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Core Issues of
the Conflict
The Road
Map: International All, Nothing or Something?
by Gila Ansell-Brauner
The process behind the Middle East Road Map and its
content come together in the context of Allied victory
over Saddam Hussein. Explore the motives, the mechanisms
and the content together in this series, with perspectives
from reputable sources; analyze and reflect on the
main issues in our Forum.
UK tightening embargo on
Israel -
By Amnon Barzilai
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=200151
Export licences refused to Martin Baker company making
pilot ejector seats, essential to IAF fighter planes.
British Foreign Office says IDF broke pledge not to
use British equipment in PA
The Root of All Conflict:
Water
http://jewishinternetassociation.org/archive_memos/memo_20020916.php
A review of the water situation in Israel and the potential
for conflict over water diversion by Lebanon at the
present time, plus links to geographical analysis,
current reporting.
For a Jewish border
By A.B.YEHOSHUA
Jerusalem Post Internet Edition, July 22nd 2002
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1025787840261
A lengthy expose of analysis and understanding of Jewish
existence is applied to the current reality by this
writer, whose word power is immense. The digression
into history is important, and so is the discussion
with contemporary Israeli poet Haim Gouri, but even
if you skim this, to focus on the end of the article
it remains cohesive and coherent in argument. AB Yehoshua's
political views are well known, but his appeal for
self-understanding and understanding of both political
and human realities are pragmatic, as well as dramatic.
What the Qur'an really says
by Shaykh Prof. Abdul Hadi Palazzi
Root & Branch Association, Islam-Israel Fellowship
(April 5, 1999)
http://www.rb.org.il/Islam-Israel/commentary/islamcom1.htm
Qoran exegesis and Professor Palazzi's explanations
on the giving of the Land of Israel, the Jewish State,
Muslim states' relationship with Israel, Jewish sovereignty
over Jerusalem, Muslim Holy Places. Although very
detailed, this is a good introduction to points of
principle and Quoranic text relating to these issues.
Other articles in this index address political and
fundamentalist Islamic tendencies and argue different
positions with additional textual sources. http://www.rb.org.il/Islam-Israel/commentary/index.htm
Demography is destiny - Parents
of Arabia
(Israel needn't worry about a population implosion.)
By Ben J. Wattenberg
Opinion JOurnal, Saturday, May 18, 2002
http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110001727
Debunks the Muslim population explosion thesis for
Arab countries and even a potential Palestinian state,
whereby Israel will feel threatened by rapid external
demographic expansion : assessment of demographic
data for various countries - birth rate, population
growth - shows that they are not expected to swamp
Israel by 2025.
History Isn't on the Palestinians'
Side
Victor Davis Hanson
The Wall Street Journal Tuesday, April 2, 2002
Archived at: http://www.frontpagemag.com/mideastwar.htm
Presents the brutal reality of historical truth - various
precedents on resolution of lands issues; lack of
rights of Palestinians in ME states. Terror bombing
wins no support; but the US knows the history and
won't submit to threats from anti-democratic sympathizers
of Bin Laden. US patience is running out.
Expulsion or Flight?
Benny Morris
The Guardian Tuesday, January 16, 2001
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,422885,00.html
Israel's liberalization enables figures to address
flight and certain expulsions of Arabs in 1948. The
PA's rejection of a compromise solution was counter-productive
(2000); however, refugee repatriation 'would spell
the destruction of the Jewish state.'
Palestinians: Israel Simply
is Not Yours
Neil Steinberg
Chicago Sun-Times September 9, 2001
Archived at http://www.netanyahu.org/palissimisno.html
Parallels Palestinian refugee resolution proposals
with US immigration policy on Mexico; brings historical
dominion as the precedent. The real reason behind
the non- resolution of the conflict is Palestinian
hatred of Jews.
Myths of the Middle East
Joseph Farrah
World Net Daily (Editor's archive)
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=15066
Historical and thematic review of major issues, with
refutation. Author is a Lebanese Christian. Lengthy.
Jerusalem and the Jews
Joseph Farrah
World Net Daily Friday January 5 2001
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=21221
Highlights the Palestinian denial of historical facts
about Jerusalem with an overview of Jewish historical
and religious importance in a comparative framework,
The Muslim Claim to Jerusalem
Daniel Pipes
The Middle East Quarterly Fall 2001
http://www.mequarterly.org/0104jer.shtml
Thorough presentation of Jewish claims to Jerusalem,
with extensive treatment of Muslim theological and
historical claims, set against Quranic, political
references and bibliography.
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