The fifth issue of “Madarat Gharbiya” is focusing on some of the most controversial issues in the world’s political arena, Holocaust, anti-Semitism and the Arab-Israeli conflict.
 

• Publisher of “Madarat Gharbiya”, Dr. Mohammed Nehme, conducted a dual, but separate, dialogue with Canadian thinker Thierry Hentsch and French thinker Jean-Paul Chagnollaud. The dialogue centers on the current Middle East conflict and its prospected development, especially on the eve of the death of the Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat. It also examines the continuous debate, amongst Western writers, about anti-Semitism in the West and its effect on solving the Arab-Israeli conflict.
   
• French researcher Jean-Marc DreyFus writes in Le Débat magazine about the Holocaust, its effects on the social and political environment in the United States, and its influence on the overall political elite in the U.S.
   
• "Living With The Holocaust: The Journey of a Child of Holocaust Survivors" is the title of a lecture by Harvard University professor Sara Roy given during the Second Annual Holocaust Remembrance at the Center for American and Jewish Studies and the George W. Truett Seminary, Baylor University, on 8 April 2002. Dr. Roy frankly tells her personal story with the Holocaust reflecting, through this tragedy, on the Palestinian people plight under the Israeli occupation.
   
• French Judeo-Catholic Friendship president Paul Thibaud, in a dialogue setting under the title "What is the truth behind Anti-Semitism in France?" tries to defend the Israeli position before coming face to face with the "Separating Wall" issue. He criticizes some of the French Jewish organizations that "turned the Holocaust into a religion".
   
• Greek writer A. Liakos writes in "To Vima" publication about the current Jewish three-pronged problem: Israel, the Holocaust, and September 11, trying to highlight the newly developed political correlation among the issues involved.
   
  

• In a study titled: "Ideo-theology: Discourse and Dissonance in the State of Israel", published in the "Israel Affairs" magazine, British thinker Clive Jones looks deeply into the theological roots of the Israeli political right movement.
   
• French thinker, Edgar Morin, in an essay titled: "Anti-Semitism, Anti-Jewish, Anti-Israel," published in Le Monde, studies the conceptual usage and interpretations of "Anti-Semitism".
  
  

• Dialogues with French thinker, Edgar Morin, in which he discusses the concept of "Forgiveness" as promoted by the French philosopher Jack Derrida. Moran argues that forgiveness is but an anecdote to resist the cruelty of today's world, which is plagued with genocides, and to force the suppression of its evildoings.
  
  

• "Zionism and the West," an Israeli document highlight's an Israeli view toward the West, historically, contemporarily, and as projected into the future.
   
• "Reflections on the Holocaust", is the title of a Vatican document by Cardinal Edward-Idris Cassidy includes a call to world Catholicism to overcome the ever haunting belief of Jewish responsibility for the killing of Jesus and a call for forgiveness.
   
• "The Right to Compensation and Restitution in International Law" is a legal analysis by Michael Lynk focusing on compensation for refugees and displaced persons, and for victims of the abuse of internationally recognized human rights, as it has evolved into the status of a right in international law.
   
• Selected documents and lectures circulated during the United Nations World Conference Against Racism (WCAR), which was held in Durban, South Africa. The essays focus on the Israeli political and military behavior toward the Palestinian people.
  
  

• “Jewish Internet” is the title of the Interaction’s editorial by Dr. Gassan Murad
   
• "Internet Wars", is a researched assortment of the Israeli and Palestinian web sites and their addresses as well as other Arab web sites with focus on the Middle East conflict.
  
  

In the last section of this issue, “Books”, the reader finds a rich selection of book reviews (from the U.S.A., France, Britain, and Canada) that shed more lights on the Holocaust, Anti-Semitism, and the Arab-Israeli conflict, providing a diverse list of resources.