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- "Israel Isn't David . . . It's Goliath" - Matthew Rothschild of The Progressive magazine interviews Irena Klepfisz of The Jewish Women's Committee to End the Occupation
www.progressive.org/mr0701.html
- 'We lost our daughter, but we want peace' - Describing how an Israeli IDF veteran whose young daughter was killed in a suicide bombing now works to educate his countrymen on the reality of the occupation, and to inspire them to work toward a peace agreement, and reminding them of the enormous cost of the continuing confict.
news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=316920
- 12 Answers to 12 Conventional Lies - A rebuttal of common myths and propaganda about the Palestinians, the Intifada, violence, and peace talks, from the Israeli peace group, Gush-Shalom.
www.gush-shalom.org/archives/engfaq.html
- A failure of politics - Describing how present diplomatic ventures seem destined to fail, as is the notion of imposing a resolution on the parties.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,741266,00.html
- A fence in Israel is a nadir in negotiations - Suggesting that it is dangerous for Israel to construct what amounts to a border fence while there is no consensus on where the border lies, that it will complicate IDF actions, and that the fence stands as a counterfeit substitute for peace negotiations.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,753870,00.html
- A Peace as Cold as Ice - An editorial accusing American and Israeli Zionists of hypocrisy in their denial of Israel's role in the historic Arab-Israeli conflicts, and their refusal to acknowledge the right of Palestinians to a state of their own.
www.mediamonitors.net/amr52.html
- A political horizon is crucial - Observing Ariel Sharon's opposition to peace plans which feature timetables and detail mechanisms that would lead to a final status agreement, and suggesting that Sharon's mandate is to bring security, not to quash opportunities for peace.
news.haaretz.co.il/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=%20174315
- Against Israeli Apartheid - Desmond Tutu and Ian Urbina argue that, as South African activists draw explicit analogies between apartheid and current Israeli policies, Israel must reconsider its settlements, and the world should consider economic divestment to pressure Israel to work toward peace.
www.thenation.com/docPrint.mhtml?i=20020715&s=tutu
- Amos Oz: What we Israelis must do to bring peace to our land - A peace activist describes steps Israelis can take to effect a change of government to one that doesn't cater to the settlers, and outlines how he would resolve the conflict through the establishment of a Palestinian state.
argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=286178
- An Unconditional Withdrawal from the Territories is Urgently Needed (lemonde/zmag) - Ami Ayalon, chief of Israeli security Shin Bet 1996-2000 , places blame for violence on Israel and calls for withdrawal and acceptance of a contiguous Palestinian state.
www.zmag.org/content/Mideast/ayalonwithdr.cfm
- Analysis - U.S. agreement to reform PA puts off negotiations - Describing Ariel Sharon as pleased with his understanding of an agreement with the United States that Israel will not have to engage in peace talks until the Palestinian Authority undergoes vast reforms, meaning that no talks will occur for the indefinite future.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=161753
- Arab nations threaten to boycott Mideast conference unless Israel returns lands - Describing the 22 nation Arab League as indicating that its members will not attend a US-sponsored Mideast peace conference until Israel first withdraws its troops from autonomous Palestinian areas in the occupied territories.
www.nj.com/newsflash/international/index.ssf?/cgi-free/getstory_ssf.cgi?a0585_BC_Mideast-ConferencePla&&news&newsflash-international
- Arab summit lies in ruins as Arafat is fenced in - Describing how a potentially historic moment collapsed, due to the collective actions of the United States, Israel and Arab leaders.
news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=278933
- Army study suggests U.S. force of 20,000 - Describing a U.S. analysis of the manpower it would take to enforce a peace deal, the importance of stabilizing the Palestinian territories, and the possibility of attack from Palestinian militants, or from Israeli Mossad operatives seeking to frame Palestinians.
washtimes.com/national/20020405-13268800.htm
- Back to a coalition of pragmatism - An analysis of the thinking of Israelis who oppose a two-state solution, starting with David Ben Gurion's view of the U.N. partition plan as a starting point for a greater state, through Dr. Ze'ev Begin's recent expression of anti-Palestinian sentiment.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=205089
- Beaten and betrayed - Describing the Palestinian perception that Israel has reneged on the Oslo accord with Arafat's collusion, and how Arafat is no longer able to reign in the anger even within his own security forces.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,376651,00.html
- Between Apartheid and Peace - Can Israel Learn from International Experience? - Suggesting that Israel could learn what works and does not work in resolving ethnic conflicts by looking at the successes and failures of nations such as Ireland, Greece, South Africa, and Slovakia and the Czech Republic.
