Articles

Interpreting the Middle East for North Americans—
Interpreting North America for the Middle East

Aid To Israel and the Peace Process

7 The Case Against Unconditional US Loan Guarantees for Shamir's Israel

9 Israel's Cynical Use of Soviet Jews to Justify US Loan Guarantees

11 Buchanan Candidacy Dismays Pro-Israel Bush Bashers

18 Words to Remember: The December 1991 Bilateral Peace Talks

22 Vignettes from the Peace Talks: Corridor Diplomacy and Hotel Briefings

26 US Voters Select Israel as Biggest Peace Obstacle by 41 to 29 Percent

35 Two States, One Holy Land: A Framework for Peace

38 What They Said: Pat Buchanan on Allegations that He is "Anti-Semitic"

Israel and the Palestinians

8 US Joins in Security Council's "Strong Condemnations" of Israeli Deportations

13 Israeli Commentators Predict Talks' Failure Followed by Nuclear War

15 Can Israel's Labor Party Make Peace?

27 Breaking the Cycle of Abuse

33 Creating "Martyrs for Palestine" in the Nablus Casbah

71 Three Reasons Why the Vatican Can't Establish Diplomatic Ties with Israel

Special Reports

10 Assassination Threats: Peril in Being President

17 Syrians Record Almost 100 Percent Vote to Re-elect Hafez al-Assad

24 Lebanon's Ghassan Tueni: Philosopher at Large

36 For Some Zionists, Truth Depends on When and To Whom it is Spoken

39 With Peace, Lebanon's Individualists Unlearn Some Wartime Habits

41 Cold War's End Has Not Halted the Human Tragedy in Afghanistan

48 Algerian Election Results Put Democracy at Risk

US Congress

28 1992 Elections An Opportunity to Reassess US-Israeli Relations

30 It's Testing Time for the Israel Lobby's Clout with Congress

Departments

5 Letters to the Editor

31 In the Public Prints

32 United Nations Report

34 Canada Calling

37 Media Myopia

40 Middle East Marketplace

43 Issues in Islam

44 Words to Remember

45 Facts for Your Files

47 Maghreb Mirror

50 Issues in the News

52 Cartoons from the Arab Press

54 Other People's Mail

58 Other Voices

64 California Chronicle

65 Mideast Ecology Notes

65 Arab-American Activism

66 Jews and Israel

67 Human Rights

69 Religion

73 Book Reviews

75 AET Book Club Catalog

90 Bulletin Board

91 Publishers' Page

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