Jewish-Arab-relations
My Country Needs Me
November 1, 2006
November 1, 2006
With the midterm elections fast approaching, the panic over Iraq seems more intense than ever. That country, the thinking goes, is a hopeless mess, and there could be a precipitous American withdrawal, especially if the...
Freedom Fighter
May 16, 2005
They killed Mithal Al-Alusi’s sons, but he won’t stop. He believes truth and freedom are too precious. Al-Alusi is the founder of the nine-month-old Democratic Party of the Iraqi Nation (DPIN), a grassroots political party that...
Iraqi Politician’s Support for Israel Costs Him Dearly, But He Presses On
May 9, 2005
May 9, 2005
For daring to visit Israel, Mithal Al-Alusi has paid with more than his life: It cost him his two sons.
A Sunni Moslem who founded the Democratic Party of the Iraqi Nation, or DPIN, Al-Alusi believes the new Iraq should defy...