www.tikkun.org/magazine/index.cfm/action/tikkun/issue/tik0101/article/010111a.html
- Bitter reality of peace - Describing how, despite the differences between the conflicts, the United States and Israel should learn the lesson the British learned in Northern Ireland, that you cannot pick the other side's negotiating team, and you have to negotiate for even imperfect peace.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,746789,00.html
- Brave new logic, same old methods - Describing internally inconsistent denials from Israeli defense minister regarding peace negotiations and Israel's missile attack on a Palestinian civilian neighborhood, and the reaction of Palestinians who were working toward a ceasefire. Also covering an attack by Jewish settlers on a photojournalist.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=192990
- Build Palestinian Confidence in What? - Henry Siegman of the Foreign Relations Council, former executive of the American Jewish Congress, argues out that Israel has not offered peace, but only continued occupation.
www.cfr.org/public/pubs/Siegman_MEConflict_Op-ed.html
- Building barriers not bridges - Observing that Ariel Sharon's desire for U.S. funds to build fences and ditches between Israel and the occupied territories reflects his ultimate goal of avoiding a resolution and perpetuating Israel's occupation of Palestinian lands.
news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1964000/1964101.stm
- Coexistence is easy when 'there are no tanks and no curfews' - Discussing the growing Arab Muslim population in the heavily Jewish Brooklyn neighborhoods of Boro Park and Flatbush, and observing the commonalities and cooperative nature of the Jewish-Muslim relationship, including the Haredi, in the absence of an occupation.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=197375
- Dr. Sharon and Mister Hyde - Expressing that like his Party, Ariel Sharon does not want a Palestinian state, and extrapolating from Bush Administration statements that the U.S. doesn't actually want one either, and thus that the will of the majority of Israelis will continue to be ignored.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=164037
- Emerging alternatives in Palestine - Describing the Nonviolent International Solidarity Movement, a group of prominent Palestinians and Europeans seeking to create a diplomatic alternative for peace negotiations, as well as emergent peace movements in Israel.
www.mediamonitors.net/edward46.html
- Fighting until victory - Describing Ariel Sharon's strategy and statements as leaving him locked into his present military approach to the conflict, preventing diplomacy, and questioning what might be gained or lost by forcing a 'regime change' on the Palestinians.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=187952
- For Sharon, Meaning of 'Victory' Grows Unclear - Questioning whether Ariel Sharon's military escalations and refusal to consider a diplomatic option in the Israel-Palestinian conflict could possibly lead to an improvement in the present crisis.
www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A44297-2002Mar31¬Found=true
- From a 'pinpoint' operation to massive Casualties - Describing how Israel's catastrophic rocket attack on a Gaza neighborhood has set back the possibility of a cease-fire, and has extended the necessity of its massive occupation of the West Bank, as well as inspiring international criticism.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=189997
- From Russia, With Wrath - Describing how many Russian Israelis show no sympathy for Palestinians, and express violent, even racist sentiments, while failing to see any parallel between Palestinian sufferering and their own persecution in Russia.
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/04/23/MN228522.DTL
- German peace plan backed, but Israel intends to wall itself off - Describing a peace proposal that is gaining international support, while noting Israel's disinterest in peace talks, desire to impose a resolution on its own terms, and refusal to consider the presence of peacekeeping forces in the occupied territories.
news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=283400
- Give us an alternative - Asserting that a major withdrawal of Israeli forces is necessary to restore Palestinian confidence in a peace process, complicated by Sharon's construction of thirty-four new settlements in the occupied territories, and the need for international pressure to bring about peace talks.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/comment/0,10551,713145,00.html
- He's climbed up the tree again - Describing Ariel Sharon's desire to remove Arafat from diplomatic peace efforts and demands for institutional reforms in the Palestinian Authority as a prerequisite to peace talks as a ploy to avoid ending Israeli settlement in the occupied territories.
