Year
In Review - 2002
Selected news and commentary
Columnists of the Year
Sites of the Year
A highly subjective list of some of the most important and interesting articles, speeches and reports published 2002.
January 2002
February 2002
March 2002
April 2002
May 2002
June 2002
July 2002
August 2002
September 2002
October 2002
November 2002
December 2002
Main events
The Karine A Affair [2002/01/05]
Camp X-Ray [2002/01/20]
President Bush's State of the Union Address [2002/01/29]
"What
the hell are you doing in OUR name Mister Blair?"
(The Mirror, 2002/01/21)
Selected news and commentary
"Blaming America First" (Todd Gitlin, MotherJones, 2002/01/08)
"Ship Of Truth" (Charles Krauthammer, The Washington Post, 2002/01/11)
"Denial: A River in Egypt" (Daniel Pipes and Jonathan Schanzer, New York Post/danielpipes.org, 2002/01/14)
"Occidentalism" (Avishai Margalit and Ian Buruma, The New York Review of Books, from the 2002/01/17 issue)
"Ten Days in September" (Bob Woodward and Dan Balz, The Washington Post, 2002/01/27 - 2002/02/03)
"What Went Wrong?" (Bernard Lewis, The Atlantic, from the January 2002 issue)
"President Delivers State of the Union Address" (The White House, 2002/01/29)
Main events
The Saudi Peace Plan [2002/02/17]
The filmed execution of Daniel Pearl [2002/02/22]
"Daniel
Pearl, RIP"
(The
Wall Street Journal, 2002/02/22)
Selected news and commentary
"Creatures of the cultural cringe" (Theodore Dalrymple, The Spectator, from the 2002/02/02 issue)
"Stability, America's Enemy" (Ralph Peters, Parameters, from the Winter 2001-02 issue)
"On the right side of history" (Mark Steyn, The Spectator, from the 2002/02/23 issue)
"The Chosen One" (Michael Kamber, The Village Voice, 2002/02/25)
Main events
Escalation of the Middle East conflict [2002/03/05]
The Passover Massacre [2002/03/27]
Meyssan's "The Appalling Imposture" bestseller in France [2002/03/30]
"Tribute
in Light, New York City, New York"
(Rafael Macia/Photo Researchers, 2002/03/11)
Selected news and commentary
"A Modest Proposal From the Brigadier" (Peter Landesman, The Atlantic, from the March 2002 issue)
"No more Mr. Nice Guy" (Martin Walker, UPI, 2001/03/11)
"Saudi Government Daily: Jews Use Teenagers' Blood for 'Purim' Pastries" (Special Dispatch No. 354, MEMRI, 2002/03/13)
"Can There Be a Decent Left?" (Michael Walzer, Dissent magazine, from the Spring 2002 issue)
"The Great Terror" (Jeffrey Goldberg, The New Yorker, from the 2002/03/25 issue)
"The slyer virus: The West's anti-westernism" (Mark Steyn, The New Criterion, from the February 2002 issue)
Main events
Documents link the Palestinian Authority with terrorism [2002/04/02]
The siege in Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity [2002/04/03]
The Battle of Jenin [2002/04/09]
Suicide attack at a Tunisian synagogue kills 19 [2002/04/11]
The United Nations Human Rights Commission endorses Palestinian terrorism[2002/04/16]
!["Surely they don't want to kill me again?" [La Stampa, April 2002]](pics/vignetta_stampa_small.jpg)
Front-page
cartoon in La Stampa
(La Stampa, April 2002)
Baby Jesus: "Surely they don't want to kill me again?"
