MER Article Carving Up the Capital Samera remembers a time, during the tumultuous and violent years of the first intifada (1987-1993), when her Jerusalem was a place quite different than it is today. Though tens of thousands of Palestinians under Israeli occupation were imprisoned in those years, many of them tortured, a measure of h Thomas Abowd • 16 min read
MER Article The Challenge to the Two-State Solution Ariel Sharon's push for unilateral Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and four forlorn West Bank settlements in the spring of 2004 came after a year of mounting criticism inside and outside Israel that he had no long-term "solution" for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. As Gary Sussman • 20 min read
MER Article Pakistani Islamists Gamble on the General In January 2002, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, who seized control of the Pakistani government in a 1999 military coup, delivered a major address to the nation—and to the world at large. Mindful of Pakistan’s designation by the global media as a crucial front in the US “war on terrorism,” Musharraf promised Kamran Asdar Ali • 14 min read
MER Article From the Editors (Summer 2004) Israel's bloody military campaign in Rafah in May was but the latest blow to the infrastructure of Palestinian society in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip since the fall of 2000. It has been clear for some time that these assaults, coupled with the contemporaneous expansion of The Editors • 3 min read