news.haaretz.co.il/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=159500
- Hizbullah success puts peace in jeopardy, says Arafat - Describing Arafat's need to demonstrate progress through peace negotiations, as the frustrated population he governs increasingly perceives Hizbullah's terrorism in Lebanon as a more successful approach to resolving an Israeli occupation.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,326427,00.html
- Holy Land Protectorate - Proposes to apply the extra-national concepts that govern the Antarctic Treaty to the region known as the Holy Land, involving a nationality-free zone comprising Israel and Palestine.
www.holylandprotectorate.org
- How the peace was wrecked - Describing violence and deliberate provocations in the occupied territories, and expressing that the hatred brought to the surface following Ariel Sharon's trip to Al Aqsa as crushing the delicate balance of peace to matchwood.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,386160,00.html
- How to cease from a cease-fire - Questioning the point at which Israel's actions against the Palestinians become indistinguishable from terrorism, and calling on the Sharon government to explain if it knew of a Hamas ceasefire offer before bombing a Palestinian civilian neighborhood.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=190579
- Humiliated Powell abandons peace trip - Describing how Powell did not achieve any progress during his Middle East mission, and the reaction to his failure to obtain Israeli compliance with Washington's demand for a withdrawal of its forces from the occupied territories. [Free registration required.]
portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;?xml=/news/2002/04/18/wmid18.xml
- If there's smoke, there's no cease-fire - Examining the shift in Israeli propaganda, before and after the missile attack on a Palestinian civilian neighborhood, and expressing incredulity at the Sharon government's claim that it was an accident that, for the third time, they launched such an attack at a point when a ceasefire seemed possible.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=192169
- In Washington, D.C., Lerner, Cornel West Cuffed for Peace - Describing an attempt to revive the United States peace movement through a call for a resolution of the conflict that is just and fair for both sides, seen by many participants as a decisive moment, and the derisive treatment of the effort by the Washington Post.
www.observer.com/pages/story.asp?ID=5754
- International community 'must do more' - Speaking in London, Israeli and Palestinian leaders assert that their people cannot see past their present situation, and that it will take international involvement to move the situation toward peace.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,724281,00.html
- Israel and the suicide bombers - Providing a brief overview of the history of the Israel-Palestinee conflict, in an effort to help explain the present impasse, and questioning if change can come while either Sharon or Arafat remains in power.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,679444,00.html
- Israel blocks EU and US meetings with Arafat - Describing Israel's refusal to allow diplomatic delegations through its military blockade of Arafat's compound, and U.S. objection to engaging a multilateral peace effort in cooperation with E.U. states.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,678784,00.html
- Israel Destroyed from Within - Brian Whitaker gives reasons why the escalation of conflict by Israel under Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is suicidal. The Guardian.
www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,640884,00.html
- Israeli bomb threat risked peace - Describing how an Israeli general's threat to bomb Arafat's headquarters in Ramallah put peace talks in jeopardy.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,222474,00.html
- Israeli peace protesters out in force - Describing a rally organized by Peace Now, demanding an Israeli withdrawal from the occupied territories and the formation of a Palestinian state.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,714636,00.html
- Latest in the Middle East Conflict - Commentary on Israel's decision to put Marwan Barghouti on trial before a civilian court, and its decision to close the offices of a prominent Palestinian peace activist at Al-Quds University in Jerusalem.
www.npr.org/programs/morning/transcripts/2002/jul/020712.mccarthy.html
- Leftist protestors forcibly turned away at Bethlehem roadblock - Describing how peaceful Israeli protestors, attempting to join a Palestinian protest in the occupied West Bank town of Bethlehem, were beaten by mounted police and targeted by a water cannon. Protestors at another checkpoint were turned away without use of force.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=196099
- Local group hears firsthand of Mideast travails - Describing an organization that takes Americans to Israel and the occupied territories, where they see the effects of the conflict and occupation on both sides, and unlearn stereotypes and prejudices about the Palestinian people.
seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/134439914_kitsapgroup20m.html
- Making life difficult for the Palestinian peace camp - Describing the surprise of Palestinian peace activists at Israel's refusal to allow Jewish activists to join their peaceful demonstration in the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, and the message some infer that Israel doesn't want peace and that the only response is militancy.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=197356
- Middle East Endgame: Getting To A Comprehensive Arab-Israeli Peace Settlement - An analysis of various peace proposals, and the positions of political leaders, with a detailed analysis and report on how Israel can achieve peace with its neighbors and with the Palestinians. From the International Crisis Group.
www.crisisweb.org/projects/showreport.cfm?reportid=706
- Mideast Conflict Commentary - Presenting a short speech by Elie Wiesel, and an editorial by Charles Krauthammer, holding Yasir Arafat responsible for the failure of the peace process.
www.folksites.com/waisobiken5
- Missing a peace - As Israelis and Palestinians escalate their war, they fail to see the new landscape around them - Suggesting that the Palestinians and Israelis should take a step back so as to see the unprecedented opportunity to achieve a true peace, despite the present escalation of violence.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/comment/0,10551,678029,00.html
- My generation never had innocence to lose - A young Israeli argues that it is time for his government to recognize that wrecking Palestinian houses, invading homes, killing hundreds and degrading another nation is not only an inefficient way to fight terror, but also is immoral.
www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A35957-2002Mar15
- Needed Urgently: A New Peace Movement - Arguing that both the Palestinians and the Israelis need to stand up to their extremists and commit themselves to a just, non-violent resolution to their conflict, starting at the grassroots level.
www.tikkun.org/magazine/index.cfm/action/tikkun/issue/tik0109/article/010913a.html
- No peace without a Palestinian state - Two Jewish leaders of South Africa's movement against Apartheid argue that Ariel Sharon is following a doctrine of collective punishment, humiliation and vengeance which can bring only additional misery.
www.sundaytimes.co.za/2002/04/07/insight/in02.asp
- Not by force alone - While applauding the IDF's success in reducing the level of terrorism, observing that diplomatic progress is necessary to effect a true improvement in security, and that Israel has to take responsibility for the lives and welfare of Palestinian civilians under occupation.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=188447
- Palestinian minister urges switch to civil resistance instead of violence - Describing the efforts of the Interior Minister of the Palestinian Authority to end all violence against Israeli targets, including military targets.
news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=330000
- Peace is possible in Israel - Pointing to the fact that peace is not unrealistic once the parties return to a diplomatic path, and faulting the Sharon government for abandoning promising negotiations at Taba and afterward consistently favoring military action over diplomacy.
www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,765238,00.html
- Peaceful Balance - In the Port City of Haifa Israelis and Palestinians Coexist Easily - Sensitivity to Arab concerns by City Hall has created a relaxed multi-ethnic atmosphere in contrast to the battles in other areas nearby. San Francisco Chronicle.
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2001/10/28/MN115857.DTL
- Peres says Shehada bombing was '100 percent mistake' - In the wake of Israel's missile attack on a Palestinian civilian neighborhood, Israel's foreign minister expresses doubt that Ariel Sharon can be considered a partner for peace, and states that Arafat has no crediblity.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=191356
- PM to tell Bush: No pullback to `67 lines - Describing Ariel Sharon's categorical rejection of any peace plan which would entail Israel's withdrawal from all of the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, and his eagerness to exile Arafat.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=174296
- Powell sets out Quartet's aims - Secretary of State Colin Powell describes a peace plan supported by the United States, the United Nations, the European Union and the Russian Federation.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,709828,00.html
- Powell: 'Cease-Fire" Is Not A Relevant Term - Describing the position of Secretary of State Colin Powell that there can be no progress toward a ceasefire until Israel ends its military incursions in the occupied territories, and his call to Palestinians to end terrorism.
www.jpost.com/Editions/2002/04/17/News/News.47144.html
- Pushing - gently - for peace - Describing the joint effort of two Israeli generals and a Palestinian intellectual to develop the framework for a permanent peace plan, evolved from the Camp David proposals and subsequent negotiations at Taba.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=204323
- Retired generals call for Sharon to rethink strategy - Describing the position of a group of Israeli army and intelligence officers that the path to peace lies with a withdrawal from the occupied territories, and not with Sharon's military incursions and escalation of the conflict.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,652662,00.html
- Saddam and Arafat, Sharon and Golda - Examining Israel's historic mistakes in missing opportunities to advance peace, and suggesting that its present conduct is forcing the Palestinian Authority to ally with Iraq, ultimately to both sides' detriment.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=194130
- Saudi official gives Bush eight-point peace plan - Describing Saudi Arabia's proposal to establish peace between Israel and the Palestinians, accompanied by official recognition of Israel by all Arab states.
