Eyewitness accounts: after 2000...

Historical snippets from the first year of this eyewitness period...

2001:  Sharon becomes prime minister. Bill Clinton pardons Marc Rich. US spy plane and Chinese jet collide. USS Greeneville sinks Japanese boat. Timothy McVeigh executed. Al-Quada terrorists attack New York City and Washington DC. US and Britain occupy Afghanistan. Anthrax kills postal workers. Embryos created to harvest stem cells. Artificial heart successfully implanted. Christiaan Barnard and George Harrison die.

The end of Israel?
Hannah Mermelstein, The Electronic Intifada, 19 December 2007