mourning yesterday's victims but not preparing for today |
| After Saddam, can Blair rescue us from Europe? - William Rees-Mogg, Times |
| Bombs and biscuits - Madeleine Bunting, Guardian |
| Paying for the war: President Bush's sums do not add up - Guardian |
| Rupert
Cornwell: Don't mention the V-word - Independent |
| Saddam
won't hesitate with WMD - Yossi
Melman, Haaretz |
| Road
map to the unity government -
Akiva Eldar, Haaretz |
| The
new Nero - Francois de Bernard,
Haaretz |
| Palestinians
worry about their own cause during Iraq war - Danny Rubinstein |
| . |
| March 30 |
| Back Off, Syria and Iran! - Maureen Dowd, NYT |
| Analysis: Zvi Bar'el on increased tension between Syria and the U.S. |
| This is war - it is no time for public
relations - Edward Luttwak, Telegraph |
| Analysis: Ze'ev Schiff on the decisive battle to be
waged at Karbala |
| Analysis: Aluf Benn on the 'road map' peace plan |
| US miscalculation
changes Saddam from devil to hero -
Abdel Bari Atwan |
| Death squads
the CIA ignored - David Rose,
Observer |
| Robert Fisk: In
Baghdad, blood and bandages for the innocent |
| Liberation' is not
freedom - Avi Shlaim, Observer |
| Guns or roses - David Aaronovitch, Observer |
| The testimony of the
dead - Mary Riddell, Observer |
| Please give us a
fighting chance - Kanan Makiya,
Observer |
| Saving the West from
busted bunkers - Andrew Rawnsley,
Observer |
| Analysis: Palestinians compare their struggle to Iraq |
| Conquest
exacts a price - Zvi Bar'el,
Haaretz |
| The
good, the bad and the propaganda -
Gideon Levy, Haaretz |
| Christopher Bellamy: First 'shock and awe', now
'operational pause' |
| Focus: Questions, Questions - Independent |
| . |
| March 29 |
| Analysis:
Iraq war matter of life and death -
Dalal Saoud, UPI |
| Analysis: The
unpredictable war - Barnaby Maos,
BBC |
| Focus: Pause on Road to Baghdad Means Time for Saddam
|
| Hullabaloo over Bashar Assad’s fiery comments on US and
Israel - IPR |
| What made the Americans think they’d be greeted with
open arms? - APR |
| On the way to an easier war and a more difficult peace - Joseph Samaha |
| Friday prayers go on despite bombardment - Adrien Jaulmes,
Telegraph |
| The dream of Arab democracy evaporated at Basra’s gates
- A. Adwan |
| Spin turns to crash as US loses battle of airwaves - Abdelwahab El-Affendi |
| Washington underestimates history - Rosemary Hollis, Daily Star |
| Friday prayers go on despite bombardment - Adrien Jaulmes,
Telegraph |
| Robert Fisk: Bombing of phone system
another little degradation |
| A severe political price - Independent |
| John Peacock: Why al-Jazeera was right to show
those terrible pictures |
| Christopher Bellamy: Reinforcements cannot reach
the front soon enough |
| Lawrence
Freedman: America needs a wider coalition, however difficult |
| Are
we witnessing the madness of Blair? - Matthew Parris, Times |
| Guns and butter: fate of Iraq rests on two key towns and
outside aid - Times |
| Even if he wins the war, Blair has been humiliated -Martin Woollacott, Guardian |
| . |
| March 28 |
| And Now, the Good News - Michael O'thanlon, NYT |
| After Saddam - Telegraph |
| Analysis: Aluf Benn on efforts to implement the 'road map' peace plan |
| No
cakewalk for the allies in Iraq -
Yoel Marcus, Haaretz |
| Ze'ev
Schiff: Israel's goals after the war |
| The solution? Saddam Hussein’s resignation - Shafeeq Ghabra, Daily Star |
| Time to stamp out spam
‘terrorism’ -
Abdeljabbar Adwan, Daily Star |
| An unnecessary war that must not be lost - Volker Perthes, Daily Star |
| The United Nations — a stolen future - Abdelmalik Salman, Daily Star |
| Liberating the people of Iraq by massacring them - APR |
| Condoleezza Rice backs the government austerity plan - IPR |
| Robert Fisk: Raw, devastating realities that expose the truth about Basra |
| The priority here is clear: Oil
comes before people - Independent |
| Christopher Bellamy: There may be no alternative to siege warfare - Indep |
| What did Mr Blair achieve by going to America? - Independent |
| Baghdad
diary - Kim Sengupta, Independent |
| Patrick Cockburn: Why the Iraqis are suspicious of their liberators |
| Freeing Iraqis
will not be a single act, but a long proces - Martin Woollacott |
| Make war to the
camera - Martin Woollacott,
Guardian |
