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  • Sharon's Herzliya speech , December 22, 2003 Edition 46
    • "Still no strategy for peace" - by Yossi Alpher
    • "A lot of chutzpah" - by Ghassan Khatib
    • "Sharon chose Bush" - by Yisrael Harel
    • "We will give you more of us" - an interview with Ali Jarbawi

  • The fence/wall revisited , December 15, 2003 Edition 45
    • "This wall is a land grab" - by Ghassan Khatib
    • "No suicide bombings = no fence" - by Yossi Alpher
    • "People power & resisting the wall" - by Islah Jad
    • "Complicated legal issues" - an interview with Ruth Lapidoth

  • The governments of Sharon and Qurei , December 8, 2003 Edition 44
    • "Unilateral redeployment, Likud style" - by Yossi Alpher
    • "A new opening" - by Ghassan Khatib
    • "A mild remedy for a severe illness" - by Aluf Benn
    • "The need for a mutual ceasefire" - by Daoud Kuttab

  • The conflict in a US election year , December 1, 2003 Edition 43
    • "Others must step to the plate" - by Ghassan Khatib
    • "How far will the US go?" - by Yossi Alpher
    • "Iraq is dominating the agenda" - interview with Leila Farsakh
    • "How will the 2004 elections influence the US role?" - by Eran Lerman

  • The information war , November 17, 2003 Edition 42
    • "The internal information war" - by Yossi Alpher
    • "Avoiding the spin" - by Ghassan Khatib
    • "It's the policy, stupid" - by Hirsh Goodman
    • "The fine line between public relations and propaganda" - by Nabil Khatib

  • Internal politics , November 10, 2003 Edition 41
    • "Autonomy forever?" - by Ghassan Khatib
    • "Strategy and local politics" - by Yossi Alpher
    • "Democracy and elections would revive this movement" - interview with Jamal Shobaki
    • "We are the moderates in this government" - interview with Avraham Poraz

  • Syria and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict , November 3, 2003 Edition 40
    • "Add him to the list" - by Yossi Alpher
    • "Phantom threats and ghost enemies" - by Ghassan Khatib
    • "The precarious triangle" - by Moshe Ma'oz
    • "Not interested in escalation" - interview with Ihsan Asalim

  • The Geneva Accord , October 27, 2003 Edition 39
    • "Actualizing peace" - by Ghassan Khatib
    • "Right idea, difficult premises" - by Yossi Alpher
    • "Achieving our fundamental aspirations" - interview with Yasser Abed Rabbo
    • "The eighth day of Taba" - by Yossi Beilin

  • Morality and the conflict , October 20, 2003 Edition 38
    • "Vital distinctions" - by Yossi Alpher
    • "Harvesting from this rocky soil" - by Ghassan Khatib
    • "The Israel Defense Forces' moral code of warfare" - by Shlomo Gazit
    • "The Palestinian resistance" - by Samah Jabr

  • Three years of intifada , September 29, 2003 Edition 37
    • "Where are we now?" - by Ghassan Khatib
    • "Eighteen more months at least" - by Yossi Alpher
    • "Ushering in year four: a reassessment" - by Hanna Amireh
    • "Time is working against everyone" - by Akiva Eldar

  • Removing Israeli settlements , September 22, 2003 Edition 36
    • "It will most likely happen unilaterally" - by Yossi Alpher
    • "Laying the cornerstone" - by Ghassan Khatib
    • "The practicalities of settlement removal" - by David Newman
    • "Towards settlement evacuation: some guidelines" - by Jad Isaac

  • In crisis , September 15, 2003 Edition 35
    • "Be careful what you wish for" - by Ghassan Khatib
    • "Sharon's perfect world" - by Yossi Alpher
    • "Out of abject despair" - by Ghazi Hamad
    • "An expected ending to a sad story" - by Shlomo Brom

  • Ten years after Oslo , September 8, 2003 Edition 34
    • "The solution is clearer, but not nearer" - by Yossi Alpher
    • "Look at who holds the power" - by Ghassan Khatib
    • "Peace is only a question of time" - by Yair Hirschfeld
    • "How to be good neighbors" - interview with Hasan Abu-Libdeh

  • The American role in the current crisis , September 1, 2003 Edition 33
    • "Three pieces of advice" - by Ghassan Khatib
    • "New American priorities" - by Yossi Alpher
    • "Meddling and mismanagement" - by Hisham Ahmed
    • "Not yet time to fold the roadmap" - by Zalman Shoval

  • The roadmap: a critical juncture , August 25, 2003 Edition 32
    • "What went wrong" - by Yossi Alpher
    • "The rise and fall of the roadmap" - by Ghassan Khatib
    • "We need a border for Israel" - interview with Dan Meridor
    • "More violent than before" - interview with Qais Abu Layla

  • Education and the conflict , August 18, 2003 Edition 31
    • "Education is the battleground for open minds" - by Ghassan Khatib
    • "Education, peace, or something else?" - by Yossi Alpher
    • "The occupation of memory" - interview with Ahmad Harb
    • "A matter of policy" - by Adina Shapiro

