Summer 2008

editor — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:57:00 +0000

Column Left
Left Turn at 'J Street'
Ralph Seliger

'An Agreement within a Year' - Assessing the US Role
Michal Radoshitzky

Negotiating a Principled Pease Based on Historic Compromise
Dr. Herbert C. Kelman

Six Degrees of Separation: 'Pro-Israel Realists' Versus 'Worried Jews'
Aaron Ahuvia, Ph.D.

Bedouin Interests Are Israel's Interests
Rebecca Manski

Book Review
Advising the Next President on Mideast Diplomacy by Thomas Mitchell, Ph.D.
The Much Too Promised Land by Aaron D. Miller, Bantam, New York, 2008, 385 pp. $26.00 Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace: American Leadership in the Middle East edited by Daniel C. Kurtzer and Scott B. Lasensky; published by the U.S. Institute of Peace, 2008, 190 pp., $16.

Other Voices
Q&A on 1948
Uri Avnery

Director's Column
Israel at 120
Ron Skolnik

Meretz Matters
Profile of Haim Oron
JANIP Conference
Vilan's 'Scenarios'
Changes on Kibbutz
And more...

Spring 2008

editor — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:40:09 +0000

In this Issue:

COLUMN LEFT: On the ‘Jewish State’
By Ralph Seliger
Teen Voices from the Holy Land
From the book of the same name by Mahmoud Watad and Leonard Grob
Eco-Chalutzim and Eco-Tourists
by Noam Dolgin
OTHER VOICES: One-State Solution Means No Solution
By Dr. Philip Mendes
OTHER VOICES: Reclaiming Zionism
By Ami Isseroff
REMINISCENCES: Mordechai Oren: Radical Socialist Betrayed by Stalinism
By Moshe Kagan
‘Peoplehood’ As Jewish Organizing Principle
By Charney V. Bromberg: Beginning a discussion
DIRECTOR'S COLUMN: American Jews and Israel: Friendship, Not Worship
By Ron Skolnik
EDITOR'S ODDS & END
MERETZ Matters

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Winter 2008

editor — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:30:46 +0000

In this Issue:

Column Left: Remembering Rabin, With and Against Peres; Ralph Seliger on Israeli documentary, "Rabin-Peres..."
‘Unrecognized': Bedouin in the Negev by photo-activist Tal Adler
Israeli ‘Blackboard Jungle' by Ari Heistein; problems of 'ghetto' school in Bat-Yam
Standing for Peace at Annapolis; reflections by Lilly Rivlin and Charney V. Bromberg from on the scene
Book Review: Psychological Factors in Peacemaking by Dr. Eli Leiter on Planting Hatred, Sowing Pain: The Psychology of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict by Moises F. Salinas; published by Praeger
Book Review: Poems at Once Personal and Political by Joan Seliger Sidney, Ph.D. on BEGGARS at the WALL by Rochelle Ratner; published by Ikon
EDITOR'S ODDS & ENDS: Left-Zionist Views of ‘The Israel Lobby' by Dan Fleshler, Daniel Levy and Leonard Fein
REMINISCENCES: The Hashomer Hatzair Library
MERETZ Matters

Autumn 2007

editor — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:52:38 +0000

In this issue:

Column Left: Ralph Seliger discusses "Barak's Second Coming"
Dan Fleshler addresses the Zionist Left in "How to Talk Candidly About Israel"
Amy K. writes about her "Journeys into Progressive Israel"
Reminiscences: Moshe Kagan discusses "The Shtetl: Reality vs. Myth"
Other Voices
- "The Bed of Sodom: Radical Activist argues for two-state solution" by Uri Avnery
- "Desperately Seeking Security: Women's peace movement reframes concept of security" by Gila Svirksy
Book Review: Nusseibeh: Israel's "nightmare" or dream? by Stephen Scheinberg, Ph.D
"To Hebron and Back - To Israel "by Michael Green
Meretz Matters
- Letter from Yossi Beilin
- Visits by MK Vilan
- Meretz USA Statements
- Book Talk
- Film Series and more ...

