September 1999, TOC
Interpreting the Middle East for North
Americans—
Interpreting North America for the Middle East
The U.S. and the Israeli-Palestinian
Peace Process
 6 Will
Ehud Barak Revive the Peace Process? Two Views:
Barak Will Have to Sacrifice Most of the West Bank Settlements—Alon
Ben-Meir
The New Israeli Government Resumes the Slow Crawl Toward Peace—Rachelle
Marshall
9 Barak Seeking to Sell Bibi’s
Peace to a Gullible U.S.—Eugene Bird
12 Muslim and Arab Americans
Start Coordinated Political Action on Secret Evidence, Jerusalem,
Elections—Richard H. Curtiss
14 Gephardt Drops Only Muslim
Panel Appointment Under Pressure From Extreme Zionist Groups—Pat
McDonnell Twair
16 House Bill to Repeal Use
of Secret Evidence Gets 19 Sponsors as National Awareness of
Abuses Grows—Richard H. Curtiss
17 Using “Secret Evidence” Based
on Translation, Transcription Errors, U.S. Orders Two Iraqi
Kurds Deported—Betty Molchany
19 Israeli Textbooks and Children’s
Literature Promote Racism and Hatred Toward Palestinians and
Arabs—Maureen Meehan
21 By Starting Now, Arab Americans
and Muslim Americans Can Make Election Year 2000 a Turning
Point—Richard H. Curtiss
35 Palestinian, Israeli Academics
Participate in Conference on Ecology and Environmental Quality—Sr.
Elaine Kelley
42 What Israeli Historians Say
About 1948 Ethnic Cleansing—Charley Reese
43 Israel’s Cult of Disinformation
and the Complications of Basing a Policy Upon a Foundation
of Lies—Andrew I. Killgore
45 U.S. Aid to Israel Now Exceeds
$90 Billion—Richard H. Curtiss
46 Law Suit by Two Shabak Interrogators
Reveals Much About Treatment of Their Victims—Victor
Ostrovsky
48 Christian Peacemakers Told
Palestinian Authority Is “Skimming Our Taxes for Personal
Gain”—Julie Hart
86 Chicago Palestinian-American
Describes 36 Days of Israeli Detention After He Tried to Visit
the West Bank—Raeed N. Tayeh
98 U.S. Decisiveness on Kosovar
Refugees and What It Should Mean for the Palestinians—Sherri
Muzher
Special Reports
23 U.S. Cautious in Dealing With Iran Turbulence—Richard
H. Curtiss
25 In Los Angeles, 5,000 Iranians
Rally in Support of Political Prisoners and Against “Rule
of the Mullahs”—Pat and Samir Twair
26 Indonesia’s Elections
Point Toward Transfer of Power to Megawati Sukarnoputri Party
in Coalition With Islamists—John Gee
27 Reports of Israeli-Iranian
Contracts Cause Caspian Countries, Oil Companies to Reassess
Possibilities—Gordon Feller
28 Shrinking of Aral Sea Causes
Regional Health Crisis—Lucy Jones
30 Kargil Crisis Recedes in
Wake of Clinton-Sharif Meeting, But Menacing Kashmir Problem
Remains Unsolved—M.M. Ali
33 Shafiq W. Kombargi—Andrew
I. Killgore
37 Banning of Mehmet’s
Book of First-Hand Accounts of Kurd War Highlights Turkey’s “Vietnam
Syndrome”—Jon P. Gorvett
55 West Coast Ensemble’s “Balkan
Women” Portrays Muslim Terror in Serbian Prison—Pat
McDonnell Twair
96 World’s Muslims Did
a Better Job Getting Relief to Kosovars Than in Telling World
About It—Delinda C. Hanley
100 In Kosovo War, VOA and Other
International Broadcasters Played a Key Behind-the-Scenes Role—Alan
Heil
CYPRUS: Coping With a Quarter-Century of
Separation
56 Cyprus Dispute: 25 Years
of Deadlock—Jon P. Gorvett
58 The Cyprus Problem: Two
Views
Lessons From the Kosovo Conflict for Resolution of the Cyprus
