Ariga: December 1997

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December 1997

Every week, Ariga translates and posts the Gush Shalom Advertisement that appears in the Friday Ha'aretz on page 2.

This week's message Nov 29 1997

Danger
The Prime Minister's
Gambling it all
on Our Peace
and on Our Security The tricks of his "pulses,' aimed at destroying the chances for peace, are abandoning us to the darkness of terror and the curse of war. Now we're not just talking about the abrogation of treaties and the cancelloation fo comitments, which Netanyahu gave with his signature and his statements, but with a crazed gamble with our lives.

The PM is HTA

(HTA stands for Hostile Terrorist Activity -- the English acronym for the IDF term P"HO "Peilut Habala Oyenet)

Tartakover for the People

Will we Forever Eat Bibi?

David Tartakover's weekly graphic commentary on the situation is, with his permission, scanned into Ariga every week from the pages of Ha'Ir, the Tel Aviv weekly. For more Tartakover images, click here

Fed Up with Bibi
The Israeli Internet Blackout
May 29 1997

This image will remain on these pages until Bibi is no longer prime minister... But God forbid Ehud Olmert replace him as leader of the Likud.

A Clear View in a Dusty Land

-- an essay by Robert Rosenberg

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. ... The powder 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. To the full article

Previously at Ariga

November's Ariga included the opening of the Administrative Detainees Page at Ariga, the The October Ariga it was supposed to be a happy month. Israel was more confused than ever about how to fight terrorism, about who is a Jew, about who is a leftist, indeed about who is Bibi Netanyahu.

The September Ariga including "A Clear View in a Dusty Land" -- A Settlement Report from the Foundation for Middle East Peace -- Oslo is Dead and Principles for Peace from IPCRI -- and MORE The August Ariga Including: Administrative Detention: A letter to Yitzhak Mordechai, and Imad Sabi's release -- US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's Mideast Policy Speech -- The Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees on "One Week Under Closure -- A letter to "Captain Yossi" by Dr. Hanna Nasir, President of Birzeit University -- and MORE The July Ariga: The Jerusalem Suicide bombs -- Release the Administrative Detainees Now -- Recommendations for Steps toward Palestinian Economic Development in Relationship to Israeli Security -- The Tragic Case of the USS Liberty -- AND MORE

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