Selected news and commentary
"Promises but Never Peace" (Michael Kelly, The Washington Post, 2002/04/03)
"Among the Bourgeoisophobes" (David Brooks, The Weekly Standard, from the 2002/04/15 issue)
"'Second Holocaust,' Roth’s Invention, Isn't Novelistic" (Ron Rosenbaum, The New York Observer, 2002/04/15)
"Liberte, Egalite, Judeophobie - Why Le Pen is the least of France's problems" (Christopher Caldwell, The Weekly Standard, from the 2002/05/06 issue)
"Jenin's War Criminals" (Jerome Marcus, IMRA/The Wall Street Journal, 2002/04/30)
Main events
The murder of Pim Fortuyn [2002/05/06]
Escalated conflict between India and Pakistan over Kashmir [2002/05/10]
"Love it or leave it - Pakistan's
Nuclear Dream"
(Piers Benatar, panos pictures, Winter 2002)
Selected news and commentary
"Columnist for Egyptian Government Daily to Hitler: 'If Only You Had Done It, Brother'" (MEMRI, SD# 375, 2002/05/02)
"The Battle of Jenin" (Matt Rees, TIME, 2002/05/06)
"Muslim Anti-Semitism: A Clear and Present Danger" (Robert S. Wistrich, The American Jewish Committe, April 2002)
"Tales of the Tyrant" (Mark Bowden, The Atlantic, from the May 2002 issue)
"The Involvement of Arafat, PA Senior Officials and Apparatuses in Terrorism against Israel, Corruption and Crime" (Dani Naveh et al., M.F.A, 2002/05/08 [?])
"Part One: Documenting the Myth", "Analysis: Why Europeans bought Jenin myth", "How Europe's media lost out" (Martin Sieff, UPI, 2002/05/20-22)
"Bigotry in Print. Crowds Chant Murder. Something's Changed." (Paul Berman, Forward, from the 2002/05/24 issue)
"How the FBI Blew the Case" (Romesh Ratnesar and Michael Weisskopf, TIME, 2002/05/25)
"Fighting to Live as the Towers Died" (Jim Dwyer et al., The New York Times, 2002/05/26)
"The September 11 X-Files" (David Corn, The Nation, 2002/05/30)
"The Ideological War Within the West" (John Fonte, Foreign Policy Research Institute, May 2002)
"What War?" (Angelo M. Codevilla, Claremont Review of Books, from the Spring 2002 issue)
Main events
President Bush outlines doctrine of pre-emption [2002/06/01]
President Bush calls for new Palestinian leadership [2002/06/24]
"'Baby
bomber photo' shocks Israel"
(BBC News, 2002/06/28)
Selected news and commentary
"Face to Face With a Terrorist" (Brian Ross, ABC News, 2002/06/06)
"Power and Weakness" (Robert Kagan, Policy Review, from the June & July 2002 issue)
"Jihad 101" (Martin Kramer, Middle East Quarterly, from the Spring 2002 issue)
"Arafat Bombs, Europe Pays" (Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff and Bruno Schirra, Shark Blog/Die Zeit, 2002/06/12)
"The Baby Face of Hate" (David Tell, The Weekly Standard, 2002/06/12)
"Does Poverty Cause Terrorism?" (Alan B. Krueger & Jitka Maleckova, The New Republic, 2002/06/20)
"Iraq's tortured children" (John Sweeney, BBC News, 2002/06/22)
Main events
John Walker Lindh pleads guilty [2002/07/15]
President Bush presents National Strategy [2002/07/16]
An Israeli air strike in Gaza kills Hamas military leader Salah Shahada and 14 other Palestinians [2002/07/23]
Terror bombing at Hebrew University cafeteria kills seven [2002/07/31]
Celebration
in Gaza after Hebrew University bombing
(AP/Little Green Footballs, 2002/07/31)
Selected news and commentary
"Study Warns of Stagnation in Arab Societies" (Barbara Crossette, The New York Times, 2002/07/02)
"Allah Mode - France's Islam problem" (Christopher Caldwell, The Weekly Standard, from the 2002/07/15 issue)