| Bumps
in the road map peace plan -
Uzi Benziman, Haaretz |
| The
battle for Washington - David
Landau, Haaretz |
| Baghdad
will be difficult to conquer -
Simon Jenkins, Times |
| After the storm - Times |
| . |
| March 27 |
| Analysis:
Allies go to Plan D - Martin
Walker, UPI |
| ‘Who should run Iraq?’ - ICC |
| The ‘weapon of hatred’ is facing America - Fahed Fanek |
| Another ‘Proclamation to the people
of Baghdad?’ - Mohammed Al
Roken |
| Pitfalls of playing (and over-playing) the anti-Semitism
card - Joseph Samaha |
| Tragedy in the making, whatever the outcome - APR |
| Campaign in Iraq turning into a ‘war of deliberate
disinformation’ - IPR |
| Will trying to avoid civilian casualties
cause more deaths? - Telegraph |
| Robert Fisk: 'It was an outrage, an obscenity' |
| Mounting
list of casualties a salutary corrective to modern view of war - Indep. |
| After 7 days
of warfare, Baghdad is 'centre of gravity' - Christopher Bellamy |
| The big
dilemma: use decisive force or fight humanely - Rupert Cornwell |
| What
history will say about who won and lost - Anatole Kaletsky, Times |
| Advance
with caution - Times |
| They are fighting for
their independence, not Saddam -Seumas
Milne, Guardian |
| Kosovo for the
Kurds - Timothy Garton Ash,
Guardian |
| McCarthy's ghost
- Gary Younge, Guardian |
| Analysis: Ze'ev Schiff on lessons from a crowded
Baghdad marketplace |
| Quiet,
they're shooting in Iraq - Aluf
Benn, Haaretz |
| A
war of the early 1900s - Meron
Benvenisti, Haaretz |
| A
wolf in wolf's clothing -
Israel Harel, Haaretz |
| . |
| March 26 |
| Tambourines
or booby traps? - Arnaud de
Borchgrave, UPI |
| Thomas Friedman: Scorecard for the War |
| Michael Young: A checklist for following this war |
| Arab regimes face ‘difficult and dangerous’ days
ahead - APR |
| The Americans discover they are not welcome in Iraq - IPR |
| The Iraqis revolt - Telegraph |
| Robert Fisk:
Baghdad shakes to the low rumble of B-52s - Independent |
| Can Allies
avoid a Battle of Berlin? -
Christopher Bellamy, Independent |
| Blair
still needs to justify the risks he has taken by launching this war - Indep. |
| Arab
disunity - Independent |
| Analysis: Ze'ev Schiff on how Turkey changed the thrust of the war
in Iraq |
| Israeli generals assess how the invasion of Iraq is
progressing - Haaretz |
| Ze'ev
Schiff: A different strategy for
Saddam |
| Road
to Baghdad - Editorial, Haaretz |
| Horror
scenarios coming true - Amira Hass, Haaretz |
| How
media warriors invaded Iraq with satellite phones -
Rogel Alpher, Haaretz |
| Selling
the war - Gideon Samet, Haaretz |
| The Garbo doctrine - Jonathan Freedland, Guardian |
| Passions run high in
Saudi Arabia - David Hirst,
Guardian |
| Southern
strategy: Allied military plans need to be flexible - Times |
| Will
America crumple at the sight of its own blood? - Peggy Noornan, Times |
| Getting half the war story from
television news - Rami G. Khouri,
Daily Star |
| US-Turkey match goes into shoot-out - Mohammad Noureddine, Daily Star |
| Weapons policy might change for smaller nations - Abdeljabbar Adwan |
| A stillborn plan for Arab reform - Muna Shuqair, Daily Star |
| . |
| March 25 |
| Commentary: Who dropped
the Turkey? - Nicholas Horrock,
UPI |
| Is the United States stumbling into another Vietnam? - APR |
| Pictures of POWs are a wake-up call for the Americans - IPR |
| Umm Qasr: a line In the sand - Khatoun Haidar, Daily Star |
| ‘We
will not go gently into that dark night’ - Laurie A. Brand,
Daily Star |
| Distinguishing between war crimes and war as a crime - A. El-Affendi |
| UN is being hampered by Annan’s weak leadership - Ali Abunimah, daily Star |
| The Republican Guard:
outgunned and outnumbered, but they never surrender |
| Robert Fisk in Baghdad: Saddam starts
to sound more like his hero, Uncle Joe |
| The tanks roll, but the
show must go on - Libby Purves,
Times |
| The big push: It will
take time to take Baghdad - Times |
| Christopher Bellamy: How the resistance movement caught Allies in a trap |
| This is the
reality of being a PoW - John Nichole, Independent |
| Bush is
right to condemn Iraq's treatment of captured soldiers - Independent |
| Death to French fries
- Matthew Engel, Guardian |
| Flags in the dust - Brian Whitaker, Guardian |
