Already Divided
July 27, 2000
For all the mantras of Jerusalem as \”the undivided, eternal capital of the Jewish people,\” reiterated by every Israeli leader since the Six-Day War, the city has never been monolithic.
Eric Silver
After the Summit
July 27, 2000
Camp David is dead, long live Camp David. That was the slogan as the despondent, disappointed Israelis left the morning after the Middle East peace summit collapsed in the Maryland presidential retreat.\”The process is not over,\” said strategic analyst Yossi Alpher, a former special adviser to Prime Minister Ehud Barak. \”It is hard to think that Barak will simply say, \’I\’m finished dealing with the peace process.\’ They\’re going to have to get back to talking.\”
What, though, would they talk about?
Barak’s Gamble
July 13, 2000
The Camp David summit looks like the boldest gamble by an Israeli leader since the founding father, David Ben-Gurion, declared the Jewish state in May 1948, to the rumble of invading Arab guns and the chattering teeth of his own querulous associates. Ehud Barak flew to the United States this week determined to make peace with the Palestinians, but with his coalition government and parliamentary support in tatters.
Letter to an American Friend
July 6, 2000
Dear Uncle Sam,
Why are you humiliating us (Israel) like this?
The Day After
June 1, 2000
Over the past two decades, Israel has slowly and painfully learned a whole degree course of lessons from its adventures in Lebanon.
Widening the Wall
May 25, 2000
Campaigners for religious pluralism drove two gaping breaches this week through Orthodox and ultra-Orthodox control of the Western Wall.
The PalestinianCapital?
May 18, 2000
There is a grimy Arabic sign high on the wall of the imposing new building rising on a rocky, ragged hillside in the West Bank village of Abu Dis.
Out of the Killing Fields
May 11, 2000
This Tuesday, one day before Israel celebrated its 52nd Independence Day, it solemnly and collectively honored the 19,109 soldiers, sailors and airmen who have died in defense of the reborn state since the United Nations voted to partition British Palestine on November 29, 1947.
Israel Speaks Up
May 4, 2000
Israel this week came out of its shell and launched a public campaign against the trial of 13 Iranian Jews charged in Isfahan with spying for Israel and the United States.
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