Sept 13 1993
Save the Peace The Fourth Anniversary of the Historic Mutual Recognition between Israels and Palestinians -- Don't let terrorists and those terrified by them, prevent peace -- To Oslo 2 the full text of the historic agreement, hyperlinked from a main menu

"Oslo is Dead" -- "Principles for Peace"

Sept 10 1997From the directors of the Israel Palestine Committee for Research and Information (IPCRI), two articles that point to ways to move ahead in the Peace Process.

Lebanon -- A Window of Opportunity

Sep 8 1997 "Between the Lebanese fleeing north and the Israelis fleeing south lies a political conundrum that both holds up the peace process and provides a window of opportunity for a great leap forward." An article from April 1996 (Grapes of Wrath), with a message good for today.

Peace Now Announces Demonstration Campaign to Save the Peace

Sep 5 1997 The Peace Camp can't wait any longer -- it's time to take action. Peace Now announces a series of demonstrations, including a major rally in downtown Tel Aviv September 13. For more information, Click here. Jerusalem Bombings

Sept 4 1997 Wait -- this is about the suicide bombs in Mahane Yehuda. But the message remains the same: "...Mourn the dead, but don't mourn the peace. The peace is too important to let die, too important to allow the fanatics and the hateful decide that war is better than peace, and that land is more valuable than people. Now, more than ever, the need for voices calling for peace, calling for reason, calling for cooperation and not conflict, are the voices that must be heard. It is difficult to hear those voices in the coming days, but all of us have a responsibility to do our best to listen for those voices and if we don't hear them, to raise our own..." To the full article -- and the letters that came in then.

Trying to see clearly in a dusty land September 3 1997 In mid-August, a chalky white dust settles on everything south of Jerusalem. It hasn't rained in six months, and the dust comes from quarries and stone masonries cutting up the stark white limestone and marble ubiquitous to every construction site in the area, whether Jewish or Arab... From the grape vines hanging heavy with fruit in the old stone-wall terraces, to the signs announcing new settlement construction, the white dust adds a visual element to the surrealism that passes for normalcy in this hot land, where the horrific and the fantastic combine with the absurdities that both true believers and the clerks and soldiers of the ruling bureaucracies accept as given. Tragedy reigns, but there's an underlying wicked irony based on misunderstandings that an outsider sees clearly but the residents - both Jewish and Arab - can't quite grasp... A one-toothed Arab man somewhere in his forties or fifties proves he can converse freely in four languages (Arabic, Hebrew, English, and German with a Yiddish accent) as a group of Israeli and Palestinian journalists walk together along Hebron's now-forgotten but briefly famous Shuhada Road. Each step raises a small cyclone of dust. To the rest of the article

Gush Shalom for Sep 19-26 1997
At Ras al Amud
Netanyahu lit
the fuse of war.
Olmert pushes and Muscovitz
executes, the National Religious Party cheers
and the government...

and us, the Israelis
and the Palestinians
will pay in bloodshed
the price of this insane policy

The struggle against the reign
of these empty vain people
is becoming a matter of life and death.

The Gush Shalom protest tent
day and night
remains opposite the houses conquered by the settlers.
Join us.

Prime Minister and Defense Minister

Prime Minister and Sarah
Considering Bibi's crypto-messianicist view of himself as the know-all and be-all, confusing the mechanisms of mass media with leadership, when all he does is strut like a bully in the open market, it's useful to remember that true leadership is not public relations, but decision making.
(With B-G, Paula, the Old Man's American-raised wife. With Bibi, Sarah, telling him what to do.) David Tartakover's weekly graphic from Ha'Ir is scanned into the 'net by Ariga with the permission of the artist.