March-April 1999 No.54

• On May 17, Israel will go to the polls to decide which of three parties will finalize the Oslo agreement. We predict that they’ll all wind up doing it together in a national unity government. Challenge devotes five articles to the elections: The Organization for Democratic Action (ODA)puts forth its Alternative.
• Abu Tayeb comes up with a different position, telling us what he learned at Abu Salem's over coffee: Why We Arabs Should Vote for Barak.
• Asma Agbarieh, an ODA candidate, talks about her work in Jaffa as a Community Leader.
• Sami Shalom Chetrit reflects on Yitzhak Mordechai's candidacy in Ethnic Identity and the Race for Prime Minister. Roni Ben Efrat takes issue with Chetrit in Ethnos or Class?
• Stepping out into our wider region, Yakov Ben Efrat places the Kurdish question in the context of the Israel-Turkey alliance, where The Enemy of My Enemy has proved a friend indeed.
• Khalid Amayreh brings us back to familiar ground: Turmoil has overtaken the PA's Public Sector; here Palestinian teachers, doctors, and other professionals Struggle for Livelihood.
• Yossi Wolfson leads us beneath this earthly realm to hell itself, the chambers of the Shin Beth, above which nine Judges dangle on a Hook.
• From Nazareth, Wehbe Badarneh of the Workers Advice Center writes how more and more jobless Arabs are finding the center Somewhere to Turn to, where they can learn to overcome the government's tricks.
• We have a very important update on the Sawaf case (Challenge # 53). The court has rejected the family's petition, but The Struggle for Housing Continues. Join us!

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