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COVER STORY: Arafat�s Wasteland
After four decades of Yasser Arafat�s one-man rule, many Palestinians no longer believe in the dream of having a state of their own. Nor are the refugees any closer to returning home. In the end, they say, the Palestinian symbol proved as powerless as they are. A people lost in no-man�s land. More...

Palestinian Affairs: Boom Town
The West Bank �capital� of Ramallah is moving on from the intifada, but some Palestinians fret over the meaning of the cultural and commercial awakening. More...

Qassam City
Caught between Hamas, the PA and Israel, the rural Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanun suffers as the militants� preferred rocket-launching pad More...

Palestinian Affairs: Palestinian Peace Now
While the Gaza Strip melts into chaos, Sari Nusseibeh�s orderly People�s Campaign for peace and nonviolence is gaining surprising support among grass-roots Fatah leaders in the West Bank More...

Palestinian Affairs: Death of an Intifada
In the West Bank city of Tul Karm, everyone from Yasser Arafat�s governor to the remnants of the Al-Aqsa Brigades says the Palestinian uprising is as good as over More...

Palestinian Affairs: The Fence Mender
Baruch Spiegel has been hired by the Defense Minister to try to find the balance between Palestinian humanitarian needs and protecting Israel against Hamas More...

Palestinian Affairs: Zoned Out
In the tiny West Bank enclave of Khirbet Jubara, between the fence and the Green Line, residents scoff at Israel�s security effort More...

Palestinian Affairs: Returning to Reality
Is a resolution of the fifty-five-year-old Palestinian refugee problem finally in sight? More...

The Back Page: With a Deal Like This in 1967, �We Would Have Danced in the Streets�
In mid-October, a group of Israelis and Palestinians finalized an unofficial draft for a peace agreement sponsored by the Swiss Foreign Ministry and dubbed the "Geneva Accord." The Israelis, including Oslo architect Yossi Beilin and author Amos Oz -- all from the political left and all acting independently of the government -- say the accord disproves the widely held belief that there is no Palestinian partner for peace. More...

Palestinian Affairs: Next Christmas in Bethlehem?
Weeks after the Israeli army pulled out of the city, everyone from the mayor to the butcher is still waiting to feel the change More...

Palestinian Affairs: The Old-New Guard
Abu Ala joins forces with former rival Abu Mazen. Can they bring peace and democracy? More...

Palestinian Affairs: The Pinstripe Revolution
Arafat�s Finance Minister Salam Fayyad is determined to turn the PA into a paragon of transparency and clean governance. But can he keep his boss in check? More...

Palestinian Affairs: Saving Kawasbeh
In the topsy-turvy world of one Jerusalem hospital, a brilliant Israeli surgeon, famed for trauma work on victims of terrorist bombings,has taken on as a project the treatment of a gravely injured Palestinian, shot during the siege of the Church of the Nativity More...

Palestinian Affairs: Blessings & Bombs
In the run-up to the Israeli elections, Yasser Arafat prays for Mitzna and leaves Hamas to its murderous wont More...

Palestinian Affairs: In Limbo
East Jerusalem Arabs, largely on the sidelines in this intifada, are caught between the PA and the Israeli government. More...

Palestinian Affairs: The Refugees� Choice?
Critics accuse UNRWA of perpetuating the Palestinian refugee problem and abetting terror. Israeli officials say everyone would be much worse off without it. Has the 50-year-old mission gone right or wrong? More...

Palestinian Affairs: The Ninth Life
Can Yasser Arafat, the ultimate survivor, survive? More...

Death Wish
Can Bush�s call for new leadership, and the growing Palestinian alarm at the culture of suicide bombing, stop the carnage? More...

Arafat�s Reform School
Even Hamas is getting in on the reform act, but the Palestinian proponents of political change don�t have high hopes. More...

Calling the Shots
The Fatah Tanzim militiamen, buoyed by their recent �triumphs� against Israel, inspire both admiration and fear More...

The Amazing Rise of Marwan Barghouti
Emerging from relative obscurity before the intifada, the Tanzim head is now being touted as a potential leader in a post-Arafat era. He and his militant 'young guard' have served notice to the PLO's founding fathers. More...

Still Juggling
Khaled Abu Toameh Ramallah More...

Hamas Attempts to Take Control
Behind the semblance of Palestinian "national unity," and despite displays of solidarity between the various factions, there is a crucial debate under way on the future of the intifada.. More...

From Beirut to Bethlehem
The metamorphosis of Manger Square underlines the havoc wreaked by the intifada in the �cradle of Christianity� More...

Life on the Line
The murder of a Jewish customer in the market straddlingArab-Israeli Baqa al-Gharbiya and the Palestinian Authority-controlled Baqa al-Sharqiya raises familiar questions about a divided future More...

Cultural Revolution
Al-Quds University president Sari Nusseibeh takes a bold stand against a longstanding Palestinian boycott of academic cooperation with Israel More...

Anatomy of Rage
With no defined goals and no clear leadership, the intifada has come to mean very different things to different Palestinians More...

�The Patriotic Thing to Do�
In Ramallah, bullets have become part of the popular culture while PLO veteran Bassam Abu Sharif resumes the role of harbinger of peace More...

One Step Away from Chaos
The radical transformation of Muhammad Dahlan reflects a wider process as Arafat�s Palestinian Authority unravels into potential anarchy More...

The Arafat Enigma
Leading Palestinians now say that the Tanzim militia�s use of firearms is a grave tactical error. So why has the shooting gone on? More...

Militia King
Popular hero Marwan Barghouti, the head of Fatah�s armed wing, may yet present a threat to Arafat More...

Long-term Lessons in Peace
(October 10, 2000) Beyond the controversy over textbook content, Israeli and Palestinian peace educators have been creating unique curriculum enrichment programs to try to change the conflict mentality of the next generation More...