VOL. XLIV

No 52

24/31 December 2001

Arab Columnists On 11September Aftermath

(MEES Translations)

The following column by Ziad AbuZiad (Minister of State in the Palestinian Authority) entitled "StraightTalking" was published in the Jerusalem edition of the daily al-Qudson 6 December:

We should realize above all elsethat we and they are staying here, no matter how much more intense the conflictbecomes or how much greater the hardship gets on both sides. Neither is able toremove the other. At the...