VOL. XLIII

No. 47

20 November 2000

The Political Scene

The Islamic summit in Qatar produced nothing tangible in the way of support for the Palestinians and the al-Aqsa intifada, but did provide a venue for some developments on the Iraqi front. Egypts parliamentary elections, its most transparent to date, were something of a setback for the ruling National Democratic Party. The polite fiction that the US is an honest broker in the Middle East is wearing ever thinner.

The OIC Summit

If the...