Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. XLVIII

No 13

28-March-2005

Political Comment (28 March 2005)

Bomb attacks in Christian areas in Lebanon have escalated the countrys political crisis. Israel is stepping up settlement activity in the West Bank. Nothing much happened at the Arab summit in Algiers.

Bomb Attacks Deepen Lebanese Crisis

Whoever was behind the bomb attacks on 19 and 23 March on Christian targets in and around Beirut (and there are any number of candidates), if their objective was to...