Daily Telegraph

1) Editorial: Why Afghans are starving

 http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk/dt?ac=006374655409997&rtmo=rQDE3FrX&atmo=rrrrrrrq&pg=/01/10/24/dl02.html

2) Self doubt has no place in the West's war on terror, by Janet Daley  http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk/dt?ac=006374655409997&rtmo=0KJG2req&atmo=rrrrrrrq&pg=/01/10/24/do02.html

extracts: "PERHAPS we don't know how to talk war any more" - would not bother reading this but it is a good example of how to waffle off 1000 words and say nothing.

Financial Times

1) The Afghan Alternative, by John Thornhill

 http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT35MXL06TC&live=true

2) Dialogue is the only path to peace, By James Barker

 http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3HC0426TC&live=true

As Israel retaliates, the cycle of violence will once again repeat itself. Some will argue, wrongly, that Zeevi's killing was tit for tat because the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) had had its own leader killed by Israeli action in August. There is no equivalence between killing someone planning terrorist actions and killing someone simply articulating controversial views. But targeted killings move in the direction of escalating, not just perpetuating, the cycle of violence.

The Guardian
1) Know thine enemy, by Matthew Engel
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,579729,00.html

2) Say it loud: no more support until Israel agrees to pull out, by Polly Toynbee

 http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,579744,00.html
"The race-biased, them-and-us reporting of Israel/Palestine conflict works both ways. Consider the media coverage of death - how western audiences are invited to feel the agony of Israeli teenagers slaughtered in a disco or two poor 14-year-old Israeli boys bludgeoned to death in a cave, as if they were our own children. Palestinian deaths are rarely made so graphic or memorable: they are anonymous people, counted as numbers, bodies aloft among depersonalised funeral crowds."

(an excellent piece on the whole)

3) Editorial: Defining the challenge; who asked Mr. Bush to 'save civilisation?'  http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,579762,00.html

Mr Bush has authorised the CIA to assassinate Bin Laden and his supporters without even a pretence at judicial process or the most disingenuous nod to international law. Having condemned Israel's indefensible policy of killing Palestinians it suspects of terrorist activity, Mr Bush is now blithely following Ariel Sharon down that self-defeating path. Even loyal Tony Blair has distanced himself from this latest over-reaching.


Independent

A commentary by Anne McElvoy entitled "Why Demand The Endgame When The War's Barely Begun?"

 http://argument.independent.co.uk/regular_columnists/anne_mcelvoy/story.jsp? story=101114


International Herald Tribune
1) Washington Post Editorial: Hazy Afghan future  http://www.iht.com/articles/36620.html

2) A memo Bush should send to Sharon and Arafat, by Thomas L. Friedman (New York Times)
 http://www.iht.com/articles/36635.html

The Times

1) From Ballymurphy to Osama bin Laden, by Simon Jenkins
 http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,248-2001370471,00.html
But then there is no limit to double standards. Last week I heard the former Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Barak, ask an interviewer the difference between Israelis using guns and bombs to kill those harbouring suicide bombers in Palestine and the Americans and British doing the same in Afghanistan. Israel stood accused of causing innocent deaths and ignoring diplomacy. How, he asked, could George Bush and Tony Blair tell Israel to get its tanks out of Hebron when their response to suicide bombing was to blast the entire Afghan infrastructure, forcing hundreds of thousands to flee for their lives? There is no answer to this. An eye for an eye knows no relativity. Seen this way, in Afghanistan, Israel and Northern Ireland, any response that is less than commensurate with the crime is "doing nothing".

Only after time, after blood for blood, is argument allowed. Even then responses are conditioned by geography. In Northern Ireland and Israel, America may be the party of "apeacement", but when terrorism strikes at
home, only retribution will suffice.