Bill Would Segregate Israelis
July 11, 2002
If Israel\’s friends and diplomats have a harder time this week convincing the world that Israel is not a racist state, they have only their own government to blame.
Eric Silver
Saudi Arabia Stirring
February 28, 2002
Last Sunday\’s cabinet decision to pull back the tanks from Yasser Arafat\’s Ramallah headquarters, but keep the Palestinian leader quarantined in that West Bank city, was a classic vindication of the former secretary of state\’s wit and wisdom.
Palestinian Peacenicks
February 21, 2002
It sounds confused, if not downright contrary. Most Arabs in the West Bank and Gaza Strip applaud violence against Israelis, yet they are eager for a cease-fire and for their political leaders to get back to the negotiating table.
Crackdown
January 31, 2002
"They are like mice," said Yeheskel Abu-Zwilli, a 74-year-old Iraqi-born Israeli, surveying the wreckage of the photography shop he has run in Jerusalem\’s Jaffa Street for 45 years. "Wherever there\’s a hole, they sneak in."
New Year; Old Problems
January 3, 2002
For Israel and the Palestinians, 2001 was a year of failure, collapse and escalating violence. Failure of international diplomacy, collapse of mutual trust, violence that claimed 200 Israeli lives and 574 Palestinian.
Bombers and the Martyr Syndrome
December 6, 2001
Palestinian suicide bombers killed a total of 28 bus passengers and young people in a four-day orgy of blood and vengeance that stretched from Haifa and Hadera in the North to Jerusalem in the South.
A New Iraqi Threat?
November 29, 2001
George W. Bush\’s gritty message to Saddam Hussein this week that any nation that develops weapons of mass destruction for terrorist purposes \”will be held accountable\” flashed a warning light to Israel.
Arafat’s New Point Man
November 22, 2001
It takes a pretty sophisticated politician to stand in front of a roomful of intifada-hardened reporters and announce that he is "politically naive."
PFLP Kills Ze’evi
October 18, 2001
To the end, Rechavam Ze\’evi, murdered at the age of 75 by a Palestinian gunman on Wednesday, was a soldier in mufti. Alone among the Israeli generals who went into politics, he continued to sport his army identity disk around his neck. It was a statement: the battle for the Jewish State was not over, and one of its most aggressive commanders was still fighting.
Muted Response
October 11, 2001
Israel is on high alert to meet any reprisal attacks by Palestinian or Lebanese supporters of Osama bin Laden.
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