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U.S. Ambassador to Bahrain Ronald Neumann's insistence at a student gathering here to observe a minute's silence for the Israeli victims in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict has sparked off a stormy controversy with some demanding he be declared persona non grata and asked to leave the country.

Israeli peace activist and former Knesset member Uri Avnery says "the dead Arafat will be far more dangerous than the living Arafat and his murder will be the point of no return.

Thanks to the initiative of Bahraini firm, Integrated Circus, information about the entire Middle East is now made available in a tiny business card sized CD-Rom under the title 'Middle East in Your Pocket'.

Lamenting the Arab inaction while besieged Palestinian President Yasser Arafat is struggling for survival, Saudi writer Nourah Abdul Aziz Al Khereiji hailed the number of Western male and female peace activists who walked into the compound to rescue the Palestinian leader.

Bahrain Prime Minister Sheikh Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa severely criticised the brutal Israeli invasion of Palestinian territories and emphasised the need for urgent peaceful solution to the crisis.

His Majesty Sheikh Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, King of Bahrain, has said that the Arab world will never surrender to the Israeli aggression and a comprehensive peace will be achieved only when the Palestinian state is established with Al Quds Al Shareef  (Jerusalem) as its capital.

In an open letter of protest and condemnation to the American ambassador in Saudi Arabia, Saudi English language Professor from Jeddah Afnan Fatani has vented her anger at the open U.S. support to Israel's slaughter campaign of the Palestinians in the West Bank cities.

A Hebrew University professor in Occupied Jerusalem has said that if the intifada goes on, Israel will be defeated just as surely as what had happened to the Americans in Vietnam and the Soviets in Afghanistan.

Supermarket chains in Bahrain have started removing U.S. goods from their shelves, and consumers have begun boycotting American products, including popular soft drinks and fast-food chains, in protest against the biased stance against Palestinians reeling under Israeli occupation.

Saudi Arabia has given $75.5 billion as assistance to developing countries, especially in Africa, during the past quarter of a century. This constitutes around 4 per cent of the country's GDP.

A group of eight candidates who contested and lost the elections to the board of directors of the Bahrain Chamber of Commerce and Industry, has filed an appeal in the Court of Cassation, the country's highest court, challenging the High Appeal Court's verdict.

The plight of stateless people called 'bedoun' in Bahrain continues to attract the attention of the local media.