Richard Falk, veteran radical international scholar, writes on Defining a Just War: 'The destruction of both the Taliban regime and the Al Qaeda network are appropriate goals. ... (But) the justice of the cause and of the limited ends will be negated by the injustice of improper means and excessive ends.'
Sandra Halperin analyses The Post-Cold War political topography of the Middle East: 'Islamists are not champions of Palestinian nationalism or of any Arab nationalist cause. Their cause - the expulsion of Jews and Christians from the Middle East - is fundamentally incompatible with Palestinian nationalism.' Martin Shaw calls for Justice for the Victims of Massacre and War - texts of two speeches to the recent Sussex meeting on the war; a full audio version will soon be available on the site
New at www.theglobalsite.ac.uk/middleeast:
comprehensive links to Afghanistan issues through Educational Resources Focusing on Afghanistan and the Islamic World, and other sources
And at www.theglobalsite.ac.uk/times,
Eric Herring responded on John Pilger's website to Martin Shaw's review of Pilger's 2000 TV film on Iraq. Shaw's reply, Fallout from an earlier war, is now online, and resonates with issues of the new war.