The Northern Frontby Charles Glass 
The Northern Front is an eyewitness account of the Iraqi opposition's preparations for the American invasion, the Kurdish planning in northern Iraq and the early stages of the war when some of the opposition moved to the south. Order a copy through Al Saqi Books
The Tribes Triumphantby Charles Glass 
The Tribes Triumphant completes the story of Charles Glass' earlier Middle East adventure, Tribes With Flags, after his kidnapping by Hizballah in Lebanon.
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Tribes With Flagsby Charles Glass 
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The power network
The New Statesman 15 May 08
Publicly, Israel will not do business with those who do not recognise it. But behind the scenes is a complex web of international contacts....
Obituary of Imad Mougnieh: Elusive Hizbollah leader
The Independent 16 Feb 08
The United States had credited Mougnieh with the 1983 bombing of its embassy in Beirut and the destruction of the US Marine headquarters later that year, the hijacking of TWA flight 847 in 1985 and the kidnappings of dozens of American citizens in Lebanon throughout the 1980s. Israel blamed him for the suicide bombing that levelled its military command centre...
The life of a hostage: terrifying, unjust and expendable
The Independent 05 Jul 07
Alan Johnston told a press conference after his release yesterday morning, "They did threaten my life a number of times. There was one 24-hour period when they seemed to get very angry and chained me up, but that only lasted 24 hours."...
A patriotic thought experiment
Taki's Top Drawer 04 Jul 07
"I am going to teach [them] to elect good men." --President Woodrow Wilson, referring to his decision in 1914 to invade Mexico. (Quoted in Peter Smith, Talons of the Eagle: Dynamics of U.S.-Latin American Relations. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. page 51.)...
Obituary - Major Derek Cooper, MC, OBE, World War II hero who espoused the Palestinian cause
The Independent 31 May 07
There was no more improbable sight in Beirut during the brutal Israeli siege of 1982 than a graceful and elegant English couple scrabbling through bombed buildings to rescue injured children. Derek Cooper was 70 and his second wife Pamela 72 when they went to Lebanon to alleviate some of the suffering that Ariel Sharon's onslaught was inflicting on its Palestinian...
Cyber-Jihad
London Review of Books Vol. 28, No. 5 12 Mar 06
When I was five years old, the first secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, Nikita Khrushchev, threatened to bury me. That was in 1956, when he buried the Hungarian Revolution. In California we welcomed Hungarian victims of Soviet brutality while finding no room for the Guatemalans whose democracy the CIA had crushed two years earlier. We were trained to ignore...
Walled Off: Sharon's fence turns villages into prisons
The American Conservative 30 Aug 04
Az-Zawieh, West Bank - The soldier, automatic rifle slung over his shoulder like a kid's backpack, approached the car and announced, "This is a closed military area." Whenever the Israeli army wants to exclude prying eyes from some corner of its occupied territories, an officer declares a "closed military area." The incantation permits the army to conceal some of the...
'It was necessary to uproot them'
London Review of Books 24 Jun 04
Reviews of: A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples by Ilan Pappe Cambridge, 333 pp, £15.99 The Gun and the Olive Branch by David Hirst Faber, 624 pp, £16.99 The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited by Benny Morris Cambridge, 664 pp, £70.00...
A Palestinian Mandela?
The New Statesman 15 Jul 02
One place to look for the "new and different Palestinian leadership" that President George Bush demanded last Monday, is Petach Tikva Prison near Tel Aviv. In the solitary confinement of his cell, Marwan Barghouthi has been charged with terrorist offences against Israel and awaits trial....
Sharon, the failed kingmaker
The Guardian 25 Jun 02
Voices in Israel, including within Ariel Sharon's cabinet, are calling on their prime minister to crown his reconquista of the West Bank by naming a new Palestinian leader. If he does so, it will be his second exercise in Arab kingmaking. The first was 20 years ago in Lebanon. Eighteen years and thousands of dead later, Israelis were as happy...
Palestine's Petain?
The Guardian 15 May 02
Yasser Arafat Has Escaped Again - But His People Are Having To Pay For His Liberty The old fox escaped the hencoop again. For almost two weeks, Yasser Arafat has paraded through the ravaged streets of the West Bank as if he had won Palestine's war of independence. It was like old times, with Sharon squeezing him, then letting him...
Ending the occupation
Znet 05 Apr 02
Paris The return of Secretary of State Colin Powell to Israel has revived language that, until now, the Bush administration has avoided: peace process, peace partner and the other words that implied America would intervene in negotiations. The United States has been forced to act, because tolerance of Israeli military assaults in the occupied territories encourages demonstrators to destabilise allied...
Empty chair protest as Israelis ban Arafat from Bethlehem special Mass
The Daily Telegraph 26 Dec 01
At Midnight Mass in St Catherine's Roman Catholic Church, the senior Roman Catholic clergyman in the Holy Land, Latin Patriarch Michel Sabbah, addressed an absent guest - Yasser Arafat....
The scene is set for another Lebanon
The New Statesman 16 Dec 01
Another Palestinian has killed himself in Jerusalem. He was walking towards the David Citadel Hotel in King David Street, where two Israeli ministers were staying. The minister of public security, Uzi Landau, and the religious affairs minister, Asher Ohana, could not have known that the boy was on his way to kill them....
The first casualty
The Observer 18 Mar 01
IN 1984 I filed a report to ABC News on Israeli death squads in south Lebanon that was never broadcast. My camera crew and I had spent a week travelling the roads of south Lebanon in the tracks of plainclothes assassins whom United Nations soldiers and officials, charity workers, villagers and guerrillas all claimed were locating and shooting individual Lebanese...
When in doubt, just bomb Lebanon
The Daily Star 16 Feb 00
When Israel gets angry, try not to be Lebanese. It doesn't seem to matter who provokes Israel's wrath, its government cannot break the habit of taking it out on Lebanon. It used to get mad at the Palestine Liberation Organization, and, sure as shooting, it would bomb Lebanon. Now, when it loses patience with Syria, it considers carefully what to...
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