From Challenge # 66
March-April 2001
IN THIS ISSUE
The two main Israeli parties cling
to each other to keep from sinking in the Oslo quicksand. A new American
president unleashes the old "calling card", in the form of missiles that
mostly miss their Iraqi marks. All plans for a new Middle East have gone
"a-gley". It is time to write, as our editorial puts it, the Epilogue
to a Decade.
While leaders founder, the Arabs in Israel, says Samya Nasser,
have Discovered Their Electoral Clout.
In The Blank Ballot and the Boycott, Roni Ben Efrat compares
their effectiveness with the waffling of Israel's Jewish leftists in the
recent elections. The latter discovered their Zionist roots, writes Asma
Agbarieh, as soon as the question became one of Oslo versus the Right
of Return.
The Message of the US Air Strikes against Iraq was not primarily
for Iraq, holds Yacov Ben Efrat; it was rather aimed at the anti-Saddam
coalition, which is presently in Travails. If the US wants to
know how to carry out sanctions, it ought to talk to Israel. Or read the
story by Michal Schwartz, who documents the effect on Habla: A Border
Village Under Siege.
Having hitched its economy to America, starting fifteen years
ago, Israel is learning that when its patron Stumbles, she
Falls. But that, shows Yacov Ben Efrat, is The Price of Going
Global. A price is being paid right now by 400 textile workers from
Nazareth. Assaf Adiv explores how the Global Prosperity of a Textile
company can lead it to Shut its Local Industry Down.
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