MER Article Hamas Risen On January 27, 2006, Fatah activists and Palestinian security personnel converged on the Palestinian Authority’s parliament building in Gaza City. Within minutes, cars were torched, tires set aflame and stones thrown at election banners displaying the visages of victorious Hamas candidates. The cry Graham Usher • 21 min read
MER Article From the Editor (Spring 2006) The ocean of ink spilled after the remarkable success of Hamas in January’s Palestinian Legislative Council elections has drowned a few salient facts. The Editors • 3 min read
MER Article Editor's Picks (Winter 2005) Burke, Jason. Al-Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam (London: Penguin, 2004). Brecher, Jeremy, Jill Cutler and Brendan Smith, eds. In the Name of Democracy: American War Crimes in Iraq and Beyond (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2005). Dajani, Souad. The Untold Story: The Cost of Israel’s Occupat The Editors • 1 min read
MER Article Crime and Punishment on Israel's Demographic Frontier On August 4, 2005, Natan Zada, 19, boarded an Egged bus at Haifa’s Hamifratz station, picked a seat in the back and rode it into Shafa ‘Amr, a mixed Druze, Muslim and Christian town in the heart of the Arab Galilee. Zada wore his Israel Defense Forces uniform and, as prescribed, carried with him his Jonathan Cook • 25 min read
