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From Challenge # 82  November - December 2003

In This Issue 

Ten months ago Ariel Sharon sallied forth to crush the Palestinians with only George W. Bush at his side. Since then things have gotten out of hand. America's shock-awe victory in Iraq has left a void that is sucking it in. A few hundred miles to the west, another void has opened after the death of the cease-fire (hudna) and with it the Road Map. The Israeli arena bursts with discontent: Some pilots bomb, some refuse to bomb, some bomb and weep. Now into the vacuum jumps wizard Yossi Beilin, this time not from Oslo but Geneva. He introduces an Accord made with other Rip Van Winkles on the Palestinian side. It relates, our editorial holds, to a world Beyond Time and Space.

 

We are proud to present, as an alternative, a much more workable proposal from the Theodore M. Schmerzl Institute. It capitalizes on Washington's policy of opening The Golden Door of US citizenship to those who are willing to take their chances nowadays in an American uniform. The new proposal will solve not only the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (small potatoes for Schmerzlians), but the long-range problems facing the Bush Doctrine in Afghanistan, Iraq and throughout the globe. 

Outside the Golden Door, however, lower and middle-class Israelis face the threat of Unfettered Capitalism, as revealed by Finance Minister Netanyahu's Economic Plan.

And Illegal Palestinian Workers Sleep on Cardboard in the Parks of Ramat Gan.

Outside the Golden Door as well, Israel has amended its Citizenship Law, erecting A Wall through Arab families.

And Sharon has given the beleaguered Bush a hand, showing Syria that it is Next on the naughty-country list.

We notice too that amid the gloomy reality, some Progressives have become preoccupied with Conspiracy Theories concerning 9/11. We ask them to Think Twice! There are better fish to fry. n

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