November-December 1999
Challenge # 58
As final-status talks get underway, Ehud Barak is cracking The Whip
of Economic Separation .Our editorial shows how thi to be a bluff.
Just to make sure, Assaf Adiv follows the Israeli Milk Company,
Tnuva, as it Re-Conquers the Territories. These keep getting smaller:
Michal Schwartz, tracing recent land confiscations, sees Barak Carve
Out the Final Map.
Once upon a time, the employment bureau used to help people find jobs.
In the case of the Arabs, Israel's bureau has come up with a more efficient
method to improve its statistics and save government money. The Workers
Advice Center (WAC), which exposed the new technique, is helping
the Arab Jobless of Ein Mahel village Fight Apartheid. Wehbe
Badarneh of WAC describes the New Mood in Ein Mahel.
"Eureka!" After long and arduous study, Israel's High Court
has Discovered that Torture is Wrong. Yossi Wolfson explores the background
of this ethical and legal breakthrough. But Stephen Langfur, with the year
2000 in mind, regards the timing as unfortunate: the High Court decision
interferes with one of his Further Modest Proposals for solving the
potential problem of overcrowding at the tourist sites in Jerusalem.
Finally, in the last Challenge we published "Porcupine Tangos: The
PA and the NGOs". The piece brought a flood of reactions. In a Follow-up,
Roni Ben Efrat discusses the issues readers have raised.
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