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From Challenge # 81  September - October 2003

In This Issue 

The euphoria described in our last editorial has undergone a Rude Awakening. Washington's vision for Iraq went hand in hand with its Road Map for the Occupied Territories. Both bubbles have burst, all too literally. In Iraq, the US is now recruiting Saddam's old spies to identify the resistance. In Israel and the Territories, events have returned to their bloody groove.

Israel used the hudna to build its Wall Against A People. The first phase, now finished, slices through Palestinian lives. This strange new plant will deepen the hatred it is rooted in.

There is a different sort of wall, however - an anti-wall wall. Hosted by WAC members of Kufr Qara, muralist Mike Alewitz has painted one, inscribing the message "No Walls Between Workers!" At a meeting with Israeli artists and leftists in Jaffa, he told them to Go Paint a Mural.

Joining this global perspective, Asma Agbarieh has returned from Naples with thoughts about The European Social Forum and the Palestinian Question.

Within the confines of home, Israel's economy continues to founder. The government has cut into welfare allotments. In response, Single Parents have risen in Protest, but their grass-roots movement is stuck in political limbo.

Three NGO's continue to alert the public to the distortions in Israel's Labor Market. The Hotline for Migrant Workers and the Adva Center joined WAC in a panel discussion on the topic at Jaffa's Baqa Center in Jaffa.

The Summer Camp of Baqa and WAC was favored this year with a visit from Sinbad. The sailor of the Arabian Nights took the children on a voyage from ancient Mesopotamia through the Golden Age of the Abbasid Caliphate. From this perspective, they looked at the recent events in Iraq. n

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