_{New Subscription Campaign!}

From Challenge # 80  July-August 2003

In This Issue 

 

IN MAKING a map, it's a good idea to include the terrain. The terrain of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict includes a chasm not yet measured, much less bridged – and not to be found in the latest Road Map. Euphoria fills the chasm like morning fog, briefly masking Reality. The stunt men prepare to go over the edge once more, Thelma and Louise sans love, sans kiss.

Re-enforcing the illusion, even Hamas signed into the cease-fire. We should not be deceived. Far from the real terrain, Hamas lives In its own Wonderland, between political expediency and apocalyptic fantasy.

In the fashionable shops and law offices of Nazareth, we discover the same Exploitation of the Arab female employees that we found earlier in textile factories. Here it is the avant-garde of modern Arab society, the retailers and professionals, who do the exploiting, backed by ancient patriarchal traditions. On the brighter side, a few members of the Workers Advice Center, gathering in a theatre group, have discovered The Power in Telling. They presented their own play, Who Are We? at WAC's May First celebration.

Local and Migrant Workers Make Common Cause: WAC and the Hotline for Migrant Workers have drafted a joint communiqué, calling on the government not to import more migrants, not to deport those already here and to open job opportunities for Arab unemployed.

In our Jaffa headquarters, Israeli Journalists gave their views on The Media and the War against Iraq.

The annual ODA seminar took as its topic, this year, "The Revolutionary Party and Parliament." From the list of lectures, we have chosen to publish Michal Schwartz's on Arab Voting Patterns in Israel: Between Participation and Boycott.

Artist Mike Alewitz, whose murals enliven cities and villages all over the world, is coming to the region. He will be WAC's guest August 3-9, painting a mural for working-class solidarity in Kufr Qara.

 

Thousands visit the Challenge website each month, and we are grateful, but a magazine lives not by web alone. We have begun, therefore, a new subscription campaign, with a special offer to both first-timers and veterans.

[Home | Archive| Subscribe]