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September 13, 2003: The Relevance of Irrelevance by Roy Isacowitz ' It turns out that Yasser Arafat is not irrelevant after all.'

August 14, 2003: Speaking out for Palestine and Peace by Ami Isseroff: 'As expected, the roadmap for Israeli-Palestinian peace appears to have hit a dead-end, blocked by a massive suicide bombing in Jerusalem that left about 20 dead.

August 2003 The Fine Line between Revenge and Murder by Yitzhak Frankenthal 'The Palestinians and the Israelis are in a cycle of murder and revenge. There is a fundamental difference between the two: revenge is a punishment meted out for a murder committed; however, penalizing an entire population in response to a terror attack or to murder is not revenge, but murder per se. Unfortunately, we see the IDF performing - in my name as an Israeli citizen - acts of vengeance almost daily, thus penalizing an entire population, causing despair, revenge, murder and hatred. In their despair, the Palestinians take vengeance against the Israeli population and murder innocent people.'

August 28, 2003 Human rights can have no barriers, A speech by Mary Schweitzer

June 1, 2003 Thirty-six years after the Six Day War, it's drawing to the end by Robert Rosenberg

June 1, 2003 Thirty-six years after the Six Day War, it's drawing to the end by Robert Rosenberg

May 15, 2003 End the occupation NOW, for Israel's sake, for humanity's sake by Mary Schweitzer

May 13, 2003 Women's Interfaith Encounter Meeting -- April 30 in the North

May 13, 2003 Looking At the Middle East Through Arab Eyes by Joel Bainerman

May 11, 2003 Words at war by Chanan Kubitsky

May 8, 2003 Salam Pax is back! Hurray! By Robert Rosenberg: On the best site to get info on what is really going on in Baghdad, and how I now dream of driving to Europe one day, via Baghdad.

April 15, 2003 An optimistic scenario By Robert Rosenberg -- Remember -- those same Iraqis shouting this week on street corners they still don’t have electricity or medicine, will have it within a few weeks. A month ago, if they had stood on

April 9, 2003 I was a human shield By Billie Moskona-Lerman

April 8, 2003 Vacillating Syllables By Janet I. Buck

April 4, 2003

In it's third week, the war appears to be almost over, by Robert Rosenberg

March 20, 2003: Sharon's strategy 'It won't be easy to sleep here through this weekend, as the armies close in on Saddam Hussein. My biggest worry is even if the Americans hang his body in UN plaza he'll have followers who think he lives on'

March 17, 2003 HaMifkad Haleumi - Identity Card

The People’s Voice is a new, broad-based civil initiative whose founders -- Al Quds University President Prof. Sari Nusseibeh and IDF Maj. Gen. (res.) former admiral of the Israeli Navy and former chief of the Shin Bet Ami Ayalon -- recognise that a way exists to avert the dead-end reached in the relationship between the two sides.

February 28, 2003 The Origins of Intifada II and Rescuing Peace for Israelis and Palestinians By Menachem Klein This is a rare "insider's" account and analysis of what went wrong in the Peace Process leading up to its total collapse and to the tragedy we all find ourselves in nowadays. The Origins of Intifada II and Rescuing Peace for Israelis and Palestinians

February 9, 2003 Labor's choice By Robert Rosenberg: 'Even if one artificially isolates the occupation as the main source of the decline in Israeli parliamentary democracy’s vitality, and looks only at the performance of the democracy for the citizens of the state, it is evident that the two major parties, Likud and Labor, have distorted the concept of parliamentary democracy into something almost unrecognizable.' To the full article.

February 2, 2003 The Wise Man and the Fool in which Ariga Contributor Roy Isacowitz considers Amram Mitzna and Arik Sharon through the Shakespearean lens of Will's wise man and fool.

January 26, 2003 Three articles about the elections:

Veteran journalist and peace activist Uri Avnery says '...the fate of the Labor party is the central issue of these elections. If it will seem that Mitzna, the man of peace, has brought disaster upon his party, there will be no chance for Labor to play a role in the struggle for peace for a long, long time.' in an article For Whom to Vote

Roy Isacowitz refers to George Orwell's story about shooting an elephant to analye the colonialist tragedy, saying 'After 35 years of wearing the colonial mask, our faces are distorted beyond recognition. We have become callous and indifferent. We speak in the gruff, assured tones of the sahib generals, serving and retired, who pontificate ad nauseum about dismantling the terrorist infrastructure and contending with the strategic threat from all sides. The truth is, they don’t have a clue. They are like the British officers in the raj, the Belgian officers in the Congo and the French officers in Vietnam; men whose upbringing, training and experience in a colonial army left them woefully unprepared to deal with a war of liberation; with an entire nation fighting, and prepared to die, for its freedom' in an article called Sharon shoots the elephant,

And Robert Rosenberg says 'Zionism is about changing reality, not bowing to it as if it was divine fortune, soluble by either Arafat's death or the wrath of the Bushies against the horrors of Saddam, in either case something other than Israel solving the country's problems. Nor is Zionism about repressing another people's rght to self-determination' in his article, Anti-democratic forces, corruption, and a hopeful scenario

January 19, 2003 On the occasion of the funeral of another settler in Hebron, Leave Hebron Now! An article by Noam Hoffstater of Peace Now is based on his speech at a Peace Now rally in Hebron, on Sunday 22 December 2002.

January 19 2003 Here's a not untypical example of a newsletter from Windows, a Jewish-Arab cooperation group, including ways to acquire Mohamed Bakri's film Jenin, Jenin, and a report from one of the International Solidarity Mission people in Gaza

January 1, 2003 Yesh T'Guva: No moment, now man by Paul Usiskin "Troubled times. New leaders sought. Never in the history of the Israel-Palestine conflict has the need for the synergy of the moment and the man been more desperately needed, and never less likely are the fates to conspire to bring either the moment and the man together."

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