www.sptimes.com/2002/04/27/Worldandnation/Saudi_official_gives_.shtml
- Secret Middle East talks in Britain - Describing a meeting of peace-minded Palestinian and Israeli leaders, and their plans to continue to work toward a peaceful resolution of the conflict, even as Israel's ruling Likud party refuses to participate.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,725964,00.html
- Sensitivity, sensibility and compatibility - Describing Israel's Attorney General response to the horrifying conditions in a prison camp, the probability that Sharon will make a meager offer to the Palestinians to try to undercut Likud, and the position of Israeli generals that settlements must be removed from the occupied territories.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=187971
- Sharm el Sheikh Fact-Finding Committee Report - United States Department of State - The Mitchell Report and proposals on ending violence and confidence-building measures.
usinfo.state.gov/regional/nea/mitchell.htm
- Sharon accused of shattering ceasefire - Describing continuing allegations that Ariel Sharon ordered a missile attack on a Palestinian neighborhood, ostensibly to assassinate a Hamas leader, because he knew that massive civilian casualties from the attack would prevent a ceasefire from taking hold.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,764637,00.html
- Sharon aims to stir uprising against Arafat - Describing Israeli military incursions in the West Bank as being part of a plan to depose Arafat, and to replace him with a leader who would acquiesce to peace on terms imposed by Israel.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,619206,00.html
- Sharon deals fatal blow to Saudi peace bid - Describing how Ariel Sharon's travel restrictions on Arafat, his refusal to heed U.S. diplomatic pressure, and his inflammatory statements to the press, served as the final nails in the coffin of the Arab Summit.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,674659,00.html
- Sharon demands reform of Palestinian Authority before talks - Describing obstructions to peace talks imposed by Ariel Sharon even as he orders new military offensives in the occupied territories, and ideas for reform of the P.A. and its security apparatus.
news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=301068
- Sharon Rejects Idea of Provisional Palestinian State - Even as his government begins construction of an electronic fence which will essentially follow the 1967 'Green Line', Ariel Sharon insists that Israel will refuse to cooperate with a peace plan which would create any form of Palestinian state. [Free registration required]
www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Israel-Palestinians.html?ex=1024891200&en=7639c9d965fa3cf4&ei=5040
- Sharon rejects new peace plan - Describing Ariel Sharon's opposition to the Saudi peace proposal, his opposition to a full withdrawal from the occupied territories, and his hinting that he will block any peace deal with the Palestinians which does not also bring peace with the entire Arab world.
news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=303744
- Sharon seeks to neutralize Arafat in talks with Bush - Describing Ariel Sharon's goal of convincing President Bush that Arafat should be replaced, and his plan to indefinitely forestall political negotiations to end Israel's occupation of the Palestinian West Bank and Gaza.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=159488
- Sharon the merciless and Arafat the corrupt have nothing meaningful to offer each other - Describing Bush Administration bias on the conflict, and suggesting that White House platitudes are divorced from the realities of what is happening in the occupied territories, and ignore Israel's continued military incursions.
news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=291708
- Sharon To Saudi Peace Plan: Drop Dead - Analyzing Ariel Sharon's actions, in response to the Saudi peace proposal which would have resulted in full recognition of Israel by all Arab states, as being designed to provoke terrorism and prevent the implementation of that plan.
www.antiwar.com/mcconnell/mc030502.html
- Shehada 'hit' sends shockwaves back to Israel - Describing reaction to Israel's missile attack on a residential neighborhood in Gaza, and suggesting that this is the second time in this Intifada that Israel has opted to shatter periods of calm by assassinating suspected militants.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=190472
- Silencing a Palestinian Moderate - Examining Israel's action against a Palestinian peace activist, who would in theory be a model for their desired new leadership, as evidence that leading factions in Israel's government oppose a peace process. [Free registration required].
