—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 Israel Celebrates
Its 50th Anniversary as Palestinians Struggle for Their Own Independence—Rachelle
Marshall
8 Scenes From
Palestine—Edward Said
10 Shooting
of Infamous Kiryat-Arba-Born “Cowboy” by Jewish Settler
Stirs Tension in Hebron Hills—Maureen Meehan
11 Netanyahu
Tactics Forcing Arafat Into Making Another Dangerous Concession
to Israel—Richard H. Curtiss
13 Celebrating
50 Years of Israeli Make-Believe—Andrew I. Killgore
14 Six Iraqi
Dissidents Refused Entry to the U.S. on Secret Charges—Kate
Seelye
16 The Israel
Lobby That Couldn’t Shoot Straight on Iran—Andrew
I. Killgore
23 Albright
Peace Team Out-Spun and Out-Maneuvered by Netanyahu and Under-Supported
by Clinton—Eugene Bird
25 Albright’s
Combative Personality May Hold Key to Mideast Peace —Richard
H. Curtiss
28 The Vatican Statement on the Holocaust,
“We Remember: A Reflection on the Shoah”: Two Views
—Dr. Alfred M. Lilienthal
—William Hughes
32 Tension
Builds Over 3,500 Palestinian Prisoners Israel Holds in Defiance
of Its Oslo Commitments—Stephen J. Sosebee
45 At Age
50, Israel Should Admit Its Responsibility to Jonathan Pollard—Victor
Ostrovsky
51 Israel
at 50: For Many American Jews It Has Become a False God—Allan
C. Brownfeld
53 An Israeli’s
Passover Reflections on His Country’s 50th Anniversary—Neve
Gordon
60 Syria and
Lebanon Wage a Counter-Offensive Against Israel’s Maneuver
on 425—Carole Dagher
112 What Christians
Don’t Know About Israel—Grace Halsell
117 The Middle
West Meets the Middle East—Andrew I. Killgore
The U.S. Congress and the 1998 Elections
20 Twelve
Arab Americans to Campaign for Federal Posts in the U.S.—Dr.
James Zogby
21 U.S. Muslim
Groups Hold First National Coordination Meeting to Discuss Election
Strategies for 1998-2000—Richard H. Curtiss
22 Israeli
Lobbying Shows Uncommon Subtlety—Shirl McArthur
43 With Largely
One-Sided Witnesses, Hearings Cover Iraq, Middle East Peace Process,
and Sanctions—Shirl McArthur
49 After Much
Pro-Israel Posturing, Most Pending Middle East Legislation Has Little
Chance of Passage—Shirl McArthur
Special Reports
17 Being There: Spring
1998 in the Persian/Arabian Gulf—Richard H. Curtiss
27 Dr. George
Atiyeh: A Legacy of Scholarship, Excellence and Resilience —Ghada
Khouri
35 UAE’s
Dynamic and Modern Cultural Foundation Just Keeps on Growing—Richard
H. Curtiss
54 A U.S.
Government-Run “Radio Free Iraq” Won’t Help Bring
Down Saddam Hussain—Hans Johnson
57 With Billions
of Petrodollars at Stake, Russia Offers Compromise on Whether Caspian
Is Sea or Lake—Gordon Feller
58 Should
Egypt Have a Free Press or Not? Mubarak Government Can’t Seem
to Make Up Its Mind—James J. Napoli
59 India’s
New BJP Government Postpones Its Hard-Line Agenda—M.M.
Ali
61 To Enter
the Garden: The Background and Growth of the Recently Banned Turkish
Welfare Party—Louis Mitler
63 Partners
for Peace—Jerusalem Women Speak Tour: A Case Study in Generating
Media Coverage—Peter Wirth
Departments
3 Letters to the Editor
37 Defense
and Intelligence: Pressure for Pollard, More Money for the Arrow,
and UAE Fighter Buy Top the News—Shawn L. Twing
38 Issues
in the News—Compiled by Shawn L. Twing
47 United
Nations Report: Balancing Double Standards at the U.N.—Ian
Williams
56 Canadian
Chronicle: Stateless Palestinians Ordered Deported From Canada—Faisal Kutty
64 Northwest
News: Oregon Groups Sponsor Teach-In on U.S. Policy in Iraq—Elaine
Kelley
66 Seeing
the Light: A Personal Retrospective—Rob Swanson
67 Northeast
News: As Somali Civil War Smolders, Bostonians Help Refugees Adjust
to New Life in U.S.—David P. Johnson, Jr.
71 Muslim-American
Activism: U.S. Muslim Leaders Meet Visiting Malaysian Official
73 Human
Rights: Fatima Mernissi Speaks at MEI
74 Arab-American
Activism: President Clinton to Address Arab American Conference
75 Diplomatic
Doings: U.N. Holds Brussels Conference in Support of Palestinians
75 Waging
Peace: Lisa Majaj Speaks on Palestinian-American Literature
79 Trade
and Finance: Latest Figures on Gaza and West Bank: More Gloom—Colin
MacKinnon
80 The Middle East in History
May 1948: From Its Beginnings, Israeli
Policy Promoted War, Not Peace—Donald Neff
June 1980: Jewish Terrorists
Try to Kill Three Mayors of Palestinian Cities—Donald
Neff
84 Other People’s
Mail
104 California
Chronicle: L.A. Police Collaborate in Blocking View of Deir Yassin
Remembrance Vigil at Museum of Tolerance—Pat and Samir
Twair
108 EDUCATION:
Conferences on 50 Years of Palestinian Dispossession—Betsy
Barlow
110 Christianity
and the Middle East: Gulf Interchurch Office Expands, Moves From
Bahrain to Dubai—Rev. L. Humphrey Walz
113 Tri-State
Talk: Iraq Sanctions Challenge—Jane Adas
115 Mahjabeen’s
Musings: Muslim Self-Determination—It’s Time!—Mahjabeen
Islam-Husain
121 FACTS
FOR YOUR FILES: March 1998 Chronology of U.S.-Middle East Relations—Compiled
by Janet McMahon
123 1998 AET Choir of Angels
124 Book Reviews
Remembering Deir Yassin—Reviewed
by Raja Abu-Jabr
Day of the Long Night—Reviewed
by Michael S. Lee
137 Bulletin
Board
138 Publishers’
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