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Cairolive.com's today's top news links section surfs the net for you, searching high and low for the most useful and interesting stories out there about Egypt and the world. Here you'll find the most discerning links to up-to-date news and entertainment in English and Arabic -- if it's important and about Egypt on the net, we'll find it for you first every single time.
Pre-Tuesday blues
Here are five examples of some of the most interesting writing on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict on the net -- before the September 11 attacks. Find out what Samuel Berger, Robert Fisk, Jim Hoagland and others had to say about Durban, Sharon, US involvement and CNN coverage.
All the stories make clear that there was something missing in US foreign policy, especially regarding the crisis in the Middle East. Did that have anything to do with what happened on Black Tuesday?
It may be interesting to read these now, and reflect on a question like that, as well as wonder how much things have now changed...
Getting Washington more involved
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The Washington Post's Jim Hoagland, a steadfast supporter of Israel, devoted a recent column to the US and Israeli walkout of the UN Racism Conference in Durban, South Africa. "There must be a better way to win friends and influence nations than walking out of conferences, denouncing treaties or sitting on your hands while the Middle East burns," Hoagland writes.
Arguing that the Bush administration -- by adopting a foreign policy mantra of "my way or the highway" -- is leaving vacuums that other powers are scurrying to "fill -- or exploit", Hoagland urges the president and his team to heed "that old adage -- the one that holds that those who are absent always lose the argument."
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Meanwhile, Samuel Berger, former president Bill Clinton's National Security Advisor, also uses the Post as his platform to urge the US to get more involved in the Middle East conflict. "The deepening conflict in the Middle East is neither self-containing nor self-correcting. It threatens to radicalize the region, with far-reaching consequences for the United States. Eleven months of unremitting violence has created a breadth of bitterness among Israelis and Palestinians that cripples their ability to break this death grip themselves," Berger writes.
Wake up, America
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Meanwhile, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel presents readers with a very strange proposal regarding Middle East peace. The paper's editorial recently urged Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to make the Palestinians the same "unprecedented, heroic " offer Barak made at Camp David. It seems to have escaped the paper's notice that recent revelations by Clinton's Middle East policy aide Robert Malley have made clear that Barak did not make any such generous offer at Camp David, and that it was in fact Barak and not Arafat who Clinton was most frustrated with at the northern Maryland resort last summer. The editorial makes it clear that the record still needs to be set more straight in the United States regarding the falsity of the Camp David "generous offer" myth, especially considering that it is precisely that myth which has driven much of the negative publicity in the Western press against the Palestinians during the current intifada.
Sharon revisited
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Here, Neve Gordon, who teaches politics at Israel's Ben Gurion University, tells Sharon's story in The Nation the way Arab leaders do -- describing Sharon as a menace to his own society, a politician with no clear or logical political agenda, who has not only not kept the promises he made Israelis about bringing them security, but also seems set to drag them into a longer and more dangerous conflict with regional consequences.
When settlers are not called settlers
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The headline says it best -- "CNN caves in to Israel over its references to illegal settlements"...
The Independent's Robert Fisk continues to
document the Western media's unfortunate bowing down to Israeli pressure regarding its reporting on the Intifada. In this case, Fisk describes CNN's blatantly incorrect decision not to call Israeli settlers at Beit Jala settlers, even though the place was "illegally annexed by Israel after the 1967 war not just "occupied" as CNN wishes its viewers to believe and far from being a "neighborhood on the outskirts of Jerusalem", it was built on land which Israel again illegally used to extend the boundaries of Jerusalem."
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