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—Voices from the Sensible Center—

Interpreting the Middle East for North Americans—
Interpreting North America for the Middle East

The U.S. and the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process

6 Rabin Holds Out for a Palestinian BantustanRachelle Marshall

9 The Jahalin Bedouin: "Don’t Make Us Refugees-Again!"Maxine Kaufman Nunn

11 Yossi Bellin: Peres’ "Poodle" is a Central Figure in the Peace ProcessLean T. Hadar

12 The Israelization of American Policy is No Paranoid FantasyEugene Bird

14 Palestinian Investors Eye West Bank Opportunities CautiouslyMary C. Cook

15 Temporary Commission May Speed World Bank Palestinian FundingFrank Collins

Human Rights Group Denounces Israeli Summary Execution—Palestine Human Rights Information Center

16 Israel’s State-Assisted Terrorism: "Settler" as Armed CombatantsIsrael Shahak

17 Pollard Clemency Campaign Poses Dilemma for CongressLucille Barnes

Senate Voting Record for 1993—Allan C. Kellum

28 Media Coverage of Bobby Ray Inman: Pro-Israel McCarthyism in ActionRichard H. Curtiss

29 Safire Media Attacks Betan When Inman Blocked Israeli Access to  U.S. Satellite IntelligenceExcerpts from Admiral Bobby Ray Inman’s news conference

More Wounded Palestinian Children Being Treated in U.S.—Stephen Sosebee

Though Courts Reduce L.A. Eight to Two, Threat to Free Speech  Remains—Kat Casa

Middle East History: The 1982 CIA Revelation of Israeli Spying  on Americans—Donald Neff

Special Reports

7 Moment of Truth Arrives With Overt Invasion of BosniaRichard H. Curtiss

13 Still Time for U.S. to Save Bosnia Without InterventionSen. Orrin G. Hatch

18 Lebanon’s Palestinians Advised "Don’t Build Big Dreams"Marilyn Raschka

31 Charting a Path Toward a Landmark Syrian-Israeli AgreementNabil Kaylani

Only a Return to the Rule of Law Can Save Algeria—Aicha Lemsine

"Forces of Change: Women Artists of the Arab World"—Ian Williams

Salman M. (Sam) Hilmy: An Iraqi-Born Voice of America—Richard H. Curtiss

State Department’s Bureaus of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs

The Subcontinent: Conflicting Moods Among a Billion of the World’s  People—M.M. Ali

Departments

Letters to the Editor

Issues in the News

The Party Line

32 Myths and Facts

33 People Watch

35 The Cost of Israel to US Taxpayers: California Earthquake and  Aid to Israel: Disasters of Equal Magnitude?—Richard H. Curtiss

36 Lobby Watch: Call to Divert Russian Jews From U.S. to Israel Draws Angry Criticism

37 Demographics: Survey Indicates Only 1.4 Million Jews Remain in Former U.S.S.R.—Richard H. Curtiss

Other People’s Mail

United Nations Report

Issues in Islam: Muslims in US Military Make Advances—Greg Noakes

Seeing the Light: A Handbook for Successful Negotiations With a Hostile Librarian—T.R.

California Chronicle: John Sununu Addresses Republican Arab-Americans—Pat and Samir Twair

Book Reviews:
The Forgotten Queens of Islam—Reviewed by Grace Halsell

With Friends Like You: What Israelis Really Think of American Jews—John Dirlik

Human Rights: Syria Accused of Holding “Longest-Serving Political Prisoners”—R. Clemente Holder

Arab-American Activism: Arab Americans Combat “Boycott Hysteria”

Jews and Israel: Attempt to Divert Immigrants to Israel Divides U.S. Jews

Quatsch Watch

Christianity and the Middle East: Palestinian Priest to Receive World Methodist Council Award

December 1993 Chronology of U.S.-Middle East Relations—Compiled by Janet McMahon

Bulletin Board

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