Problem—Ambassador Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis
Why, So Far, the Cyprus Problem Has Remained Unsolved—Michael
Moran
62 TRNC Washington Representative
Ahmet Erdengiz—Janet McMahon
64 Ambassador Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis—Janet
McMahon
66 Cyprus in History—A
Chronology
67 Cyprus’ Greek and Turkish Populations
Pulled Further Apart With Time—Jon P. Gorvett
69 Inter-Communal Contacts Help
Build Links for the Future of Cyprus—Benjamin
J. Broome
71 Nicosia’s “Mayor
for Life” Lellos Demetriades—Janet McMahon
72 Having Overcome 1974 Upheaval,
Cyprus Now Boasts Healthy Economy, Anticipates EU Membership—Janet
McMahon
74 Presidential Commissioner
Manolis Christofides Oversees Relations With Cyprus’ “Other” Minorities—Janet
McMahon
75 Cyprus’ Rebuilt Tourism
Industry Looks to the Future
77 European Court of Human
Rights Rules in Favor of Woman Seeking to Regain Family Home
in Kyrenia—Janet McMahon
79 MP Kate Clerides—Janet
McMahon
80 Government Spokesman Christos
Stylianides Discusses Cyprus, EU Membership—Janet
McMahon
80 Democratic Rally Spokesman
Prodromos Prodromou—Janet McMahon
81 AKEL Communist Party’s
Andros Kyprianou—Janet McMahon
82 Greek and Turkish Cypriot
University Students Have More In Common Than Expected—Benjamin
J. Broome
84 Cypriot Archeological Officer Deplores
Theft and Dispersion of Antiquities From Northern Cyprus—Janet
McMahon
Departments
3 Letters to the Editor
32 United Nations Report: Diplomats Spar
Over Iraq, Libya, Western Sahara and Israeli-Occupied Territories—Ian
Williams
38 Issues in the News—Compiled
by Delinda C. Hanley
49 People Watch: Moroccan Monarch’s
Funeral Spotlights Middle East Changes—Lucille
Barnes
50 Other People’s Mail
87 Southern California Chronicle:
Lebanese Ambassador Denounces Israeli Blitz on Civilian Areas,
Power Plants—Pat and Samir Twair
89 Churches for Middle East
Peace to Focus on Oslo’s Final Status Issues—Dr.
Fred Strickert
92 Mahjabeen’s Musings:
We Can Mix Morality With Politics By Changing the System, Not
Ourselves—Mahjabeen Islam-Husain
93 Islam in America: Jailing
of Algerian Parliamentarian Anwar Haddam in U.S. Is Tragic
Example of Misuse of “Secret Evidence”—El-Hajj
Mauri’ Saalakhan
102 Facts for Your File: May,
June 1999 Chronology of U.S.-Middle East Relations—Compiled
by Janet McMahon
108 Middle East History: September
1988: Muslim Fundamentalists of Hamas Challenge PLO for Palestinian
Support—Donald Neff
110 Trade and Finance: IMF Praises
Program to Deal With Turkey’s 60-Percent-Plus Inflation
(But Puts a Hold on Support)—Colin MacKinnon
113 Canada Calling: Canadian
Nuclear Fusion Sale to Iran Under Fire—Faisal
Kutty
121 Muslim-American Activism:
24th ICNA Annual Convention Attracts Heavy Participation
125 Arab-American Activism:
ADC’s 16th National Convention Gives Arab Americans a
Pro-Active Agenda
130 Waging Peace: NGOs and
Community Organizations in Iran
132 Diplomatic Doings: St. John’s University
Confers Degree on Egyptian President
134 Human Rights: Peace and
Justice Foundation Launches Public Information Campaign on
U.S. Government’s Use of Secret Evidence
138 Book Review: The Agent:
The Truth Behind the Anti-Muslim Campaign in America—Reviewed
by Richard H. Curtiss
153 Bulletin Board
154 Publishers’ Page |
