May 1999
There are lots of discussions groups about Israel on the Internet, but most degenerate into name calling pretty quickly. Here's one of the more polite sites; moderated, it cuts out junk mail and other nastiness. Reach it through http://www.egroups.com/list/israworld-announce/info.html. Here's what they say about themselves: A forum for discussing current issues of Israeli life, from practical (travel, daily life, food, jobs, entertainment) to social and cultural matters (books, ideas, politics, religion). The only limitation is ... politeness. Particularly hot topics (like politics and religion) are welcome, but the moderator will take care of controlling degeneration or flames. If you are open-minded, live in Israel or elsewhere, and have a sincere interest for Israeli and Jewish culture, this is the place for sharing your ideas and experience.
Michael Medved's Israel National League Football Page has been updated
May 29 1999
Gush Shalom's weekly message
Pinkerton's Middle East Risk Assessment
May 25 1999
Possibly the best online source of online Jewish news: Yori Yanover's USAJewish.com
A Stratfor Analysis on Ehud Barak's victory. They're pessimistic about great changes coming. We beg to differ.
Yes, the negotiations won't be easy, for either side. But unlike the last three years, they will be negotiations aimed at making a deal and not preventing one.
Ecowork -- For ecological sensibility, from Jan Martin Bang:
Strawbale Building Day Thursday 3rd June: Kibbutz Gezer -- and other event announcements
May 21 1999
Gush Shalom's latest message
Pinkerton's assessment of risk in the Middle East
Ami Isseroff's analysis of the Ehud Barak victory and what it means for the peace movement on and off the 'net is important reading for anyone concerned about which way the country will go under a Barak administration.
Off-site: The Truman Institute specializes in
reasearch of the non-western world such as Africa, Asia, Latin America and
the Middle East. The web site contains easy online access to the Institute's library and
catalouge, and hundreds of links to other sites that specialise in the above fields.
Elisha Porat's latest story for Ariga
Janet Buck new poems
Philip Hyams is back at Ariga with some new poetry
May 17 1999
Election Coverage
Days of secular rites A short piece on the meaning of voting.
May 15 1999
Why Netanyahu Shouldn't be Re-elected -- and Probably Won't Be: Ariga's Robert Rosenberg endorses a change of leadership in Israel in an article at www.intellectualcapital.com.
Beate Zilversmidt writes When things get worse they aren't getting better - a letter to those on the left who wonder why they should vote for a "right-winger" like Ehud Barak.
Jessica Montell of B'Tselem on the Israeli elections: and how the human rights issues were never mentioned in the campaign.
Photographer Andre Brutmann catches Barak from behind at a rally
Pinkerton's risk report for the Middle East
May 3 1999
B’Tselem publishes report at end of Oslo interim period:
Oslo: Before and After - The Status of Human Rights in the Occupied
Territories
An Israeli-Palestinian picnic A personal report by Harry Lipkin.
Human Rights Watch issues their 1999 report on the Middle East
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