"Tolerating Intolerance: The Challenge of Fundamentalist Islam in Western Europe" (Bruce Bawer, Partisan Review, from the PR3/2002 issue)
"The National Strategy For Homeland Security: Office of Homeland Security" (The White House, 2002/07/16)
Main events
American debate on Iraq policy [2002/08/09]
Marwan Barghouti charged with murder [2002/08/14]
Libya will head the United Nations Commission on Human Rights [2002/08/19]
"Terror
on Tape"
(CNN.com, 2002/08/18)
Selected news and commentary
"The UN on the Loose" (AEI/Commentary, Joshua Muravchik, 2002/08/08)
"Al Qaeda's Fantasy Ideology" (Lee Harris, The Wall Street Journal, 2002/08/13)
"Shilling for the House of Saud" (Matt Welch, National Post/Matt Welch, 2002/08/24)
"Year One" (Charles Krauthammer, The Weekly Standard, from the 2002/09/09 issue)
Main events
Mega-attack in Israel foiled [2002/09/05]
Speech by Benjamin Netanyahu at the Concordia University is cancelled because of violent protests [2002/09/09]
First anniversary of 9/11 [2002/09/11]
President Bush issues ultimatum to Iraq at the United Nations General Assembly [2002/09/12]
French author Michel Houellebecq on trial for "hate speech" [2002/09/17]
German justice minister Herta Daeubler-Gmelin compares Bush with Hitler [2002/09/19]
"On
hallowed ground"
(Chuck Fedaly, The Miami Herald, 2002/09/07)
Selected news and commentary
"Rolling Back Radical Islam" (Ralph Peters, Parameters, from the Autumn 2002 issue)
"What, Saudis worry? Pass the caviar" (Tito Drago, Asia Times, 2002/09/03)
"The triumph of American values" (Mark Steyn, The Spectator, from the 2002/09/07 issue)
"On hallowed ground" (Dave Barry, The Miami Herald, 2002/09/07)
"A Sense Of Betrayal" (Lisa Chedekel, The Hartford Courant, 2002/09/08)
"Since Durban: An entrenchment of hatred" (Anne Bayefsky, The Jerusalem Post, 2002/09/12)
"The Events of September 11 and the Arab Media: The New Antisemitic Myth" (MEMRI, Special Report - No. 7, 2002/09/13)
"Ted Rall and His Web of Half-Truths: A Critique" (John Giuffo, The Comics Journal, from the #247 issue)
Main events
Snipers kill 9 in Washington DC area [2002/10/02]
Shoe Bomb Suspect Pleads Guilty [2002/10/04]
Oriana Fallaci on trial for "hate speech" [2002/10/09]
Congress Passes Iraq Resolution [2002/10/11]
Pakistan election result creates new Islamist heartland [2002/10/11]
Terror bombing at Bali nightclub kills 182 [2002/10/12]
Saddam Hussein 'wins 100% of vote' [2002/10/16]
North Korea admits program on nuclear arms [2002/10/17]
The Moscow Siege [2002/10/23]
"Terror
in Bali"
(AP/Sydney Morning Herald, 2002/10/13)
Selected news and commentary
"Crude" (Peter Beinart, The New Republic, 2002/10/01)
"Goodbye, All That: How Left Idiocies Drove Me to Flee" (Ron Rosenbaum, The New York Observer, 2002/10/09)
"Eurabia" (Bat Yeor, National Review, 2002/10/09)
"Slave State" (Robert Kaplan, The New Republic, 2002/10/10)
"They want to kill us all" (Mark Steyn, The Spectator, from the 2002/10/19 issue)
"So Long, Fellow Travelers" (Christopher Hitchens, The Washington Post Outlook, from the 2002/10/20 issue)
"The Real Roots of Arab Anti-Americanism" (Barry Rubin, Foreign Affairs, from the November/December 2002 issue)
"'O, Heinous, Strong, and Bold Conspiracy!'" (Andrew Breitbart, National Review, 2002/10/30)
"In the Party of God" (Jeffrey Goldberg, The New Yorker, from the 2002/10/14 and 21 issues)
Main events
Party tied to Islam wins big in Turkey [2002/11/04]
Scholar sentenced to death in Iran [2002/11/07]
U.N. passes Iraq resolution on weapons inspections [2002/11/08]
