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Table of Contents
Editorial

UP FRONT
Financing Terrorism or Survival? Informal Finance and State Collapse in Somalia, and the US War on Terrorism
    Khalid M. Medani

Kuwait’s Economic Quandary
    Karen Pfeifer

Mauritanian Activists’ Struggle Against Slavery
    Alice Bullard

ARTICLES
Interregnum: Palestine After Operation Defensive Shield
    Rema Hammami

Postmortem of a Compassionate Checkpoint
    Peter Lagerquist

Grave Breaches: A View from Jenin and Nablus
    Kathleen Cavanaugh and Jamil Dakwar

There Are Many Reasons Why: Suicide Bombers and Martyrs in Palestine
    Lori Allen

The Shrinking Space of Citizenship: Ethnocratic Politics in Israel
    Oren Yiftachel

Pappé Faces Down Prosecution
    Rebecca L. Stein

Donning the Uniform: The Military and the Media in Israel
    Ilan Pappé

My Hairdresser Is a Sniper
    Shira Robinson

SPECIAL SECTION: ISRAEL AND PALESTINE IN THE US ARENA
For Zion’s Sake
    Don Wagner

The Analogy to Apartheid
    Ian Urbina

REVIEW ESSAY
The US Media, Samuel Huntington and September 11
    Ervand Abrahamian