| Analysis: Ze'ev Schiff on how allies winning on the ground, Iraqis on TV |
| . |
| March 24 |
| Analysis:
Saddam on television - Paul Reynolds , BBC |
| Analysis:
Iraq's David and Goliath tactics -
Jonathan Marcus , BBC |
| Analysis:
Battle for Baghdad and the rear -
Martin Walker, UPI |
| Analysis:
Unpleasant developments - Thomas
Houlahan, UPI |
| Analysis:
Saddam on air, alive and kicking -
Claude Salhani, UPI |
| Is the war really just a confrontation with Iraq? - Adnan Abu Odeh, Daily Star |
| Time for better decisions to be made on Palestine-Israel
- Ziad Asali, Daily Star |
| Robert Fisk in Baghdad: 'Iraq will become a quagmire for the Americans...' |
| Win or lose, there's a
TV channel for you - William Rees-Mogg, Times |
| Expectations of a rapid
and painless war were naive -
Times |
| A smart war - Telegraph |
| The
band plays for Baghdad's new mood -
Suzanne Goldenberg, Guardian |
| Only
Iraqis can decide - Neal
Ascherson, Guardian |
| Bush
faces uphill struggle - Martin
Woollacott, Guardian |
| This is not war
as we knew it - Peter
Preston, Guardian |
| Analysis: Amir Oren on
why downed planes and POW's won't deter Bush |
| Ankara,
Washington in danger of ‘opening the gates of hell’ -
APR |
| With eyes focused on Iraq, Sharon kills off Palestinian
aspirations - IPR |
| The push to
Baghdad is what counts -
Christopher Bellamy, Independent |
| Tough
strategic issues must be confronted - Lawrence Freedman,
Independent |
| Cost
and benefit of the Iraq war -
Avraham Tal, Haaretz |
| Hoping
for an American failure - Danny
Rubinstein, Haaretz |
| We are
entitled to a say in the post-war settlement - Independent |
| The war on Iraq sparks new uncertainties - Henry T. Azzam, Daily Star |
| A conflict resolution teacher’s predicament - George E. Irani, Daily Star |
| . |
| March 23 |
| Analysis:
Rapid northern advance - Jonathan
Marcus, BBC |
| Saddam still rules Iraqi minds - Lindsey Hilsum, Telegraph |
| Iraqis still fear Saddam more than bombs
- John Simpson, Telegraph |
| Saddam - dead or alive? - Con Coughlin, Telegraph |
| Dawn of a new kind of war - dward Luttwak, Telegraph |
| Dictator bets
everything on battle for Baghdad -
Abdel Bari Atwan, Observer |
| This is
the reality of war. We bomb. They suffer - Independent |
| 'We are risking
a gulf between the West and the Islamic world' - Observer |
| Why
I weep for my country -
Robert Byrd, Observer |
| Look
to your conscience, Mr Bush -
Mary Riddell Observer |
| Making
of a martyr - Sandra Jordan,
Observer |
| This war
is wrong, but unstoppable. So we must fight for the peace -
Indep |
| Analysis: Ze'ev Schiff on
Iraq's capabilities |
| One
war against one evil man - Zvi
Bar'el, Haaretz |
| One
man's fence is another man's prison - Daniel Ben Simon, Haaretz |
| 'Let
us call on Allah to help the Iraqis' - Danny Rubinstein, Haaretz |
| The
Iraqi threat is narrowing -
Editorial, Haaretz |
| Who's
cut off from reality? - Uzi
Benziman, Haaretz |
| . |
| March 22 |
| Saddam believes he can win even when staring defeat in the face |
| Robert Fisk: Minute after minute the missiles came, with devastating shrieks |
| Robert Fisk: Politics in Baghdad |
| Israel
is acid test of whether the US will win the peace - Times |
| After the Shock and Awe, next will come the despair - Matthew Parris, Times |
| Shock and
awe may trigger regime change in Baghdad - Times |
| Turkish
compromise recipe for conflict -
Times |
| Iran
has vital role in conflict - Times |
| The man behind the new Iran-US entente on Iraq - Ali Nourizadeh, Daily Star |
| Saudi Arabian foreign policy sheds its wisdom and low
profile - Muna Shuqair |
| America’s quick military ‘victory’ is
‘the easy part’ - APR |
| War, and pondering the future of the UN and Euro-American
relations - IPR |
| War in
name of democracy must tolerate some dissent at home -
Independent |
| Back to the UN - Guardian |
| Military mind
games - Mark Lawson, Guardian |
| Peaceniks lost the
war but changed the shape of battle - Jonathan Freedland |
| Profile: Tommy Franks, sneaky-average commander thrives on
success |
| Bin Laden's victory
- Richard Dawkins, Guardian |
| . |
| March 21 |
| New era: Iraq after Saddam - Ali Al-Ridha, Daily Star |
| The
opening shots in a battle ‘for control of the world’ -
APR |
| ‘There is no reason for celebration there are no
