Increasing Tensions
Gil Sedan
November 2, 2000
As the violence in the West Bank and Gaza Strip enters its second month, there is a growing fear that it will escalate and embroil the entire region.
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New Religious Rift
David Landau
October 19, 2000
Humankind has proved itself almost infinitely resilient in its ability to, if not forgive, then at least put out of mind terrible atrocities and acts of cruelty perpetrated in wartime.
Our Jamal
Helen Schary Motro
October 12, 2000
I stared with the rest of the horrified world at the photo of the anonymous Palestinian father holding his anonymous Palestinian son – father wounded, son dead.
L.A.’s Forgotten Victim of Arab Terrorism
Rabbi Dov Fischer
December 9, 1999
Last week marked the sixth yahrzeit of Yitzhak Weinstock, a young American-Israeli who was murdered in a Palestinian Arab terrorist attack near Jerusalem. Hundreds of Jews have been murdered by Arab terrorists in Israel in the six years since the Oslo accords were signed, so perhaps it is no surprise that Yitzhak\’s name is not familiar to most Jews in Southern California.
Safe Passage?
Eric Silver
October 7, 1999
Within days, up to 1,000 Palestinians presently barred from entering Israel will be free to travel each day on a 26-mile \”safe passage\” that links the Palestinian-controlled territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
What’s Happened Since the Handshake?
Gil Sedan
September 16, 1999
Six years after the historic Rabin-Arafat handshake on the White House lawn, the Palestinians can point to a mixed bag of results from the Oslo peace process.
The Road to Peace Only Gets Bumpier
Douglas Davis
September 9, 1999
Glittering ceremonies and lofty rhetoric are the essential byproducts of every milestone in Middle East peacemaking.
Barak’s Hard Road to Peace
Larry Derfner
July 15, 1999
Now that Yasser Arafat has called Ehud Barak his \”friend and partner,\” and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has pronounced himself pleased and encouraged with the new Israeli prime minister, and President Clinton is just waiting to welcome him to Washington, the old euphoria seems to have arisen again.
Bibi’s Betrayal
Eric Silver
October 29, 1998
\”Binyamin Netanyahu is no longer the leader of the national camp,\” Aharon Domb, general secretary of the West Bank and Gaza Jewish settlers\’ council, said this week, with all the finality of a judge pronouncing sentence.
War and Remembrance
Michael Aushenker
September 24, 1998
Israel and its Arab neighbors are still feeling the effects, militarily, politically and psychologically, of the coordinated Egyptian-Syrian surprise attacks and of the desperate Israeli struggle to drive the invading forces back across the Suez Canal and the Golan Heights.
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