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5763: Articles posted from September 2002-September 2003 Get the real situation in Israel every day.
June 1-June 20, 2003 American babysitters June 1, 2003 Thirty-six years after the Six Day War, it's drawing to the end by Robert Rosenberg May 19, 2003 End the occupation NOW, for Israel's sake, for humanity's sake by Mary Schweitzer May 13, 2003 Looking At the Middle East Through Arab Eyes by Joel Bainerman and Women's Interfaith Encounter Meeting -- a report from the North
May 11, 2003 Words at war by Chanan Kubitsky: "'Imagine if FDR had declared war on 'sneak attacks' after Pearl Harbor, instead of on Japan. That's what George Bush did when he declared war on 'terrorism.'" Sloppy word-usage, writes Kubitsky, indicates sloppy thinking. May 8, 2003 Salam Pax is back! Hurray! 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 the corner screaming at the authorities they didn't have electricity or medicine, they would have been shot. Democracy is as simple as that. To the full article. April 9, 2003 I was a human shield By Billie Moskona-Lerman April 8, 2003 Vacillating Syllables Poet Janet I. Buck explains where she stands on the war in Iraq. April 4, 2003 In it's third week, the war appears to be almost over by Robert Rosenberg March 28, 2003: Victims make good copy, especially civilian casualties of war but the awe and shock in this war is over how few casualties there have been. By Robert Rosenberg March 21, 2003 On the opening of the war in the Gulf by Robert Rosenberg
March 17 2003 Rachel Corrie killed trying to stop an IDF bulldozer
March 16, 2003 I Am Afraid, So Lets Get Us a War by Chanan Kubitsky March 7, 2003 A Sharon clone in the White House By Roy Isacowitz: "It is Iraq's great misfortune that it not only sits on an alluring sea of oil, but is also an integral part of a region that is identified, in Bush's single-digit mind, with terror – Arab terror. And Arab terror is the oxygen that has kept Ariel Sharon alive and shooting for the past 50 years. Both Sharon and Bush regard Saddam as the first domino, whose fall will lead to the progressive collapse of Islamic terror, Palestinian national aspirations and everything else that is nasty and bothersome in the Middle East." To the full article February 28, 2003The 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. February 1 2003 Twice I've Met With Ariel Sharon and Each Meeting Was More Fantastic Than the Other (a long title for a short story, with no moral) By Corinna Hasofferett 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.
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, no 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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