happy wars’ - IPR |
| Can Arabs change and remain independent? - Walid Khadduri, Daily Star |
| Defiant Saddam will fight to the end
- Con Coughlin, Telegraph |
| Fall of Basra holds key to Baghdad - Ben Rooney,
Telegraph |
| Into battle - Telegraph |
| Saudis caught between 'Arab Nero' and hated US - David Hirst, Guardian |
| Now Bush's
doctrine of war will be put to the test - Martin Woollacott, Guardian |
| Striking at Saddam - Guardian |
| In
any conflict, the true victor is the State - Simon Jenkins,
Times |
| Opening
shots: A war of nerves as well as weapons has begun - Times |
| Only one
aim can justify this war: freedom for the Iraqi people - Independent |
| Opening shots
that meant the strategy was rewritten - C. Ballamy, Independent |
| Lessons from
the bombing of Baghdad, 1991 -Laurence
Feedman, Independent |
| Ze'ev Schiff: Permitted, banned targets in Iraq |
| The
day after - Yoel Marcus, Haaretz |
| . |
| March 20 |
| Praise for our
boys, fears for Iraq's children -
Simon Hoggart, Guardian |
| Why
we are really at war - Anatole
Kaletsky, Times |
| War
and after - Times |
| Ruthless
gambler rolls his final deadly dice - Andrew Cockburn, Times |
| Robert Fisk: It is difficult to grasp the reality of what is coming |
| Democracies
must hold on to their moral superiority - Independent |
| Sharon's
waiting period is over -
Aluf Benn, Haaretz |
| The
historical mistake is happening now - Reuven Pedatzur, Haaretz |
| Back
to 1956 - Ari Shavit, Haaretz |
| Dangerous
linkage - Israel Harel, Haaretz |
| Is the ‘Arab street’ weary of protest? - Saad Mehio, Daily Star |
| ‘It’s difficult to imagine how the Iraq conflict
will benefit the Palestinians’
- IPR |
| What could Arab leaders have done to curb America’s
ambitions? - APR |
| White House policy and a second awakening - George E. Irani, Daily Star |
| Since when is legitimacy based on bribery or intimidation?
- Adnan Abu Odeh |
| . |
| March 19 |
| Thomas Friedman: D-Day |
| It Used to Be Just the Soldiers Who Died - Gardner Bostford, NYT |
| Michael Young:
Democracy could be the one good reason for war |
| Matthew Engel:
Iraq, the 51st state - Guardian |
| Jonathan Freedland: Dilemmas of war -
Guardian |
| John Keegan: Saddam won't go into exile: there's nowhere for
him to run |
| Iraq's ultimate option - Leader, Guardian |
| Master of the House - Telegraph |
| Bin
Laden's laughter echoes across West - Simon Jenkins. Times |
| Mr Blair
is a leader for troubled times -
Independent |
| We fear
dictators more than bombs -Rania
Kasi, Independent |
| Oppressed by Saddam - Dr. Saleh Ibrahim, Independent |
| Andrew Lansley: The justification for this
confrontation is built on sand |
| Ze'ev Shiff: Colin Powell's mistake |
| The
seventh shoe falls - Gideon Samet,
Haaretz |
| The
Jordanian dilemma: Who to support? -
Zvi Bar'el, Haaretz |
| War, terror, and the clarity of trends - Rami G. Khouri, Daily Star |
| Arab countries: The chances for democracy could decrease - Shibley Telhami |
| The beginning of the end for ‘Khatamism?’ - Abdelmalik Salman, Daily Star |
| Casualties mount ahead of Bush’s ‘blind, deluded
and stupid war’ - APR |
| Timing of Gulf conflict could shield Sharon from social
unrest - IPR |
| . |
| March 18 |
| Robert Fisk: In vain, I looked for
signs of the storm to come. Baghdad is a city sleepwalking to war |
| Thoughts turn to aftermath of looming American invasion - APR |
| ‘Bush is the world’s strongest gorilla and he
is dangerous’ - IPR |
| Why Riyadh needs to act now and ‘join the club’ - Jamal Ahmad Khashoggi |
| Turkey and the advent of the ‘mercenary state’
- Abdelwahab El-Affendi |
| Why does Khamenei co-opt Iraqi Shiite oppositionists? - Ali Nourizadeh |
| A
guide to fighting the good fight -
Liby Purves, Times |
| On the
brink of a war that could have been avoided - Independent |
| John Lichfield: France will be a loser in the second Gulf War - Independent |
| An inevitable war in Iraq -
Editorial, Haaretz |
| A
different war, a similar peace -
Amir Oren, Haaretz |
| Moshe Arens: Response and deterrence |
| . |
| March 17 |
| Analysis: A stark choice for UN - David E. Sanger/NYT The New York Times |
| Short, sharp war: The US
military strategy in Iraq -
Jonathan Marcus ,BBC |
| William Safire:
Getting On With It |
| Patrick Seale: Final countdown toward gory