  • The fence/wall , August 11, 2003 Edition 30
    • "Chronicle of a good idea gone sour" - by Yossi Alpher
    • "Colonization laid bare" - by Ghassan Khatib
    • "Fence of paradoxes" - by Yisrael Harel
    • "Putting the final touches on the conflict" - interview with Jamal Juma'

  • Incitement , August 4, 2003 Edition 29
    • "How nations define themselves" - by Ghassan Khatib
    • "Beyond reducing incitement" - by Yossi Alpher
    • "Much work to be done" - interview with Nabil Amr
    • "It worked better when we met in private" - by Yaakov Erez

  • Three years after Camp David , July 28, 2003 Edition 28
    • "Things have changed" - by Yossi Alpher
    • "Set aside the myths, and what remains?" - by Ghassan Khatib
    • "Essential lessons from the Camp David summit" - by Gilead Sher
    • "One stage in a troubled process" - interview with Hanan Ashrawi

  • The ceasefire and the roadmap: a progress report , July 21, 2003 Edition 27
    • "The silent partners" - by Yossi Alpher
    • "Convince the public that Israel intends peace" - by Ghassan Khatib
    • "Too little, too late" - by Amos Harel
    • "We are watching the Israeli side" - interview with Mahmoud Zahhar

  • The role of intellectuals , July 7, 2003 Edition 26
    • "Very little give and take" - by Ghassan Khatib
    • "Independent, influential, or both?" - by Yossi Alpher
    • "It's wrong to squeeze the unsqueezable" - by Ali Jarbawi
    • "Critical and organic intellectuals: Israelis and Palestinians" - by Shlomo Avineri

  • The significance of and prospects for a ceasefire , June 30, 2003 Edition 25
    • "More questions than answers" - by Yossi Alpher
    • "Don't let Israel off the hook" - by Ghassan Khatib
    • "A peace of the exhausted" - by Lily Galili
    • "A positive way to solve our problems" - interview with Ahmad Ghneim

  • The Quartet, the United States and the peace process , June 23, 2003 Edition 24
    • "Without reciprocity, the whole world is blind" - by Ghassan Khatib
    • "What Bush can and should do" - by Yossi Alpher
    • "Only think of us as human" - by Sharif Omar
    • "The Quartet's swan song" - by Gerald M. Steinberg

  • When the two state solution is no longer viable , June 16, 2003 Edition 23
    • "The clock is ticking" - by Yossi Alpher
    • "Sue for peace or lose it all" - by Ghassan Khatib
    • "A civil war that both sides will lose" - interview with Yaron Ezrahi
    • "Tearing down the walls" - by Samah Jabr

  • The new phase in American involvement , June 9, 2003 Edition 22
    • "Never on time, never enough" - by Ghassan Khatib
    • "Bush's dedication to the cause" - by Yossi Alpher
    • "As if Palestinians are occupying Israeli land" - interview with Zakaria Al Agha
    • "The 2003 Gulf War: a turning point in American strategy?" - by Abraham Ben-Zvi

  • Israel's ratification of the roadmap , June 2, 2003 Edition 21
    • "What can we learn from this decision?" - by Yossi Alpher
    • "A brief but sunny window" - by Ghassan Khatib
    • "The tidal wave and the dinghy" - by Uri Elitzur
    • "A train on a circular track" - by Ghazi Hamad

  • Violence , May 26, 2003 Edition 20
    • "Laboring under illusions" - by Ghassan Khatib
    • "When we can't agree on the meaning of violence" - by Yossi Alpher
    • "Addressing the violence: my roadmap to peace" - by Eyad El Sarraj
    • "A strategy of self-destruction" - by Avraham Sela

  • Democracy , May 19, 2003 Edition 19
    • "Democracy begins at home" - by Yossi Alpher
    • "Measuring democracy's impact" - by Ghassan Khatib
    • "Democracy--not as a precondition" - by Yossi Beilin
    • "In the din of battle" - by Saleh Abdul Jawad

  • United States policy , May 12, 2003 Edition 18
    • "Israel's congressional seat" - by Ghassan Khatib
    • "Settlements or Florida?" - by Yossi Alpher
    • "Always getting less than we had before" - interview with Zahira Kamal
    • "Safe side engagement" - by Aluf Benn

  • The new Palestinian government and the roadmap , May 5, 2003 Edition 17
    • "Slippery slopes and uphill battles" - by Yossi Alpher
    • "High expectations mean a harder fall" - by Ghassan Khatib
    • "Conceivably I won't be able to support the process" - interview with Tzipi Livni
    • "A Palestinian demand" - interview with Intisar al Wazir

  • Ras al-Amud and the Jerusalem issue , April 28, 2003 - Edition 16
    • "No realistic strategy" - by Yossi Alpher
    • "The problem, in a nutshell" - by Ghassan Khatib
    • "The Ras al-Amud neighborhood guards the Temple Mount" - interview with Uri Ariel
    • "Wiping the landscape clean" - by Issam Nassar