Summer 2007

editor — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 19:00:06 +0000

In this issue:

Column Left: Ralph Seliger discusses "What Was and What Might Have Been"
"While Gaza Burn, Israelis and Palestinians Talk" by Hillel Shenker
"Deja vu: Living As an American Again, in Israel" by Joanne Yaron
"From One Peace Process to the Next" by Thomas Mitchell, Ph.D
Interview of Charney Bromberg: "1967 - An Ambivalent Anniversary" by Michael Green
"A History of Failure" by Bennet Muraskin
"What Makes Shimon Run?" by Stephen Scheinberg, Ph.D
Editor's Odds & Ends
"Yaakov Amit (1963-1985) Pioneering Political Journalist" by Moshe Kagan
Meretz Matters:
- Our Israeli Lobby
- Meretz USA statement against British academic boycott of Israel
- Meretz USA statement against Israel’s mistreatment of Bedouin
- Declaration of Meretz MK’s Against Homophobia

Spring 2007

editor — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:52:41 +0000

In this issue:

Column Left: Ralph Seliger discusses "Academia's Anti-Israel Imperative"
Update on the Geneva Initiative by Michal Radoshitzsky
The Flawed Strategy of 'Don't Hate, Celebrate' by Tamara Shapiro
Book Review: Building a Future By Remembering the Past by Ron Skolnik
Book Review: Conversations Through Barbed Wire by Phyllis Miriam
Other Voices: 'Internationalists' Stumble Re: Israel and Palestine by Bennett Muraskin
Other Voices: Thinking about a Left-Zionist Think Tank by Alex Stein
Reminiscences: Avraham Shlonsky (1900-1973) by Moshe Kagan
Editor's Odds & Ends: Is Jewish Dissent Being Squelched?
Meretz Matters: Responding to Carter, Mearsheimer-Walt, and Judt and more...

Winter 2007

editor — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:49:42 +0000

In this issue:

Column Left: How Yossi Klein Halevi Disappoints by Ralph Seliger
Iraq War: A Pro-Israel Conspiracy? by Dan Fleshler
Making Martyrs: An Examination of Palestinian Suicide Terrorism by Amy Kapit
Carter's 'Palestine': Badly Flawed with a Large Kernel of Truth by Gidon D. Remba
OTHER VOICES: Just Another Day in the West Bank by Dorothy Naor
Should Israel Negotiate With Syria? by Robert O. Freedman
Book Review: Meeting The Enemy by Eli Leiter
Reminiscences: Richard Yaffe: IH Founding Editor by Moshe Kagan
Meretz Matters: Israel Symposium 2006; What if Women Ruled?; Beilin on Negotiations, Lieberman...

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Fall 2006

editor — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:46:47 +0000

In this issue:

Column Left: Ralph Seliger asks "Israel: Superpower or small country?"
Photo Essay: "Profiles of Poverty: Victims of Israel's 'Wisconsin Plan'"
Lebanon War Divides Left
A Light Unto the Nations: Speech by Theo Bikel at the 35th World Zionist Congress
Who We Are: Doug Chandler on "Moshe Kagan: Eldar Statesman's Two Lives - Both Remarkable"
Dorothy Naor on "Reflections at a Checkpoint and at a Wedding"
Paul Scham asks "Israeli Fear of Weakness: Neurosis or Policy?"
And More!

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Summer 2006

editor — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:45:37 +0000

In this issue:

Column Left: Ralph Seliger on "Scholars Blame 'Israel Lobby'"
Hillel Schenker on "No to Occupation, No to Boycott!"
Moshe Kagan on "Yosef Trumpeldor"
Review: I.M.A. Lederer on "The Death of Feminism " by Phyllis Chesler
Review: Ken Brociner on "The Path to Geneva" by Yossi Beilin
Review: Bennett Muraskin on "The Other Side of Israel" by Susan Nathan, Nan A. Talese
And Much, Much More!

Spring 2006

editor — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:32:40 +0000

In this issue:

Miriam Felton-Dansky asks: Mission Accomplished? Questioning the JNF
Dorothy Naor on Lina: A sick West Bank child triumphs over occupation
Benjamin Pogrund asks: An Apartheid State? Israel is a democracy in which Arabs vote
Leonard Grob on 'Forgetting' the Holocaust: Ethical dimentions of Israeli-Palestinian conflict

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