climax of the Iraq crisis |
| Annotations on the Iraqi Shiite
conference in Tehran - Fahmi
Howeidi |
| ‘Arabs prescribed Iraq war pills: one post-1991 and one
pre-2003’ - APR |
| ‘Sharon drafted the text and Bush delivered the speech’ - IPR |
| All signs point to Turkey entering the fray - Mohammad Noureddine |
| When the talking stopped - Telegraph |
| Bush:
a policeman with the law on his side - William Ress-Mogg, Times |
| Moment
of truth: Azores summit takes diplomacy as far as it can go - Times |
| Analysis:
Another lesson in the danger of divided counsels - Lord Haney, Times |
| Peshmerga
prepares for war with an old enemy -
Catherine Philp, Times |
| Today is the day for the UN - Independent |
| Avoiding water wars - Guardian |
| Behind
the Palestinian optimism - Danny Rubinstein, Haaretz |
| Thank
you, President Bush - Paulo
Coelho, Haaretz |
| A
gamble as an imperial imperative -
Uzi Arad, Haaretz |
| A
few thousand soldiers, a thousandth of the billions - Akiva Eldar, Haaretz |
| . |
| March 16 |
| Analysis: Bush Bets Future on Success in Iraq - David Von Drehle, WashPost |
| What Oil Wants - Daphne Eviatar, Newsweek |
| Robert Fisk: The war of misinformation has begun |
| It is time now to do - Telegraph |
| George's big mistake was to listen to
Tony - Anne Applebaum, Telegraph |
| How to lose friends and offend people - Max Hastings, Telegraph |
| Today,
Blair speaks for enslaved Iraqis -
Barham Salih, Observer |
| Democracy
is not in the war plans - Henry
Porter, Observer |
| Give road
maps a chance - Gwyn Prins, Independent |
| It's a game
... until blood is spilt - Joanna
Bourke, Independent |
| America
wants war, all the rest is window dressing - Independent |
| Not a War Against Islam - Editorial, Arab News |
| Unbridled
force - Editorial, Haaretz |
| Needed:
an Israeli Churchill - Meir
Sokoler, Haaretz |
| A
Blair trap for Saddam in Arabic -
Zvi Bar'el, Haaretz |
| When
Jewish blood is shed, the IDF investigates - Gideon Levy, Haaretz |
| Doors
are open but Arafat may be blocking the way - D. Rubinstein, Haaretz |
| . |
| March 15 |
| Analysis: 'Moment of Truth' in the Azores - Paul Reynolds, BBC |
| Bush
and Blair can only retreat onward to war ‘at any moment’ - APR |
| Friendly fire’ tragedy near Hebron overshadows revolt
of the reservists - IPR |
| Searching for peace until the last possible moment - Kofi A. Annan |
| Why Israel is so excited about Abu Mazen’s new job - Ali Abunimah |
| Broad Saudi reforms are on the horizon
- Nawaf Obaid |
| Treating the symptoms instead of the cause - Adnan Abu Odeh |
| Farewell
to the old world - Gwyn Prins,
Guardian |
| Summits and roadmaps: The end of the diplomatic track is nearing - Times |
| Is
this just the start of an anti-American century? - James Bone, Times |
| Post-Saddam
Iraq could rapidly slide into civil war - Luke Harding, Guardian |
| The gall of
France - Guardian |
| Want to be a
world leader? Learn the vital 5 steps - J. Freedland Guardian |
| Next stop: panic
station - Alexander Chancellor,
Guardian |
| This crazy
non-war has turned into Chinese whispers - Mark Steyn,
Telegraph |
| A cynically timed but welcome step towards new Israeli-Palestinian
talks -Indep |
| Ze'ev Schiff: Aerial hunt for fleeing suspect cannot be justified |
| . |
| March 14 |
| Robert Fisk: Forgotten power of the General Assembly |
| A Tyrant 40 Years in the Making - Roger Morris, NYT |
| Torture, Beyond Saddam - Nicholas Kristof, NYT |
| The reckless French - Telegraph |
| A war conducted by
philistines - Simon Jenkins, Times |
| Deft
diplomacy is needed in coming days - Times |
| Act your
age, not your security council coalition size - Anna Blund, Guardian |
| Elation and fear in
make-or-break UN crisis - Martin
Woollacott, Guardian |
| 'Chirac has the moral
high ground' - Marc Roche,
Guardian |
| UN has at last
become forum of global opinion -
Martin Woollacott, Guardian |
| Elation and fear
in make-or-break UN crisis -
Martin Woollacott, Guardian |
| This last
chance for UN to come together must not be lost - Independent |
| Analysis: The Iraq crisis could signal catastrophe for the UN - Independent |
| Ze'ev Schiff: Sizing up Abu Mazen |
| . |
| March 13 |
| Analysis:
Blair is stronger than he looks -
Martin Walker, UPI |
| Turkish crisis dodged?
