Mideast
Douglas Davis
July 9, 1998
For Arafat, it was an admission of unmitigated weakness, a move that was clearly borne out of dire necessity.
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‘I Am a Coalition of One’
Larry Derfner
May 21, 1998
Regarding the domestic political pressures thatBinyamin Netanyahu faces in his decision-making on the peace process,the prime minister himself probably summed it up best in the \”Israelat 50\” interview he gave to Newsweek: \”I am a coalition ofone.\”
50th Anniversary of ‘Calamity’
Larry Derfner
March 12, 1998
Palestinians have an official term for whathappened to them when Israel gained its independence 50 years ago:\”Nakba,\” or, in English, \”Calamity.\” In the failed Arab attack on theJews in 1948, some 600,000 Arabs fled the land or, in tens ofthousands of cases, were expelled.
A Voice
Tom Tugend
February 5, 1998
\”The Oslo agreement took Yasser Arafat out of the dustbin of history and gave him the tools to destroy Israel. If we accept that, then they should put a fence around Israel and declare it an insane asylum.\”
One Saturday Night in Ramallah
Eric Silver
November 27, 1997
The bad news is that the peace process is going nowhere. The good news is that the Palestinians are learning all over again how to enjoy themselves.
The ‘Disappearance’of Ya’acov Schwartz
Larry Derfner
September 25, 1997
On Sept. 10, the day Secretary of State Madeleine Albright arrived in Israel, the country became preoccupied with another event: the disappearance of Ya\’acov Schwartz.
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