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Your Friends and Neighbors

Rob Eshman October 5, 2000

There are two ways of looking at the violence that wracks Israel and the Palestinian autonomous zones. One is that it proves the peace process must stop. The other is that it proves the process must continue.Which conclusion people reach no doubt depends on conclusions they reached long before the rioting that has claimed 53 lives as of Tuesday and left scores wounded. To polemicists and true believers on either side, the street battles are simply more evidence of the justness of their cause.

All Too Familiar

Steven L October 5, 2000

It is all too familiar. An incident – sometimes initiated by an Israeli action, sometimes not – incites the Palestinian masses. Rioting ensues, followed by the Israeli army\’s attempts to control it, followed by horror and tragedy, shocking pictures in the media.

The pundits declare the peace process dead, and then the diplomats go back to work, first to quell the violence, then to address the underlying problems again.

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Rob Eshman September 28, 2000

Clearly, the rabbis who codified our tradition didn\’t want us to stray too far from at least the spiritual idea of being an Israelite, a member of a tribe.

The Lion’s Roar

Stuart Schoffman September 28, 2000

Anyone in the Old Country who still believes that Israel is a creamy \”blending of the exiles\” should get on the next plane to Ben-Gurion airport, hop a cab to Ma\’asiyahu prison in the nearby town of Ramle, and geb a kuk, as my grandmother used to say, at what\’s going on.

Rosh Hashanah in Frankfurt, Germany

Murray Klein September 28, 2000

On Friday, Sept. 7, 1945, 1800 hours, at the corner of Freiherr von Stein Strasse and Eppsteiner Strasse in Frankfurt-on-the-Main, a ceremony took place.

All of the Above for President

Burt Prelutsky September 21, 2000

How is it, I wonder, that simply because some political hack manages to capture his party\’s nomination, millions of people will suddenly regard him with the awe usually reserved for those who can raise the dead?

Beginnings and Endings

Gene Lichtenstein September 21, 2000

Every newspaper editor knows that one day he will have to step down. He may put the idea out of mind or revel in denial. But the thought is always there, loitering out of sight. Departure may come suddenly by way of death, illness or age. Or it may spring up with the changes that appear everywhere, while the editor persists in remaining unchanged and, therefore, out of step. Or there may simply, and unexpectedly, be an offer he can\’t refuse.

Survivors of Forced Labor Deserve Tax-Free Reparations

Antonio R September 21, 2000

The horrific racial persecution of the Holocaust is all too familiar to us. That dark period in history was marked by the brutal deaths of millions of innocent people and also involved the virtual enslavement of more than 10 million foreign laborers in Germany.

Freedom for Lori Berenson

Murray Polner September 21, 2000

Franklin Roosevelt\’s remark that Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo \”may be an SOB, but he\’s our SOB\” is a reminder that defending universal human rights may be a good American party line, but it is somewhat tainted by the support given to loathsome regimes in Chile, Guatemala and South Africa. It\’s Lori Berenson\’s singular achievement that she has unwittingly injected Peru\’s Alberto Fujimori into that mix.Fujimori had crushed the Shining Path terrorists (not to be confused with Tupac Amaru) and destroyed the Peruvian drug trade. Yet his government has been sharply criticized by human rights organizations as well as by the State Department.

The State of Play

Gene Lichtenstein September 14, 2000

Almost from the day that negotiations at Camp David broke off this past summer, foundering over Jerusalem, Arafat has been traveling the world meeting with heads of state – in Europe, the Arab countries, the U.S. – and trying to rally support.

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