Egyptian TV airs series based on the infamous anti-Semitic forgery "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" [2002/11/14]
The Miss World Massacre [2002/11/21]
The Saudi Money Trail [2002/11/24]
UN resumes Iraq inspections [2002/11/27]
Terror attacks in Kenya kill 15 [2002/11/28]
"Relieved
passengers back in Israel"
(BBC News, 2002/11/28)
Selected news and commentary
"Jihad and the Professors" (Daniel Pipes, Commentary/danielpipes.org, from the November 2002 issue)
"A Religion of Peace?" (Kenneth R. Timmerman, Wall Street Journal/The Center for Security Policy, 2002/11/04)
"The Barbarians at the Gates of Paris" (Theodore Dalrymple, City Journal, from the Autumn 2002 issue)
"Protocols of Elder Named Gore Vidal: Wacko 9/11 Piece" (Ron Rosenbaum, The New York Observer, from the 2002/11/11 issue)
"Moral Hazard" (Franklin Foer, The New Republic, 2002/11/12)
"American view of Europe" (Martin Walker, UPI, 2002/11/13)
"Was it worth it?" (Polly Toynbee, The Guardian, 2002/11/13)
"The Saudi Money Trail" (Michael Isikoff and Evan Thomas, Newsweek, from the 2002/12/02 issue)
"The Kabul-ki Dance" (Mark Bowden, The Atlantic, from the November 2002 issue)
"No More Fanaticism as Usual" (Salman Rushdie, The New York Times, 2002/11/27)
"Beauties and the Beasts" (Andrew Sullivan, Salon.com/andrewsullivan.com, 2002/11/27)
"Bush and the Saudi princess" (Mark Steyn, The Spectator, from the 2002/11/30 issue)
"Old And In The Way" (Karl Zinsmeister, The American Enterprise Magazine, from the December 2002 issue)
Main events
Iraq hands over weapons dossier [2002/12/07]
Iraq admits it's on the brink of creating nukes [2002/12/09]
Scud missiles found on ship of North Korea [2002/12/11]
"Scud Missiles Found on Ship of
North Korea"
(Thom Shanker, The New York Times, 2002/12/11)
Selected news and commentary
"Let's hear it for bad taste" (Ian Buruma, The Guardian, 2002/12/03)
"Goodbye Europe" (Mark Steyn, The American Enterprise Magazine, from the December 2002 issue)
"The Intellectual Origins Of America-Bashing" (Lee Harris, Policy Review, from the December 2002 and January 2003 issue)
"From a June 19 speech by Hashem Aghajari delivered in Hamedan, Iran, on the 25th anniversary of the death of controversial Islamic scholar Ali Shariati. Translated from the Farsi." (Hashem Aghajari, The Washington Post Outlook, 2002/12/08)
"The Quiet Power of Condi Rice" (Evan Thomas, Newsweek, from the 2002/12/16 issue)
"Lessons in hate, on a campus near you" (Leonard Stern, Ottawa Citizen/Campus Watch, 2002/12/14)
"At the Corner of Hate and Free Speech" (Ted Gup, The Washington Post Outlook, 2002/12/15)
"Fortuyn Investigation" (Michiel Visser, The Visser View, 2002/12/17)
"How the West Was Won and How It Will Be Lost" (Oriana Fallaci, The American Enterprise, from the January/February 2003 issue)
"Persons of the Year 2002 - The Special Agent" (Amanda Ripley and Maggie Sieger, TIME, from the 2003/01/06 issue)
"Iraq and the Arabs' Future" (Fouad Ajami, Foreign Affairs, from the January/February 2003 issue)
"The Ginnosar File - The $300 Million Affair: How a Former Senior General Security Service Official Set Up Arafat's Secret Financial Empire – The Full Story" (Ben Caspit, MEMRI, 2002/12/27)
"Is There a Crisis in U.S. and North Korean Relations? Yes, There Are Two!" (Anthony H. Cordesman, CSIS, 2002/12/30)Note: Some of the dates given in "Main events" are approximate and/or refer to the start date of a particular event.
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