The PHRC's Week In Review
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  Who can say 'yes' to the Geneva Accord?
  Palestinian poet Fadwa Tuqan dies
Fadwa Tuqan, revered among her compatriots as the "Poet of Palestine", died on Friday in her West Bank hometown of Nablus at the age of 86.
 
  Palestinians agree to a conditional ceasefire in Israel
Representatives of 13 Palestinian militias agreed in Cairo yesterday to suspend suicide bombings inside Israel, but were divided over whether to offer a more comprehensive ceasefire that would stop attacks on soldiers and settlers in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
 
 
 
 
What the Middle East needs, we are told, is democracy. Even George Bush seems convinced that after “60 years of Western nations excusing and accommodating the lack of freedom in the Middle East”, democracy is an idea whose time has come; is the Geneva Accord, though, the ticket to this long road to democracy? Maher Mughrabi examines the question.
 
   
 
  To negotiate, Palestinians need free polls
 
 
There is a problem in a country’s political system when it can say it has experienced five successive governments within the space of a year. The advent of Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei’s second government earlier this month must now bring the Palestinian people face to face with the crisis endemic in their system. Mustafa Barghouthi reflects on the dire situation.
 
   
 
  Israel trains US assassination squads in Iraq
 
 
Israeli advisers are helping train US special forces in aggressive counter-insurgency operations in Iraq, including the use of assassination squads against guerrilla leaders, US intelligence and military sources said yesterday.
       
 
  World court ruling sought on Israel fence
 
 
Israel came under fresh pressure to dismantle its security fence in the West Bank after the United Nations General Assembly voted in emergency session last night to ask the International Court of Justice to rule on its legality.
       
 
  The minutiae of racism
 
 
Azmi Bishara examines the roots, and effects, of anti-Semitism
         
       
 

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