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A Code of Civility in Jewish Public Discourse

David N. Myers June 6, 2002

One of the most distressing aspects of the recent Middle East conflagration has been the retreat of both sides — Israelis and Palestinians, as well as their supporters — behind towering rhetorical walls.

This retreat evokes the verbal wars of the 1970s, when Israel meant racist and Arab connoted terrorist. When trapped beyond such rhetorical walls, we can only imagine, not see, what the other side looks like. And the imagination often runs wild, depicting the enemy in absolute and demonic terms.

This Land Is Our Land

Rabbi Mimi Weisel June 6, 2002

You cannot remove other people\’s anxieties, but sometimes you can help them to understand their feelings of unease and find ways to cope with them.

Caped Crusaders

Ruth Andrew Ellenson May 16, 2002

The $114 million opening weekend for the release of \”Spider-Man\” on May 3 was not only a box office record breaker but a resounding triumph for two wily Israeli entrepreneurs.

Arafat’s Choice

Rep. Henry Waxman April 4, 2002

Last week, as a Palestinian terrorist murdered 22 Israelis sitting down to their Passover seder, the Al Aqsa Martyr\’s Brigade became the first group affiliated with Yasser Arafat\’s Fatah movement to be added to the U.S. list of Foreign Terrorist Organization since the United States normalized relations with the Palestinian Liberation Organization after the signing of the Oslo accords in 1993.

Composed of Arafat loyalists, funded by Fatah through the Tanzim militias, and assisted in coordination of their attacks by members of Arafat\’s Force 17 security services, the Al Aqsa Martyr\’s Brigade has dramatically outpaced Islamic extremist organizations like Hamas and Islamic Jihad in attacks on Israelis.

War or Pieces

Rob Eshman September 6, 2001

Israelis voted Ehud Barak into office as prime minister because he promised to bring them peace. He failed, in large part because his negotiating partner Yasser Arafat was unwilling to make the difficult choices peace demands. Israelis then voted Ariel Sharon into the prime minister\’s office hoping that, if Barak couldn\’t bring peace, at least Sharon could bring security. He failed, too. In a Gallup poll published in Ma\’ariv newspaper this month, only 21 percent of the Israelis said they believed Sharon could end the violence. A month earlier, the number of believers was twice as high.\n

Mea Culpas

Amy Klein August 23, 2001

Even for a journalist who tries to keep an open mind, it\’s hard to watch the world media equate the conflict between the Palestinians and Israelis as a level playing field, tit for tat. They bomb, we retaliate; a war between equals, or worse, a war between unequals with Israel as the aggressor and the Palestinians as the victims.

As someone who has believed in the peace process for longer than the seven years I lived in Israel, it was hard to watch it crumble like a house of cards, and it\’s even harder to believe that it might really be over.

Israelis Frustrated With Restraint

Amotz Asa-El July 12, 2001

Considering that air, water and fire are essential elements not just of life but of war, Israelis this week could hardly feel more besieged.

Heeding a Tenuous Cease-Fire

Eric Silver June 7, 2001

The suicide bombing last Friday night that killed 20 young Israelis outside a beach-front disco in Tel Aviv trans-formed Israel\’s international image from bully boy to victim.

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