VOL. XLIV

No 47

19 November 2001

The Political Scene

In what is judged to be adevelopment of some importance, at least by regional standards, PresidentGeorge Bush has named the proposed Palestinian state as Palestine. FrenchPresident Jacques Chirac has joined Egyptian President Husni Mubarak in warningthe US against widening the war against terrorism to include Iraq, and theissue of whether the Lebanese group Hizbollah should be designated as terroristis also creating differences within...