From Challenge # 78

March-April 2003

In This Issue 

As Challenge goes to print, the US seems about to pounce on Iraq. Yacov Ben Efrat warns that we stand before A New and Dangerous Era. The road, he says, won't stop at Baghdad. America may be likened to the Titanic, which many mistook for unsinkable, and Israel is Bound to it – firmly, in fact, to the right of George W. Bush.  Nonetheless, a small counter-current exists: the ODA has erected in Jaffa an Ongoing Platform Against the War, involving artists, activists and youth. Among those using the platform to voice their protests were women on International Women's Day.

Elections have taken place, moving us to study How Israel's Left Defeated Itself. We review a decade of double-standard politics. The Organization for Democratic Action, a different kind of leftist party, used the elections to Build Its Electoral Base.

Israel's army, meanwhile, fights on two fronts. Its major mission is to stifle Palestinian resistance. On the home front, the IDF Attempts to Crush the Refusal Movement.

Video '48 has made a second documentary, A Job to Win. Its first, Not in My Garden, has won praise from Israel's press and a futile attempt at censorship by the Ministry of Communication.

Our office has moved to bigger quarters in Jaffa. Our telephone number, POB address, and E-mail remain the same. Our new visiting address is on Street # 3048.

Subscribers, please note: For reasons beyond our control, the hard-cover copy of Challenge # 78 has been delayed. It will be sent by March 17. Please accept our apologies.

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