The Shalom Center - What Now? 4th Rosh Hashanah as the Crisis Sharpens Still More

Move Yasser Arafat up -- not out

Mon, 10 Oct 2005 00:42:13 -0400

Herbert C. Kelman *, 9/22/2003

[This article appeared in the Boston Globe September 20, 2003. Kelman is Richard Clarke Cabot Research Professor of Social Ethics and co-chair of the Middle East Seminar at Harvard University. He is one of the giants of social psychology in the US, and for more than thirty years has been deeply involved in assisting Arab-Israeli negotiation processes looking toward peace settlements between Israel and the Arab states, and embodying a free and viable Palestine alongside a free and secure Israel. He and his family were refugees from Nazism in Austria, and he has walked an affirmatively and seriously Jewish path throughout his life. ]

Is the Two-State Solution Dead?

Sun, 31 Aug 2003 01:00:00 -0400

Haaretz Interviews: Meron Benvenisti & Haim Hanegbi, 8/31/2003

Dear Chevra,

I'm enclosing a powerful and upsetting (to me) article /interviews from Haaretz that raise some profound questions about the nature and future of Zionism. I would be glad t

A Failed Israeli Society Collapses While Its Leaders Remain Silent

Fri, 29 Aug 2003 01:00:00 -0400

Avraham Burg, former Speaker, Knesset *, 8/29/2003

The Zionist revolution has always rested on two pillars: a just path and an ethical leadership. Neither of these is operative any longer. The Israeli nation today rests on a scaffolding of corruptio

Should US Reduce/Suspend Aid to Israeli Settlements?

Sun, 09 Oct 2005 11:40:39 -0400

Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg Says Yes, 8/28/2003

Dear Friends,

In the August 27 New York Times, there was an extraordinary Op/Ed piece by Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg. He was one of the earliest and strongest American Zionists, an intellectual and political bulwark of the American Jewish community's support for the Jewish state.

Why the Cease-Fire Collapsed

Mon, 25 Aug 2003 01:00:00 -0400

Uri Avnery *, 8/25/2003

A Drug for the Addict
It was a putsch. Like any classic putsch, it was carried out by a

group of officers: Sharon, Mofaz, Ya'alon and the army top brass.

It is no secret that the military party (the only really functi