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LEBANON: Hezbollah Unleashes a Coup Bid
By Mona Alami
BEIRUT - Men clad in black have roamed the streets of Beirut since Wednesday, their faces covered with ski masks or dark kaffiya, as they wreaked havoc in the large avenues leading to the airport or dividing Sunni and Shia areas. As darkness loomed over Lebanon, the winds of discord seem to set the Lebanese capital ablaze.
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MIDEAST: Israelis Believe Another War Is Coming
Analysis by Peter Hirschberg
JERUSALEM - As Israel marks its 60th anniversary, Israelis are deeply pessimistic about the prospects of peace with their neighbours, with an overwhelming majority believing they will be at war again within the next five years.
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MIDEAST: Villagers Fight for Promised Land
By Zack Baddorf
BI'LIN, The West Bank - Some 1,700 Palestinians in the West Bank village of Bi'lin have been promised land, but so far it has not been delivered.
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LEBANON: Al-Qaeda on a Slippery Base
By Mona Alami
BEIRUT - Al-Qaeda's second-in-command, Ayman Zawahiri, announced in an audiotape broadcast Apr. 21 that Islamic groups would play a pivotal role in the war against Jews, and encouraged militants to expel invading 'Crusaders' masquerading as peacekeepers, referring to UNIFIL troops deployed in South Lebanon.
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EGYPT: Salary Hike Kills Strike
By Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa al-Omrani
CAIRO - Calls for a nationwide protest against the rising cost of living ended in anticlimax on Sunday (May 4), with most Egyptians going to work as usual. Although protest leaders had urged the public to register its disaffection en masse by staying home, the streets of the capital were busy.
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MIDEAST: Egypt Braces for New Gaza Influx
By Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa al-Omrani
CAIRO - With next-door Gaza Strip in a humanitarian crisis, the government is desperate to avoid a repeat of January's Palestinian influx into the Sinai Peninsula. In recent weeks, the security presence along Egypt's 14-kilometre border with the hapless territory has been significantly reinforced.
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MIDEAST: Too Quiet in the Harbour
By Mohammed Omer
GAZA CITY - It's been strangely quiet for some time at the port in Gaza. No clanging of hooks, no sounds of creaking cranes or of thumping of nets upon decks. Boat engines, normally puttering and spewing exhaust, lie entombed under covers.
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LEBANON: Wobbling In Uncertainty
Analysis by Mona Alami
BEIRUT - As clashes between supporters of Lebanon's feuding factions become increasingly frequent, Lebanon seems to be walking a fine line between stability and violence.
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POLITICS: Washington Cool on New Israel-Syria Talks
Analysis by Khody Akhavi
WASHINGTON - Amid regional fears of a summer war between Israel and Syria, the two countries may in fact be inching closer to a deal. Not even President George W. Bush's recent disclosures to Congress, intended to prove Syrian-North Korean nuclear cooperation, appear able to dent the resolve for peace, or at the very least, a reduction in tensions.
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EGYPT: New Strike to Greet Mubarak
By Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa al-Omrani
CAIRO - Hundreds remain in detention following a nationwide protest Apr. 6 against rising food prices and political stagnation. But this has not deterred activists from calling for a second general strike on May 4, timed to coincide with President Hosni Mubarak's birthday.
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CANADA: Jewish Defence League Energised by Israel's Far Right
By Paul Weinberg
TORONTO - Like an aging group of retro rocker musicians, the Jewish Defence League (JDL) resurfaced in Toronto recently after a decade of dormancy, trying to look a little more mainstream.
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LEBANON: Hate the U.S., And Head For It
By Mona Alami
BEIRUT - The growing rift between the U.S. and Iran has spread also to Lebanese soil, with Shia youngsters frequently seen burning U.S. flags. But ironically, for many of Hezbollah's Shia constituency, the U.S. is home.
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US/MIDEAST: Palestinian Negotiators Go Home Frustrated
By Khody Akhavi
WASHINGTON - Five months after the U.S. hosted the Annapolis conference to push for a decisive Israeli-Palestinian peace, negotiations between the two sides have shown no visible progress.
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In addition to the historically unbridgeable divide between Israel and the Palestinians, a split is broadening between the militant Hamas and the relatively moderate Fatah groups on the Palestinian side. Israel faces its own internal disagreements on such issues as Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank. And with every opening divide, trouble in the region escalates. IPS correspondents provide the big-picture perspective on the Middle East.