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January 1999
Elections 1999
Jan 27 1999
Israeli and Palestinian educators meet in Ramallah, Palestine Whatever the politicians say, this is the way to peace.
Alternative Information Center loses three in drowning accident A pioneering Israeli-Palestinian political group mourns three activists -- Israeli, Palestinian and American, who died in a flash flood in a Negev wadi during an outing. The circumstances are proof of the genuine friendship between people of very different backgrounds.
Israel Committee Against House Demolition calls for Jan 29 tree-planting ceremonies Israelis are not Nazis. But house-demolition is inhumane and immoral when it is done for political reasons guised in laws that the victims representatives had no say in formulating.
Jan 24 1999
Jewish Web Week An explanation of this annual voyage around the Jewish world through the web.
Yehoshua Zamir writes to Yitzhak Mordechai, on the eve of the former general's departure from the Defense Ministry. In Hebrew.
Holding Hostages as "Bargaining Chips": A B'Tselem Notice:
On Wednesday, 27 January 1999, a nine-justice panel of the Supreme Court
will determine whether the Minister of Defense has the power to
administratively detain persons against whom no charges have been filed
and who do not endanger State security, and to hold them as bargaining
chips. Continue
Jan 20 1999 BIRTHING PEACE: NEXT STEPS A call from TikvaNet for help planning the next steps for spreading the peace message inside the Jewish commumnity.
New Poetry at Ariga
Alan Kaufman, well-known to the English-language poetry community in Israel, now lives in San Fransisco, where he has just completed editing what he calls a very big book of American poetry.
Hagy Averbach is a young Israeli who writes in both English and Hebrew. These are his first poems at Ariga.
Victoria Giannecchini of California, sends in her POLAROIDS of love and grief.
HE WHO TRIES TO ESCAPE FROM THE PALESTINIAN ISSUE,
THE PALESTINIAN ISSUE WILL PURSUE HIM
Gush Shalom ad for Jan 20 1999
Jan 13 1999 Gila Svirsky on demonstrations and a dinner including a report from Hebron, Ras el Amud, and anti-house demolition event.
Jan 10 1999
Late at night, in one of the Arab forums on the
internet, a certain Mohammed somebody threatens in an extremist, anti-american
tirade: "The sleeping giant was woken in Japan, and now the rest of the
world will have to learn the lesson..." -- What sleeping giant? What lesson? An article by Georgina Haran on the dangers of non-conventional weapons.
A brief item on a South African model for dialogue, Koinonia sent in by Len and Libby Traubman
Amnon Shahak Announces an election editorial by Robert Rosenberg
New poetry, including a short poem by Elisha Porat
Jan 7 1999
Ami Isserof on the Amnon Shahak candidacy
Shimon Palmer, a new poet at Ariga
One message, two items: Doctors can play an important role in peace making. Here's some information about two Israeli-Palestinian groups that have organized.
Ramzy Baroud writes about his New Year's resolution to do what he can for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.
The Israel/Palestine Committee for Research and Information announces a new report, and a recommendation for Windows Magazine, a bi-lingual magazine for Israeli and Palestinian kids.
Larry Bleiberg, a Dallas News travel editor, on how a mystery book can be a good travel guide -- why is this posted here? because he mentions Crimes of the City, a based on a true story novel about the Jerusalem Syndrome, the first book in the Avram Cohen Mystery Quartet
Jan 6 1998
Yasser Arafat's speech in the Swedish Paliament building, 5 December 1998 An important statement of intentions.
January 3 1999
Gila Svirsky of Bat Shalom reports on a protest against house demolitions in the West Bank
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