TITLE

Other People's Mail

AUTHOR(S)

McDonnell, Pat; Minadeo, Halina; Reik, Miriam M.; Arntuffus, David; Joerger, Hank; Dowden, Patricia; Martin, Gilbert; Lindley, Arthur; Fier, Philip; Varzi, Hamid; Hollen, Chris van; Ferriss, Richard S.

PUB. DATE

March 2006

SOURCE

Washington Report on Middle East Affairs;Mar2006, Vol. 25 Issue 2, p71

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Letter

ABSTRACT

The article presents several letters related to the politics and government in the Middle East. The media are lamenting prime minister Ariel Sharon's massive stroke as a blow to the Palestinian-Israeli peace process. Sharon's much-ballyhooed pullout of illegal Israeli settlers in Gaza has done nothing for the Palestinians. It was a manipulation to contain the Palestinians in an open-air prison. Rather than respond to criticism of the war in Iraq on its merits, Robert Collins (December 1, 2005 letter) falls back on the same tired, intellectually bankrupt accusation: Those who oppose the war simply do so because they hate president of the U.S. George W. Bush.

ACCESSION #

19548953

Tags: MIDDLE East -- Politics & government -- 1979-;  ARAB-Israeli conflict -- 1993-;  IRAQ War, 2003-2011

 

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