Interpreting the Middle East for North Americans—
Interpreting North America for the Middle East

The U.S., Iraq, and the Israeli Occupation of Palestine

7 Iraqi and Palestinian Voters May Have Little Say About Their New Governments—Rachelle Marshall

10 The Hariri Assassination—Five Views—Linda Dahdah, Robert Fisk, Jim Lobe, Linda Heard, Richard H. Curtiss

16 Total Direct Aid to Israel Conservatively Estimated At Almost $105 Billion—Shirl McArthur

18 Yonatan Shapira: Israel's Pilot Refusenik—Robert Hirschfield

19 Neocon Douglas Feith to Resign From Pentagon, As AIPAC Investigations Continue—Andrew I. Killgore

20 The Sharm el-Sheikh Conference: Facts on the Ground Trump Talk of Peace—Three Views—Mohammed Omer, Samah Jabr, Uri Avnery

25 Stealing Gaza Piece by Piece—Mohammed Omer

26 109th Congress Gets Organized, but Looks Much Like the 108th—Shirl McArthur

30 Arab Press Review: Syrian, Israeli, U.S. Occupation: Finding the Achilles Heel—Peter C. Valenti

Special Reports

28 United Nations Report: U.S. Opposition to International Criminal Court May Preclude A Hearing on Darfur—Ian Williams

32 Turkish Cypriot Elections Confirm Status Quo, But Times May Be Changing—John Gorvett

33 Municipal Election Results Surprise Saudi Arabian Voters—Delinda C. Hanley

34 Egyptian Example Shows Need for Homegrown Democratization in the Middle East—Ibrahim M. Oweiss

35 Relations Between India and Pakistan Continue to Improve—M.M. Ali

36 European Press Review: Palestinian Election: "Moment of Truth" Has Arrived, Says Spain's La Razon—Lucy Jones

38 Anti-Corruption Drives Uncovering Some Things Rotten in the State of Turkey—Jon Gorvett

39 Tunisia's President Ben Ali Seeks Solidarity in Fight to End Poverty—Delinda C. Hanley

42 Is Indonesia Now a Net Importer of Gas, and No Longer an "Eligible" OPEC Member?—John Gee

44 ABC-TV's Hit Series, "Lost," Features Sayid, a Sensitive, Appealing Iraqi—Pat McDonnell Twair

Departments

5 Letters to the Editor

46 Northern California Chronicle: Afghanistan "Moving Forward" After Presidential Election, Says Ambassador Jawad—Elaine Pasquini

48 New York City and Tri-State News: Columbia University Panel Debates "One State or Two"—Jane Adas

50 Southern California Chronicle: Visionary Engineer Sadeq Faris Outlines How Arab States Can Defy Globalization—Jane Adas

53 Other People's Mail

55 The World Looks at the Middle East—Cartoons

56 Education: The Battle at Columbia University—Robert Gaines

58 Judaism and Israel: Playing the Holocaust Card: Are Charges of Anti-Semitism Used to Silence Debate?—Allan C. Brownfeld

60 Arab-American Activism: Remembering Hisham Sharabi

62 Human Rights: State Department Confronted on Israeli Mistreatment of U.S. Citizens

63 Waging Peace: Kosovo: What Next?

67 Diplomatic Doings: Ambassador Nabil Fahmy Discusses Egyptian-U.S. Trade

70 Book Review: How Israel Lost: The Four Questions—Reviewed by Janet McMahon

71 AET Book Club Catalog

79 Middle East Marketplace

80 Bulletin Board

81 2005 AET Choir of Angels

82 Publishers' Page

78 Index to Advertisers