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May 2002 May 25 2002 May 25 2002 Rochelle Mass sends in three prose poems that touch very closely on the surrealism -- and beauty -- of life in Israel. May 22 2002 Added the US State Department Report on Global Patterns of Terrorism (Middle East) to the Historic Documents and Treaties section and because given the situation, our souls need something, four new poems by Elisha Porat May 18 2002 Two particularly moving articles on one page, one from an Egyptian and the other an Israeli, that arrived from Mideastweb.org. Visit Americans for a Third Way, a blog devoted to voices of mderation from the Middle East, put up by Daniel Ross. May 17 2002 10 reasons for a modicum of optimism. By Robert Rosenberg: Yes, it is indeed a dark time, though I'm somewhat more optimistic now than a month ago because (in no particular order)... May 12 2002 Another peace demonstration last night in Kikar Rabin, drawing maybe 50,000 to 70,000 people depending on who you asked (except the organizers, The Peace Coalition, who said there mroe more than 100,000 people). The good feeling was that people realized they aren't alone. The bad feeling is that the peace camp still doesn't have a single, charismatic leader who can spellbind a crowd, and draw newcomers with a rhetoric that offers not only hope, but a sense of what peace is for and not only what it is against (war, terror, etc.) Nonetheless, it is important that these demonstrations take place, if for nothing more than to shame the Labor Party's ministers in the government, particularly Shimon Peres, who has become such a disappointment, no matter how much he tries to explain that if he wasn't in the government, things would be much worse. Gila Svirsky of Women for a Just Peace, reports on the demonstration and other polticial activisim of the past week, in a brief article she calls A Turning Point, which you can find here. In any case, while there, as usual, we ran into lots of friends, including Karen Alkalay-Gut, one of the most popular poets at Ariga. I reminded her that she had not sent in any poems lately, so when she got home last night, she sent Recital, which is about the Jenin refugee camp episode and very much worth the two minutes it takes to read. Check it out. Ariga also welcomes a new poet, David Michael Jackson, who sent in four poems that are simply stated and deeply felt. May 7, 2002 A major anti-war, pro-peace rally is being planned for May 11, at Kikar Rabin, in Tel Aviv. Both the mainstream peace groups, like Peace Now and Meretz, and mre "radical" groups like Gush Shalom and Women and Black, are working full steam ahead to make this a large demonstration in favor of a peace deal based on the Saudi initiative, the Clinton framework, in fact, even the Bush plan for a two-state solution. If you are in Tel Aviv, indeed Israel, on May 11, make sure to be at Kikar Rabin (Tel Aviv City Hall Plaza) on this coming Saturday night. Meanwhile, The March of Folly, a roving exhibition by leading Israeli artists who have donated their artwork to a roving protest exhibition, is touring the country. The exhibition visited Haifa on May 6 and continues to Beesheva, Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv, where it will remain until the mass rally on Saturday night, May 11th. May 3 2002 Added Friends of the Earth Middle East to Ariga's Human Rights and Peace Groups section. May 2 2002 Robert Rosenberg writes that it's time for an imposed settlement in the Israeli-Arab conflict. Writing from an Israeli's point of view, he says that "for the last 35 years, and more specifically, since the 1977 election of the first Likud government in Israel, the U.S. mantra about Israel has been that since the country is a democracy, the U.S. will not use its influence, whether alone or in conjunction with the international community, to impose a solution in the Israel-Arab conflict." But that now must change. It is time for an imposed settlement. |
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