October/November 1999, TOC
Washington Report
—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
12 Albright
as “Facilitator” Tries to Sacrifice Bunt—Eugene Bird
13 Commander
Barak Tries an End Run Around Wye—Rachelle Marshall
15 Barak’s
Government Handling Jewish Settlers With Kid Gloves Three Months
After His Election—Neve Gordon
22 The Israeli Deception That Led to the Bombing
of Pan American Flight 103 Over Lockerbie, Scotland—Richard
H. Curtiss
25 Palestinian Police Undergo Human Rights Training
to Curb Brutality They Learned in Israeli Prisons—Maureen
Meehan
27 Buffeted by False Media Accusations, Former
Mossad Case Officer Ostrovsky Starts His Own Web Site—Victor
Ostrovsky
36 Jobs, Markets and Human Rights for Palestinians—Roy
Skinner
46 Defamation,
Revisionist Style: Commentary Seeks to Prove Prominent Palestinian
Doesn’t Exist—Edward W. Said
47 A Foundation
With an Agenda, an Author for Hire, and His Virtual Reality “Straw
Arabist”—Andrew I. Killgore
48 Status of
Middle East-Related Bills at the Congressional Recess—Shirl
McArthur
49 Which U.S.
Presidential Candidates Should Muslim Americans Support?—Richard
H. Curtiss
51 Money Bills
Hold Some Middle East Surprises; Wye River Funding Withheld—Shirl
McArthur
52 Are Soviet
Jews There to Stay or Is Israel Just a Way Station en Route to the
West?—Andrew I. Killgore
53 The Kennedys
and I: JFK’s Bold Words on the Middle East Conflict—Dr. Alfred
M. Lilienthal
55 The Unreported
Middle East Catalyst for Richard Nixon’s Downfall—Richard
H. Curtiss
57 Palestine,
the Balfour Declaration and Why America Entered the Great War—John
Cornelius
66 ADL’s Unconvincing
Charges Against Salam Al-Marayati—Rachelle Marshall
67 Rafeeq Jaber:
An Energetic Muslim Visionary and Fearless Palestinian-American
Political Activist—Richard H. Curtiss
68 Under Barak,
Isolation of Bantustans, Separation of West Bank Palestinians From
Jerusalem Continues—Matthew Brubacher
69 Dheisheh
Refugee Camp Dance Troupe Embarks on First American Tour in September—Roxane
Assaf
70 What Do Israelis
Do During a Drought? Destroy the Cisterns in Which Palestinians
Store Rainfall—Jamey Bouwmeester
78 With Total
U.S. Aid to Israel Already Exceeding $91 Billion, Congress Resists
Clinton Pressure for More—Richard H. Curtiss
83 Reform Judaism
is Abandoning Its Universalist Roots and Embracing Jewish Nationalism—Allan
C. Brownfeld
Special Reports
6 After Earthquake, Turks’
Disgust With Government Offset by Improved Image of Themselves—Jon
P. Gorvett
8 Massive State
Failure Highlights Need to Review Turkey’s Vibrant But Flawed Democracy—Marvine
Howe
11 Turkey’s
Kurdish Workers’ Party Rebels Pledge Unilateral End to Armed Struggle,
Withdrawal From Turkey—Jon P. Gorvett
16 South Lebanon:
Prospects for Peace—Text and Photos by JoMarie Fecci
19 Lebanese
Residents of Atiri: Living Between the Lines—Text and Photos
by JoMarie Fecci
20 Together
at Last: After Civil Wars, Sectarian Split, Lebanese Army Maintains
Cohesion in Dealing With Israel and Party Militias—Text and
Photos by JoMarie Fecci
24 Rebuilding
for Survival and Reconciliation in Kosovo: The Really Hard Part—Alan
Heil
28 Iran Regime’s
Leading Reformers and Conservatives Unite, Briefly, to Put Down
Mass Protests—Dr. John P. Nordin
29 ”The New
Libya” Backs a U.S.-Libyan Dialogue Group—Eugene Bird
31 Now Malaysia
Prepares for Elections—John Gee
33 As Islam
Replaces Communism in Uzbekistan, Economy Stagnates, Men Remain
“More Equal” Than Women—Lucy Jones
35 After Decades
of Disappointments in Central Asian and Caucasus States, Post Mortem
Begins—Gordon Feller
37 Bring China
Into Kashmir—Mowahid H. Shah
42 Until NATO
Restores Order, Revenge, Criminality Rule—Peter Lippman
43 Kosovo: A
Watershed in U.S.-Islamic Relations—M.A. Muqtedar Khan
44 India Goes
to Polls Again—M.M. Ali
103 Golden Mummies
Abound at Bahariya Oasis—Pat McDonnell Twair
120 America’s
Public Schools and Libraries Need Your Help to Fight the “Thought
Police”—Delinda C. Hanley
Departments
3 Letters to the Editor
38 Issues in the News—Compiled by Delinda
C. Hanley
59 Other People’s
Mail
64 People
Watch: Russian Money Churning Has an Israeli Connection—Lucille
Barnes
71 Northern
California Chronicle: Iraqi Artist Displays Watercolors in San Francisco—Elaine
Pasquini
74 Canada Calling:
Canada’s Talisman Energy Company’s Sudan Operations Targeted by
Boston “Anti-Slavery Group”—Faisal Kutty
75 Southern
California Chronicle: Muslims, Jews Renew Efforts to Forge Code
of Ethics—Pat and Samir Twair
79 Trade and Finance: U.S. Slowly Changes Sanctions
Policy—Colin MacKinnon
80 EDUCATION:
AAUG Schedules Annual Convention Oct. 22-24 in White Plains, NY—Betsy
Barlow
81 Middle East
History: November 1967: De Gaulle Calls Jews Domineering, Israel
an Expansionist State—Donald Neff
85 Islam in
America: The Real Challenge Facing Muslims in North America—El-Hajj
Mauri’ Saalakhan
88 Mahjabeen’s
Musings: Brilliant Pakistanis and the Sad State of Pakistan—Mahjabeen
Islam-Husain
90 CHRISTIANITY
AND THE MIDDLE EAST: Preparations for the Jubilee Holy Land Pilgrimage—Fred
Strickert
105 Muslim-American
Activism: Muslim and Arab Americans Win Burger King Battle
110 Arab-American
Activism: The Bethlehem Association’s Annual Reunion
113 Waging
Peace: Daytonians Reach Out to Iraqi Children
119 Diplomatic Doings: Departing Egyptian Ambassador
Salutes Increasing Influence of Arab Americans
122 Facts for
Your File: July 1999 Chronology of U.S.-Middle East Relations—Compiled
by Janet McMahon
124 Book Review:
Scattered Like Seeds—Reviewed by Andrew I. Killgore
138 Publishers’
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