www.nytimes.com/2002/07/13/opinion/13LEWI.html?ex=1027565435&ei=1&en=387b463484ba73c9
- The case against a mini-Palestine - Describing how a Palestinian statelet with limited autonomy would create serious problems for both Israel and the Palestinians, while doing little or nothing to ameliorate the conflict.
straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/analysis/story/0,1870,126991,00.html
- The dawn of a new yesterday - Explaining the lack of a political horizon for the present conflict by suggesting that Labor is stuck in tomorrow, Likud and the Sharon government are stuck in the past, and nobody is managing the present.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=183466
- The End of Apartheid, Redux - Proposing a peace plan for post-Israeli Palestine.
www.uexpress.com/tedrall/site/viewru.cfm?uc_full_date=20010829
- The Jewish Left and Palestine - Bleats of Dissent - Criticizing the Jewish peace movement for speaking of Israel's mistreatment of the Palestinians in broad, stridently critical terms, but then calling at most for sanctions which could not possibly affect Israel's conduct.
www.counterpunch.org/neumann0427.html
- The Nusseibeh-Ayalon Agreement: Final Draft - The full text of a proposed peace agreement, which would provide the basic framework for a final settlement of the Israel-Palestine conflict, including Israel's settlements in the occupied territories, refugee issues, and Jerusalem.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=204322
- The Palestinian Vision of Peace, by Yasir Arafat - Asserting that two peoples cannot reconcile when one demands control over the other, and uses power rather than the power of logic, and that the Palestinians are the only people in the world still living under foreign occupation. Registration required.
www.nytimes.com/2002/02/03/opinion/03ARAF.html
- The Problem With Sharon - His policy works in the opposite direction - Asserting that Ariel Sharon's military incursions can bring at best a temporary reduction in terror attacks, that peace cannot follow with Sharon's opposition to returning the occupied territories or allowing a Palestinian state, and that U.S. political intervention would be helpful.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/comment/0,10551,677959,00.html
- The Road to Arab-Israeli Peace -
www.tikkun.org/magazine/index.cfm/action/tikkun/issue/tik0101/article/010111b.html
- Two Middle East Wars - An analysis suggesting that Israel needs to separate its war over its occupation of Palestinian lands from its war against extremists who oppose its existence, and should withdraw its troops and settlements from the occupied territories, by Israeli peace activist Amos Oz.
www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020422&s=oz
- U.S. troops would enforce peace under Army study - Describing a U.S. Army analysis, anticipating that 20,000 well-armed troops would be needed to police a peace deal, and concern that certain Palestinian groups might target U.S. forces, or that Israel's Mossad would attack and try to frame Palestinians.
www.iiie.net/Sept11/MossadTargetsUS.html
- US call to negotiate unsettles Israel - Describing Israel as inclined to block an international peace conference, as proposed by the United States.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,709946,00.html
- Walking The Via Dolorosa - "Odd that Israelis do not see that every time our space is tightened, their security takes a step backward. We are left with nothing but anger..."
www.mediamonitors.net/samah17.html
- Wanted: A peace-seeking leader - Describing Ehud Barak's bigotry against Arabs, and Ariel Sharon's similar attitudes and desire to annex the occupied territories to Israel, as leading impediments to peace, and how the Labor party's complicity makes it look ridiculous.
news.haaretz.co.il/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=168196
- We cannot let death have dominion - Contrasting the stories of a law-abiding Palestinian mechanic, expelled to Gaza as part of an Israeli collective punishment, and an Israeli peace activist, both of whom lost sons in the current conflict.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=195763
- What Can Separation Mean? - Asserting that due to the development of Israeli infrastructure and illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, it is too late for a two state solution, and that it is time to move forward to a final resolution. By Edward Said.
www.mediamonitors.net/edward22.html
- Where's the strategy here? - A former Member of the Knesset and Israeli ambassador to the United Nations questions Israel's approach to its occupation and confrontation with the Palestinians.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=153012
- Who's the eccentric here? - Observing that Ariel Sharon, whose escalated military actions have been associated with deteriorating security, has yet to consider peace negotiations, and suggesting his actual goal is to avoid returning the occupied territories.
news.haaretz.co.il/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=%20174307
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