View on Mideast ‘Embarrassing’
Ira Forman
April 29, 2004
Recently former President Jimmy Carter spoke out about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict as he visited Texas.
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Targeted Killings’ Other Casualties
Ron Kampeas, JTA
September 4, 2003
Killing Hamas leaders wounds the terrorist group, Israeli and Palestinian officials agree.
Terrorists in Old City
Gil Sedan
August 29, 2002
Since the intifada began two years ago, Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert had boasted that Arab residents of eastern Jerusalem had opted to stay out of the violence for fear of losing Israeli social service benefits.
There Is No ‘Occupation’
Morton A. Klein
May 16, 2002
Arab spokesmen regularly complain about what they call \”the Israeli occupation\” of the Judea-Samaria-Gaza territories. But the truth is that there is no such \”Israeli occupation.\” To begin with, nearly all Palestinian Arabs currently live under Yasser Arafat\’s rule, not Israel\’s. Following the signing of the Oslo accords, the Israelis withdrew from nearly half of the territories, including the cities where 98.5 percent of Palestinian Arabs reside. The notion that the Palestinian Arabs are living under Israeli occupation is false. The areas from which Israel has not withdrawn are virtually uninhabited, except for the two percent where Israelis reside.
Hard Talk
Rob Eshman
June 28, 2001
I have written about Yitzhak Frankenthal before, and I will no doubt write about him again, because the man has the gravitas to say just about whatever he wants about the Israeli-Palestinian crisis.\n\nFrankenthal is one of a distinct minority of Israelis and Arabs these days who are engaged in dialogue with their political adversaries.
Stopped Talks
Tom Tugend
June 28, 2001
These days, the dialogue is on hold — though once again organizers are trying to revive what\’s left of years of intermittent effort.\n\nAttempts at creating a viable relationship between representatives of some 600,000 Jews and 500,000 Muslims in Southern California go back almost as far as the 1948-49 war between Israelis and Arabs, and, as the headlines show, have reflected the fortunes of peace and war in the Middle East.
Defusing Tension
Tom Tugend
October 19, 2000
\nWhile violent clashes between Israelis and Palestinians have captured the headlines in recent weeks, Jewish and Arab leaders in major American cities are working quietly to forestall confrontations between their communities.\n\nTheir efforts are marked by some common guidelines.
To Live and Die in West Beirut
Tom Tugend
September 2, 1999
There have been a few Israeli films that dealt with relationships between Arabs and Jews (among them the superb prison drama \”Beyond the Walls\”), but rarely do we see an Arab movie that tells the story from the perspective of the \”other side.\”
The Human Element of Diplomacy
Naomi Pfefferman
January 7, 1999
The all-night sessions, heated confrontations and threats of walkouts that marked the recent Wye Accord negotiations had their parallel 20 years ago, when the Camp David Agreement lay the groundwork for the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty.
Mideast
Eric Silver
August 27, 1998
What the Israeli right likes to call \”the battle for the Land of Israel\” is in danger of turning into a war of the ultras, Arab extremists vs. Jewish extremists.
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