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Thursday July 27, 2006 The Guardian

In the barren, brutal knockabout of British parliamentary politics, to be called “soft” on anything is clearly one of the worst schoolyard curses. John Reid has proven his hard credentials in the [...]

Editor & Publisher By E&P Staff

NEW YORK We often hear from President Bush, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld or various generals about the high order of troop morale in Iraq –but we rarely hear directly from the troops themselves. Joshua Partlow of The Washington Post spent four days recently, on and off patrol, with members of the [...]

Last update - 22:27 26/07/2006 By Tamara Traubmann and Yossi Melman ymelman@haaretz.co.il, Haaretz Correspondents

A Canadian-Israeli professor has been held by Israeli authorities for 18 days without access to a lawyer, on suspicion of spying for Hezbollah and Iranian intelligence agents.

A gag order on the case was lifted Wednesday after Haaretz appealed to Nazareth Magistrates Court.

Professor Ghazi [...]

The Independent, UK By Colin Brown, Deputy Political Editor

Charities, civil rights groups and Britain’s leading Muslim organisation today unite in signing an open letter to Tony Blair condemning him for his failure back the United Nations’ call for a ceasefire in the Middle East.

The letter underlines the widespread anger in Britain at the Prime Minister’s support [...]

t r u t h o u t | Perspective     By Kathy Gannon     The Associated Press

    Tyre, Lebanon - Dirty bandages hid the worst of 8-year-old Zainab Jawad’s swollen, bloodied nose Monday. Her arm, fractured in two places, was strapped to her chest.

    Stretched out on a bed at Najem Hospital, Zainab squeezed her brown eyes shut as memories [...]

t r u t h o u t | Perspective     By Norman Solomon

    Syndicated columnist Richard Cohen declared in the Washington Post on Tuesday that an-eye-for-an-eye would be a hopelessly wimpy policy for the Israeli government.

    ”Anyone who knows anything about the Middle East knows that proportionality is madness,” he wrote. “For Israel, a small country within reach, [...]

By Kevin Sites

TYRE, Lebanon - For the Chahines of Dearborn, Mich., spending summers in south Lebanon is a family tradition. It also helps to keep them in touch with their Arabic heritage. But this summer that tradition almost cost them their lives. The Chahines were in the village of Yaroun near the Israeli border when fighting began, [...]