http://uk.oneworld.net/article/archive/9226 en_GB_uk http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/138809/1/9226 Simple common sense is enough, believes peace activist Uri Avnery, to draw peaceful conclusions from the results of this war. The army is not invincible and Israel would do better talking with its neighbours. This is the simple message Averny hopes Israeli politicians will now take seriously. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/74293 Follow the money, if you want to find the causes of conflict in the Middle East, advises investigative journalist Greg Palast. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/74217 George Monbiot examines the relationship between the arms trade and the crisis in the Middle East. He says, "Mark Thomas, the stand-up comedian, has done more to expose illegal arms deals than the Ministry of Defence, the Export Control Organisation and HM Revenue and Customs put together." http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/74162 In the next few weeks, a new secretary general of the United Nations will be chosen by the security council. Salim Lone believes that a possible candidate, Shashi Tharoor, could strengthen the UN's ability to be a more effective player. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/74070 If fundamentalism thrives on fear and perceived injustice, can the political debate afford to ignore the conditions faced by Muslims locally and globally? Gary Younge in the UK's Guardian newspaper argues that facing the crisis caused by the war on terror is not indulgent but intelligent. http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/138048/1/9226 Daniel Nelson The balance of power is not based on political friendships but strategic alliances. Has Israel's latest performance stimulated a rethink in Washington? Daniel Nelson considers the question. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/74161 Noam Chomsky explains the role of the UN as an international peacekeeper. "The Security Council acts within constraints set by the great powers, primarily the United States, by virtue of its enormous power", he says. But there is still a role for ordinary people in his world view. "Popular forces could make a substantial difference", he believes. http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/137907/1/9226 Thirty-three days of war. On the Israeli side: 154 dead - 117 of them soldiers. On the Lebanese side: about a thousand dead civilians, thousands wounded. An unknown number of Hezbollah fighters dead and wounded. More than a million refugees on both sides. So what has been achieved for this terrible price, asks Uri Avnery. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/74007 Israel’s absolute power of deterrence is over, according to MIFTAH’s Editor. This Palestinian initiative for democracy thinks the war has marked a watershed in Israel's position in the Middle East. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/74002 If Israelis had faced an enemy like Hezbullah in 1948, the outcome of its War of Independence might have been different, says Charles Glass in the London Review of Books. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/73986 President Bashar al-Assad states simply: the Lebanese Hezbollah guerrilla army has, in effect, won this round of its war with Israel. This, according to Robert Fisk of the Independent, is the simple truth. And the truth, according to him is something that no other Arab leader has chosen to speak in these past five weeks. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/73970 George Monbiot in the Guardian asks, who loses from this war? According to him it's the people of Lebanon and northern Israel. But not Hizbullah, who are now proclaimed as heroes in Muslim nations across the Middle East. Not Bush or Blair, for whom every attack by terrorists is a further vindication of their war on terror. And not the Israel Defence Forces who can now demand more resources and greater powers. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/73957 The real war in Lebanon begins as the ceasefire takes effect, writes Robert Fisk of the UK's Independent newspaper. He believes that Israel is now facing the harshest guerrilla war in its history and that they might well lose.