International Socialist Review

Issue 27:
January–February 2003

IMPERIALISM: Washington's gamble for a new Middle East

CONTENTS

EDITORIALS

Washington's war on the world
No mandate for Bush's war at home
Affirmative action: We won't go back

NEWS & REPORTS

Venezuela: Yet another bosses' strike • Another left turn in Latin America • A settlement forced on the union (interview with U.S. dockworkers) • NO to a Europe of War and Capital • Italy: Prelude to a "hot" winter? • Haiti: Class analysis of a crisis FEATURES

Imperialism: Washington's gamble for a new Middle East
by Phil Gasper

The "secret" war on Iraq
by John Pilger

The U.S. develops new weapons of mass destruction
by Phil Gasper

Two views from Palestine
Eric Ruder interviews Toufic Haddad and Tikva Honig-Parnass

International law: Illusion and Reality
by Bill Keach

Health care's deadly crisis
by Helen Redmond

For a national health system
Interview with Quentin Young

The powerlessness of anti-power
Paul D'Amato reviews John Holloway's Change the world without taking power

The Comintern: Mass parties and the International
last in a three part series by Duncan Hallas

REVIEWS: King George's court historian • Strangling Iraq • War for oil, not liberation • American theory, Nazi practice • History of Argentina • Doing justice to Richard Wright's work

Between the Lines: Israel, the Palestinians, and the U.S. "War on Terror." Available from Haymarket Books.

Readings on Zionism, Israel, and the Palestinians

The siege of Gaza
Hadas Thier

Zionism: False Messiah
Lance Selfa

The hidden history of Zionism
Annie Zirin

Zionism and anti-semitism: Are Israel's critics anti-semites?
Hadas Thier

Israel and the Nakba: Chronicle of dispossession
Paul D'Amato

Planning the terror that created Israel
Mostafa Omar

Israel: The Watchdog State
Lance Selfa

Israel: Colonial settler state
Phil Gasper

The Watchdog bites
Phil Gasper

The class character of Israel (reprint)
Moshe Machover

Israel, the “lobby,” and the United States
Sherry Wolf

Ariel Sharon, war criminal
Hadas Thier

Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon
Hadas Thier

Arafat's Legacy
Snehal Shingavi

Israel, war, and the future of the Intifada: Two views from Palestine
Toufic Haddad and Tikva Honig-Parnass

Lies, damn lies, and Israeli propanganda
Anthony Arnove and Paul D'Amato

Walling in the Palestinians
Ida Audeh

Israel: Gearing up for a new offensive?
Toufic Haddad

Iraq, Palestine, and U.S. Imperialism
Toufic Haddad

U.S. intervention in the Middle East: Blood for oil
Paul D'Amato

End of the Road Map
Toufic Haddad

Intifada from the Inside
Toufic Haddad

The destruction of Lebanon: “Birthpangs of a new Middle East”
Toufic Haddad

Crisis of the Palestinian national movement
Toufic Haddad

The one-state solution
Dennis Kosuth