- Thomas Houlahan, UPI |
| Analysis: UK
assault on France - Paul Reynolds,
BBC |
| Idealists
shouldn't be allowed to run the world - Anatole Kaletsky, Times |
| Time to choose - Times |
| Blair is right - Telegraph |
| EU
still has a lot more than the US to offer Britain - Peter Riddle, Times |
| In the swing - Anna Blund, Guardian |
| The need to get real
- Guardian |
| Blair has
won more time, but he must still win over the UN - Independent |
| Blair is still shoulder to shoulder with Bush - but for how long?
- Independent |
| . |
| March 12 |
| Whose War? - Patrick J. Buchanan, The American Conservative |
| I Vant to Be Alone - Maureen Dowd, NYT |
| Michael Young:
Iraq’s new rulers wait in the wings |
| Facilitating an attack by pretending to
try and prevent it - APR |
| Abbas’ appointment gives Israel a ‘last chance’ to talk to
a secular leade- APR |
| Malcolm Rifkind: Morality aside, getting rid of Saddam is politically imperative |
| Dangerous delays - Telegraph |
| French disconnection: Chirac's veto
threat will inflict lasting damage
- Times |
| Americans
face prospect of war without Britain - Times |
| Blix
should turn the 'smoking gun' on his own head - James Bone Times |
| Out of the straitjacket
- Alastair Hay, Guardian |
| Jonathan Freedland: Violence in the shadows -
Guardian |
| Blair won't be
forgiven, even if Iraqis dance in the streets - Guardian |
| We should aspire to a world that is ruled by law,
not by war - Independent |
| Ze'ev Schiff: No need for lengthy advance warning |
| Is
the war good for the Jews? -
Gideon Samet, Haaretz |
| The
economic war also failed - Amira
Hass, Haaretz |
| Rumors,
false reports and mistaken identities - Zvi Bar'el, Haaretz |
| Outsourcing
business support services to the region - Henry T. Azzam |
| . |
| March 11 |
| Rumors,
false reports and mistaken identities - Zvi Bar'el, Haaretz |
| Outsourcing
business support services to the region - Henry T. Azzam |
| Hatreds Steeped in Blood - Nicholas Kristof, NYT |
| Keeping America in the dark - Ali Abunimah |
| The democratization pipe dream - Mohammed Abdullah Al Roken |
| What’s in store for Palestinians once US missiles start raining on
Baghdad -APR |
| United States decides not to relay early war warning due to
leaks - IPR |
| New world order - Guardian |
| A wilful blindness - George Monbiot, Guardian |
| Opposition
attracts - Brian Whitaker,
Guardian |
| The
journey from slapping Rajoub -
Danny Rubinstein, Haaretz |
| It's
the motivation, stupid - Yoel
Marcus, Haaretz |
| Beggars
can't be leakers - Amir Oren,
Haaretz |
| Analysis:
Islam without a veil - Claude
Salhani, UPI |
| . |
| March 10 |
| Analysis:
Diplomatic battle - Paul Reynolds,
BBC |
| Robert Fisk: Liberating the Mideast: Why Do We Never Learn? |
| How life could have been different for Saddam if mom sent him to
corner |
| Post-war
Baghdad: US envisages Iraqi quartet alongside US triumvirate -
APR |
| Did we need to greet Abu Mazen by killing a co-founder of
Hamas? - IPR |
| Political schizophrenia dominates Arab politics - Abdulhadi Khalaf |
| The allies don't need to take Baghdad to
defeat Saddam - Telegraph |
| Secrets, lies and
videotapes - Peter Preston,
Guardian |
| Defiance of
global will - Gary Younge,
Guardian |
| Bubble blowers
run out of puff - Larry Elliott,
Guardian |
| Mr Blair,
now is the moment of truth -
Independent |
| Bruce Anderson: Consequences of having delayed
conflict in Iraq - Independent |
| Arab
'betrayal' of the Palestinians -
Danny Rubinstein, Haaretz |
| Who's
afraid of Abu Mazen? - Akiva Elda,
Haaretz |
| . |
| March 9 |
| Jimmy Carter: Just War
— or a Just War? |
| Iraq has one last
chance to disarm - Observer |
| Why I believe
this war is right - Jason Burke,
Observer |
| Endgame in the
Desert of Death - Rory McCarthy
and Jason Burke, Observer |
| Thank the Yank - David Aaronovitch, Observer |
| Inside the mind of a
terrorist - Observer |
| So shall ye reap - Telegraph |
| Votes, vetoes
and going it alone - what options are still open? - Independent |
| Europe has been torn apart by the world's only
super-superpower-Independent |
| The
UN will survive this storm -
Adam Roberts, Observer |
| Prologue
to a `festival of revenge' - Zvi
Bar'el, Haaretz |
| A
chance for Abu Mazen - Editorial,
Haaretz |
| An
ever-increasing bloodbath - Uzi
Benziman, Haaretz |
| Terrorism
by any other name - Gideon
Levy, Haaretz |
| Blix's
final report - Zvi Bar'el, Haaretz |
| . |
| March 8 |
| Analysis:
Islam without a veil - Claude
Salhani, UPI |
| Iraq's emigre generals
- Thomas Houlahan, UPI |
| Can anyone stand in the way of the ‘axis of war?’
