—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 How to Tell if U.S.
Mideast Effort Is Serious or Just P.R.—Richard H. Curtiss
6 The Troubling Reticence
Over U.S. "Terrorism" Cases—Richard H. Curtiss
7 The Grotesque Situation
in Hebron: Where Israeli Soldiers and Settlers Compete to Harass
Inhabitants—Jane Adas
9 The U.S. Lends a Hand
as Israel Revives Old Hostilities—Rachelle Marshall
10 Guns Galore Trained
on Palestinian President Yasser Arafa—Paul Findley
11 Suicide Bombs Result
of Netanyahu's Trickery and Arafat's Inaction—Maureen
Meehan
12 The Bridge That Failed:
U.S. Relations With the Middle East and Israel—Eugene
Bird
14 As Netanyahu Dismantles
Peace Process, Israelis Wait in Vain for Clinton Intervention—Richard
H. Curtiss
15 Could Europe Produce
Middle East Peace?—John V. Whitbeck
18 Middle East Peace
Facilitation Act Threatened—Shirl McArthur
20 Congress and the Pentagon
Add $464 Million in Aid to Israel for 1998—Shawn L.
Twing
22 The Day Eleanor Roosevelt
Passed Through the Mandelbaum Gate—Andrew I. Killgore
23 Current Translations
and Commentary From Israel's Hebrew-Language Press—Dr.
Israel Shahak
25 The U.S.-Israel "Strategic
Relationship" and Those Who Choose to Support It—Richard
H. Curtiss
29 By Any Other Name,
It's Still Annexation—Edna Homa Hunt
31 Eradication of a 3,000-Year-Old
Palestinian Village—Jane Adas
37 When Israel's Mossad
Set Out to "Break" Me, It Found Its Helpers Here at Home—Victor
Ostrovsky
92 Distortion and Lethargy—Dr.
Abdul Qadar Tash
93 U.S.-Israeli Plans
for Hegemony in the Middle East; Those Who Refuse to Help Themselves—Khaled
Al-Maeena
97 The Zimmermann Telegram
and the Balfour Declaration—Shakir A. Abbas
99 Builders for Peace:
Another Casualty in Dying Peace Process—Eugene Bird
100 "Forboding Due
to American Actions" Found by Political Pilgrims of CNI—Roxanne
Hanson-Anderson
Special Reports
17 As U.S. Shifts in
Bosnia, NATO Gets Serious About War Criminals—Richard
H. Curtiss
33 Journalists Are Cautious
in Criticizing Jordan's Tough New Press Law—Manal Omar
34 Lebanon Travel Ban
Lifted—Shirl McArthur
35 Lebanon Reborn: Hope
Among the Headlines—Marilyn Raschka
36 Turkey's Military
Continues Crackdown on Islam in Public Life—James M.
Dorsey
44 Fifty Years of India
and Pakistan: Dual Histories of Lost Opportunities—M.M.
Ali
35 Central Asia: Transcaucasus Today Conference
Held at American University of Armenia—Gordon Feller
87 Egypt's Coptic Christians:
Caught Between Renewal and Persecution—Rev. Don Wagner
Departments
3 Letters to the Editor
27 Congress Watch: Congressional
Hearings Target Middle East—Shirl McArthur
32 United Nations Report:
Plain Talk From General Assembly's Special Report on Israel's
Jews-Only Settlements—Ian Williams
38 Issues in the News—Compiled
by Shawn L. Twing
47 Canada Calling: Toronto
Man Charged With Inciting Hatred Toward Muslims—Faisal
Kutty
48 Other People's Mail (coming soon)
55 Muslim-American Activism:
Annual ICNA Convention Draws More Than 3,000
60 Arab-American Activism: AAI
Says Congressional Meddling Disrupts the Peace Process
61 Waging Peace: American Community
School in Beirut, Lebanon Holds Sixth Triennial Reunion
64 Diplomatic Doings:
Azerbaijan's President's Visit Makes Waves in Washington
65 Human Rights: SIGI
Presents Human Rights Manual at MEI
66 California Chronicle:
Rashid Khalidi Compares Peace Process to Titanic, Issue
of Jerusalem to Iceberg That Sank It—Pat and Samir
Twair
70 Middle East History:
October 1973: Nixon Administration Ignores Saudi Warning, Bringing
on Oil Boycott—Donald Neff
73 Christianity and the Middle
East: Quakers Continue Fight Against Palestinian Deportations—Rev.
L. Humphrey Walz
74 Mahjabeen's Musings:
A Muslim Traveler Along the American Way It Can Be Hell on the
Other Side of the Doctor-Patient Relationship—Mahjabeen
Islam-Husain
75 Education: Edward
Said Honored for His Contributions—Betsy Barlow
89 Northwest News: Officials
From Egypt, Yemen, Tunisia and Mauritania Tour U.S. to Study Role
of Legislators in Democracy—Elaine Kelley
94 Northeast News: For
Kurdish Refugees, Resettlement in Boston Brings New Battles
—David P. Johnson Jr.
102 Facts for Your Files: June,
July 1997 Chronology of U.S.-Middle East Relations—Compiled
by Janet McMahon
105 Book Review:
India, Pakistan and the United States:
Breaking With the Past—Reviewed by Dr. Syed Rifaat
Hussain
120 Bulletin Board
121 Publishers' Page
122 Editors' Essays |
