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...Laden tape, but rather Israel's decision to declare Yasser Arafat "irrelevant" and cut all ties with him that dominated Arab headlines this week. And Arab papers see Ariel Sharon rather than Yasser Arafat as the problem. Egypt's Al Ahram blames the crisis on a deliberate plan by Sharon to "topple Arafat, reenter areas under PA control and annex large swathes of the West Bank." Editor Ebrahim Nafie warns that bombing PA buildings makes it impossible for Arafat to implement a crackdown on terror suspects and forge an anti-terrorism consensus among Palestinians. He berates Washington's support Sharon...
...Much of the world's media this week was taken up by commentaries on Secretary of State Colin Powell's Monday speech on the peace process. Egypt's official Al Ahram was cautiously optimistic in an editorial, but it also carried a front page analysis predicting problems: "[The Palestinians'] ill-disguised discomfort was due to the concrete demands Powell made on them to bring about [an end to the intifada] compared to the vagueness he wanted from Israel to move to [end its occupation of the West Bank and Gaza]." Israeli raids into Palestinian territories and new housing construction...
...bombed and killed 20,000 of its civilians because their Muslim faith asked them to protest the government’s tyranny. Might as well define America by Jerry Falwell and David Duke. The fact that the favorable book review was published in a respectable mainstream newspaper like Al-Ahram again does not say anything about the position of the mainstream. If we were to open the pages of the eminently mainstream Crimson last Monday, then using Douthat’s logic, we would think that most Harvard students are profoundly ignorant of and biased against Islam. But, we know...
...examples must serve for all. Last October, the mainstream Egyptian paper Al-Ahram wrote up a favorable summary of a 1983 book by Mustafa Tlass, now Syria’s Minister of Defense. The book, entitled “The Matzah of Zion,” claimed that “in the records of the Palestinian police...there are many recorded cases of the bodies of Arab children being found, torn to pieces without a single drop of blood.” According to Tlass, “the most reasonable explanation is that the blood was taken...
...Over in Cairo, the editor of the official daily Al Ahram is more concerned that the U.S. do more to resolve the Middle East conflict. "Because the situation is so readily exploitable by madmen any long-term remedy to terrorism must extend beyond military and economic measures to address the policies that breed such rancor? By adopting a more equitable stance, recognizing the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people and reviving the Arab-Israeli peace process in accordance with its original guiding principles, the U.S. would do much to counter anti-American sentiments." The paper welcomes recent announcements...