- APR |
| Israeli leadership wants ‘massive and decisive American
military blow’ - IPR |
| The war on Iraq and oil price scenarios
- Henry T. Azzam |
| Arab summits: reasons to be miserable - Adnan Abu Odeh |
| Twilight of the UN - Telegraph |
| Final phase: The United Nations, Resolution 1441 and Iraq's arsenal - Times |
| The
disarming Mr Blix - Guardian |
| 'It's
like an eye for a tooth, or an ear' - Guardian |
| If
we are going to intervene, there will have to be rules - Jonathan Freedland |
| Time for both
sides to tell the truth about evil and oil - Rowan Williams, Indep. |
| Robert Fisk: US war plans are not helped by Blix |
| This
is not just the end of Saddam, but the creation of a new world order - Independent |
| The UN must take Mr Blix's report seriously - by voting against
military action - Independent |
| . |
| March 7 |
| Political/defence
analysts react to Blix |
| Analysis: War 'could be illegal' - Peter Gould, BBC |
| The Arab World Tunes In - Tom Brokav, NYT |
| What a Little War in Iraq Could Do - Michael Walzer, NYT |
| The unspoken war motives of Bush supporters - Muna Shuqair |
| The post-summit quest for reforming the Arab world - Jamal Khashoggi |
| The Arab summit, a post-mortem - Joseph Samaha |
| Arabs trade insults as Israelis cash in and Turks cut their
losses - APR |
| Israel
heads ‘back to the inferno’ after 2-month lull in attacks - IPR |
| The
art of persuasion - Times |
| Neglect of the
Palestinian plight is risky and wrong -Martin Woollacott, Guardian |
| Britain's role is crucial in next stage
of war on terror - Iran -
Telegraph |
| Is
this war moral ? - John Hari, Independent |
| Saddam, the shepherd boy - a tale of motherly love and donkeys - Independent |
| America's
power will bring its own counter-revolution - Adrian Hamilton, Idep |
| Ze'ev Schiff: If America backs down on Iraq |
| Time
to keep our noses out - Yoel
Marcus, Haaretz |
| The
Gaza alternative to Defensive Shield - Amos Harel, Haaretz |
| . |
| March 6 |
| Ze'ev Schiff: Thwarting suicide missions is not enough |
| The terrible fascination with war - Joseph Zibara |
| Tehran is said to be infiltrating Fatah’s ranks with
‘terrorists’ - IPR |
| ‘Peace initiatives’ proliferate, while Kuwait guns
for Moussa - APR |
| Fidel Castro:
Voice of the dark corners |
| Islam and us - Timothy Garton Ash, Guardian |
| Misleading
or misled? - Simon Tisdall,
Guardian |
| Why justice has a
double meaning - Isabel Hilton,
Guardian |
| Exclusive! What
George Bush read this morning -
Catherine Bennett, Guardian |
| The choice facing Russia -Telegraph |
| Saddam is like a zit you can't ignore - Boris Johnson,Telegraph |
| A second resolution should set final deadlines rather than authorise war
-Indep |
| All
about warmongers and mischief-makers - Anatole Kalesky, Times |
| The
terror attack and the response -
Editorial, Haaretz |
| What's
cooking in the kitchenette - Aluf
Benn, Haaretz |
| . |
| March 5 |
| Thomas Friedman:
Chicken à la Iraq |
| Michael Young: War is
coming, deal with it |
| Robert Fisk: A breakthrough in the war on terror? |
| Battle for influence rages on Arab TV - Abdeljabbar Adwan |
| Turkish vote shocker: Why … and what happens next? - Moh. Noureddine |
| It’s the economy, stupid! (well, partly at least) - Rami G. Khouri |
| Turks give a lesson in ‘patriotism,’ while
‘Emirati initiative’ won’t go away - APR |
| Netanyahu to slash income tax, slap VAT on fruit and
vegetables - IPR |
| Analysis:
Hungry in Gaza - Peter Hansen,
Guardian |
| Stalin: fifty years
on - Robert Conquest , Guardian |
| Stalin is alive - Jonathan Freedland, Guardian |
| Bush
isolated by failure to learn father's lesson - Richard Beeston, Times |
| Mr Blair
