—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 Did Yasser Arafat Give
Away the Store, or "Make Peace Irreversible"?Richard
H. Curtiss
7 Jerusalem: May I Forget Thee for the Moment?
(coming soon)Eugene Bird
8-11 What Delayed Implementation Of The Oslo AgreementFour
Views
8 Reaping the Whirlwind:
The Price of Israeli SettlementsRachelle Marshall
9 To Secure Agreement,
Yasser Arafat Has Played Precious Cards Paul Findley
10 Israel Prepares the
Ground for an Apartheid Autonomy in the TerritoriesFrank
Collins
11 It is Not Conceivable
That the U.S. Allows Israel to Violate One Deadline After
AnotherSalim Al-Zanoun
12 U.S. is Funding Israel's
Multibillion-Dollar Arrow BoondoggleShawn L. Twing
13 Israeli Refusal to
Yield Control of West Bank Water Forces Deferral of IssueFrank Collins
16 Rabin Implements Sharon's West Bank Settlement
PlansIsrael Shahak
20 U.S. Jewish Establishment
and Zionism, Not Jews, Feel CrisisLenni Brenner
21 Senate Call for Packwood
Expulsion Ended Protection of Israel LobbyRichard H. Curtiss
28 13 Years After Massacre,
Beirut's Palestinians Are Still Under SiegeStephen
J. Sosebee
29 Israeli Prime Minister:
Palestinians Will Have Only Entity, Not StateIsraeli
Television Interview with Yitzhak Rabin
48 U.S.-Based Group Planning
Memorial at Site of Deir Yassin MassacreDaniel McGowan
54 Two-Week Holy Land
Tour Frightens, Angers and InspiresNuha Marchi
Special Reports
15 In Bosnia Dispute,
All Parties Are Not EqualRichard H. Curtiss
31 In Memoriam: Margaret
Dodge Garrett, 1917 1995Andrew I. Killgore
38 Gulf Security and the
GCC Five Years LaterMichael Collins Dunn
39 Bad News From Saudi Arabia
Strengthens Ciller's Hand in TurkeyJames Dorsey
47 Senate Ends Arms Ban
to PakistanM.M. Ali
50 India's Right-Wing
BJP Positioning for 1996 ElectionsM.M. Ali
51 A Bit Like Bosnia:
U.N. Peacekeepers in South LebanonMarilyn Raschka
52 In Saudi Arabia: Discussing
"That Which Was, That Which Is and That Which Will Be"George
Thompson
53 By Military Aircraft
to Dhahran, 37 Years AgoGrace Halsell
55 Marzieh, Iran's Best-Loved
Singer, Touring for Resistance GroupRichard H. Curtiss
58 Arnold Tovell, Promoter
of Egyptian Nobel Laureate, Retires From AUC PressRev.
L. Humphrey Walz
77 Mideast Policymakers
Conference Examines Peace Process, Gulf SecurityShawn L. Twing
Departments
3 Letters to the Editor
17 Issues in Islam: Moderates,
Radicals Drifting Apart as Islamism Enters New PhaseGreg
Noakes
19 U.N. Report: Holbrooke's
Plan Contains Problems for Bosnia and PeaceIan
Williams
22 Issues in the NewsCompiled
by Shawn L. Twing
32 The Cost of Israel:
Once Again, Israel Gets Away With Spending U.S. Aid on West Bank
Settlements Lucille Barnes
32 Election Watch: FOIs Like Clinton, Mourn
Wilson, Distrust Powell, Fear DoleRichard H. Curtiss
34 People Watch: Richard
Holbrooke, Peter Jennings Have Reliable Middle East SourcesRichard
H. Curtiss
40 Science Watch: DNA
Links Europeans to Middle Eastern Farmers, Eurasian NomadsKurt
Holden
41 Education: The Fall
Lineup of Middle East-Related ConferencesBetsy
Barlow
42 Other People's Mail
56 Book Reviews:
Inside the Arab WorldReviewed
by Greg Noakes
Kashmir: Paradise LostReviewed
by Rafique Kathwari
Palestine: A Nation OccupiedReviewed
by Stephen Sosebee
68 California Chronicle:
Ten Years After Bombing, Life Goes On for Norma OdehPat
and Samir Twair
70 American Muslim Activism:
Thousands Protest U.N. Inaction in BosniaShawn
L. Twing
71 American Jews and Israel:
Rabin Government Attacks Oslo II CriticsNathan
Jones
72 Waging Peace: National
Democratic Institute Discusses Jordanian ElectionsShawn
L. Twing
73 North American Muslim
Chronicle: Muslim Groups Support Parents in Custody DisputeFaisal
Kutty
75 Diplomatic Doings:
Tunisian Foreign Minister Visits U.S.Shawn L.
Twing
75 Arab American Activism:
NAAA Welcomes Relaxation of U.S.-Lebanon Travel BanShawn
L. Twing
78 Christianity and the
Middle East: Religious Leaders Speak on Significance of Jerusalem
to Three FaithsRev. L. Humphrey Walz
80 Middle East History
October 1993: The Marginalization of
U.S. Mideast Experts
November 1917: Britain Issues the Balfour
DeclarationDonald Neff
111 August 1995 Chronology
of U.S.-Middle East RelationsCompiled by Janet McMahon
121 Bulletin Board
122 Publishers' Page |