For Israeli society, the question is, whether or not we will be ready to make the concessions needed for an honest peace. We must wrest back control of our society and of the Zionist idea   from the settler lobbies, and from those who still have delusions about wholesale expulsion of Palestinians and greater Israel. If Israeli society fails to set its house in order, we may face an imposed solution and an unpleasant future. If Palestinians fail to set their house in order, they face an indefinite continuation of the occupation, in all its misery.

For those who favor the cause of peace in Israel, the question is how best to popularize the cause of peace, and to catalyze peace in both Palestine and Israel. We cannot do it by continuing to chant "the occupation is killing us all." Palestinian moderates need our support against the advocates of perpetual armed struggle, and the moderate Israeli public has to hear our voice on the side of peace. It is absurd that those who claim to advocate nonviolence and peace glorify the slaughter of five year old children as "resistance." To the full article

November 13, 2002 Ami Isserof of MideastWeb.org and Melisse Boskowitz of Peace Child Israel on the need to find messages that can reach those who don't believe peace is possible.

November 10 2002 Added UN Security Council Resolution 1441 on Iraq to the Historic Documents and Treaties section

November 9 2002 Dear Amram Mitzna, An open letter to the leading contender for the Labor Party's leadership, by By Uri Avnery

November 6, 2002 Rochelle Mass is back at Ariga with poems from her latest book, The Startled Land, published by the Wind River Press. And Yosh is back with the question: "if it takes 37 days to figure out who won an election how many years does it take to find Bin Laden"

November 5, 2002 Israeli liberalism may not be dead. But it needs a lot of help by Ian Buruma -- from the Guardian

Beilin: Labor's exit is just the first step By Ira Moskowitz

See Ami Isserof's analysis of the start of the Israeli election campaign at Peacewatch

November 2, 2002 Yitzhak Rabin's Last Speech (Tonight is the annual memorial rally in Tel Aviv)

And a new dawn is breaking When Ehud Barak defined the odds and beat Bibi in 1999, he went to Rabin Plaza just before dawn, after the returns showed he had won by a landslide (after starting the race more than 30 percentage points behind Netanyahu), and promised an ecstatic crowd that was shouting 'just not Shas' (the ultra-Orthodox Sephardi party) "that 'a new dawn has broken over Israel' ... The 'new dawn' Barak had promised became first a surrealistic twilight under him, and then a long night of 'national unity,' under Sharon, who sold the lokshen that he was the only person who could bring peace and security just like the lokshen he sold in 1982 about a limited 40-kilometer operation that turned into an 18-year war in Lebanon. To the full article

Nov 1 2002 The people responsible for planning and carrying out suicide bombings that deliberately target civilians are guilty of crimes against humanity and should be brought to justice, Human Rights Watch said in a new report today.

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