may soon face a dangerous dilemma -
Independent |
| Analysis: Water scarcity could affect billions - Michael McCarthy, Independent |
| Ze'ev Schiff: Beware of Iraqis bearing gifts |
| Vicious
circle in the Gaza Strip - Bradley
Burston, Haaretz |
| In
Sharon's image - Gideon Samet,
Haaretz |
| The
French position on Iraq - Jacques
Huntzinger, Haaretz |
| The waning of the `Arab nation' - Zvi Bar'el, Haaretz |
| . |
| March 4 |
| Analysis: US considers
'Plan B' on Iraq - Nick Childs,
BBC |
| Flashback: Saddam
Hussein's war plan - Arnaud de
Borchgrave, UPI |
| Mixed verdicts on Sharm el-Sheikh summit - APR |
| US aid, Arafat on terror, and the new government vie for column space - IPR |
| Why we can trust Bush this time - Saad Mehio |
| Sharon wagers on a US walkover - Joseph Samaha |
| Oil prices won’t mimic those of Gulf War - Nawaf Obaid |
| Egyptian police target refugees, street children - Steve Negus |
| The palace of the end - Martin Amis, Guardian |
| The Washington divide - Sir Timothy Garden, Guardian |
| Inside
Saddam's military elite - Anthony
Loyd, Times |
| Turkey
gives Europe a lesson in democracy -
Mary Dejevsky, Independent |
| Don't panic. War has started but nothing
significant has changed - Simon
Carr |
| Stick to the plan - Telegraph |
| Sharon and his four prime ministers - Yoel Marcus, Haaretz |
| The prerequisite for negotiations - Moshe Arens, Haaretz |
| If
only the bullets could talk -
Akiva Eldar, Haaretz |
| . |
| March 3 |
| Greed is the word - Madeleine Bunting, Guardian |
| Put away the cuddly toys. Now it's time to get tough - Naomi Klein, Guardian |
| Law,
and conscience, demand we go to war - William Ress-Mogg, Times |
| A
difficult week ahead for the US and its allies - Times |
| Flight of the pacifists - Telegraph |
| Arrest of
al-Qa'ida suspect shows how war on terror could be fought - Indep. |
| If
you will it, it is a dream -
Akiva Eldar, Haaretz |
| There's
no point in waiting for Purim -
Aviad Kleinberg, Haaretz |
| Pinpoints
of light in a dark economy -
Avraham Tal, Haaretz |
| Report
set to spark reform in Southern Islamic Movement - Haaretz |
| . |
| March 2 |
| Analysis: Arabs too split for
effective diplomacy on Iraq |
| Robert Fisk: American billions keep Arab regimes sweet |
| Architect of
New York's day of terror - Jason
Burke, Observer |
| Balance will be the
first casualty - Peter
Preston, Observer |
| Is there a way out of
the diplomatic deadlock? -
Rosemary Hollis, Observer |
| The only way to peace
- Nick Cohen, Observer |
| Winning the peace - Mark Leonard, Observer |
| A little
more pragmatism, a little less conviction - Independent |
| So
what if he said different - Uzi
Benziman, Haaretz |
| When
visions collide - Zvi Bar'el,
Haaretz |
| The
PLO withers while Hamas flourishes -
Danny Rubinstein, Haaretz |
| Nightmare
scenarios for all -Zvi Bar'el,
Haaretz |
| Analysis:
Sizing up the Iraqi army - Thomas
Houlahan, UPI |
| . |
| March 1 |
| Non-aligned power in a unipolar world -
Abdelmalik Salman |
| Rediscovering ‘linkage’ between Iraq and Palestine
- APR |
| Poll shows majority of public unhappy with new government
- IPR |
| David Hirst: Arab states paralysed by fear of their people and the US |
| 'History will be my
judge' - Exclusive interview
with Tony Blair, Guardian |
| The fright of our
lives - Alexander Chancellor,
Guardian |
| Silly show-offs
against Saddam! - Julie Burchill,
Guardian |
| Summit challenges - Ibrahim Nafie, Ahram Weekly |
| 'No to war...No to tyranny' - Mohamed Sid-Ahmed, Ahram Weekly |
| Wolfowitz's America - Mohamed Hakki, Ahram Weekly |
| A predictable cycle of violence
- Steve Niva, Ahram Weekly |
| A summit for Arab reform - Jamal Ahmed Khashoggi, Ahram Weekly |