  • The war and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: an interim assessment , April 14, 2003 - Edition 15
    • "A sign of the times" - by Ghassan Khatib
    • "Linkages, good and bad" - by Yossi Alpher
    • "A 'testing time'" - interview with Mudar Kassis
    • "A time for congratulations - and hope" - by Shlomo Gazit

  • International forces, April 7, 2003 - Edition 14
    • "A few rules of thumb" - by Yossi Alpher
    • "Out of Israel's iron grip" - by Ghassan Khatib
    • "No progress without intervention" - an interview with Yossi Sarid
    • "Breaking the cycle of failure" - by Yaser Dajani

  • Settlements revisited, March 31, 2003 - Edition 13
    • "Settlements plus" - by Ghassan Khatib
    • "What threatens Israel's security: Saddam or settlements?" - by Yossi Alpher
    • "Like a mosaic" - interview with Khalil Tufakji
    • "The precedent of hill 26" - by Yisrael Harel

  • War in Iraq, the international crisis, and the conflict, March 24, 2003 - Edition 12
    • "A weaker international community" - by Yossi Alpher
    • "The problem with 'after the war'" - by Ghassan Khatib
    • "Damaged goods" - by David Kimche
    • "Don't celebrate too soon" - by Mouin Rabbani

  • The new Palestinian prime minister and the conflict, March 17, 2003 - Edition 11
    • "It's not just about Arafat" - by Ghassan Khatib
    • "When AM becomes PM" - by Yossi Alpher
    • "We need democracy" - an interview with Hatem Abdel Qader
    • "Walking a thin line" - by Smadar Perry

  • The new Israeli government and the conflict, March 10, 2003 - Edition 10
    • "Between the guidelines and the Herzliya speech" - by Yossi Alpher
    • "Not news to us" - by Ghassan Khatib
    • "There can be no long term strategy" - interview with Moshe Arens
    • "What is the logic in returning to square one?" - by Muhsin Yusuf

  • A personal roadmap: the vision and how to get there, March 3, 2003 - Edition 9
    • "Parity and compromise" - by Ghassan Khatib
    • "Start with two separate roadmaps" - by Yossi Alpher
    • "The way out of the impasse" - by Qadura Fares
    • "A compass for the roadmap" - by Efraim Inbar

  • The green line, February 24, 2003 - Edition 8
    • "Geography or demography?" - by Yossi Alpher
    • "A matter of principle" - by Ghassan Khatib
    • "The green line as past and future boundary" - by David Newman
    • "The ghostly green line" - by Ihab Abu Ghosh

  • The Palestinian-Israeli dimension to war in Iraq, February 17, 2003 - Edition 7
    • "Steeling ourselves - but not for war" - by Ghassan Khatib
    • "Removing Saddam is good enough" - by Yossi Alpher
    • "No one will stand in their way" - by Manuel Hassassian
    • "Infectious regime change: from Baghdad to Ramallah" - by Gerald M. Steinberg

  • Palestinian and Israeli unilateral initiatives , February 10, 2003 - Edition 6
    • "Unilateral redeployment did not lose in these elections" - by Yossi Alpher
    • "Without mutuality, one misses the mark" - by Ghassan Khatib
    • "The Egyptian initiative for a unilateral ceasefire" - by Oded Granot
    • "Transforming the intifada" - interview with Bassam Al-Salhi

  • Israel's elections and the conflict , February 3, 2003 - Edition 5
    • "A future we have seen before" - by Ghassan Khatib
    • "Security, not negotiations" - by Yossi Alpher
    • "The rise of "Sharonism" through the Aqsa Intifada" - by Hisham Ahmed
    • "Sharon and the Palestinians: a second chance" - by Amnon Abramovitz

  • Socioeconomic consequences of the conflict , January 27, 2003 - Edition 4
    • "We need a sense of security" - by Yossi Alpher
    • "The balance is shifting" - by Ghassan Khatib
    • "A society in the dark" - by Lily Galili
    • "Israel's starvation war" - by Jamil Hilal

  • Palestinian citizens of Israel and the elections , January 20, 2003 - Edition 3
    • "Equal rights and the Jewish state" - by Ghassan Khatib
    • "A probable setback to Jewish-Arab relations" - by Yossi Alpher
    • "A state of all its citizens?" - by Azem Bishara
    • "Participation or abstention in the elections" - by As'ad Ghanem

  • Economic integration or separation , January 13, 2003 - Edition 2
    • "Economic separation--for political reasons" - by Yossi Alpher
    • "An economic bondage" - by Ghassan Khatib
    • "The dangers of economic separation" - by Ephraim Kleiman
    • "Many things have changed" - interview with Hisham Awartani

  • The latest draft of the road map , January 6, 2003 - Edition 1
    • "An interminable distance" - by Ghassan Khatib
    • "This is not the way" - by Yossi Alpher
    • "A despondent situation" - interview with Haidar Abdul Shafi
    • "The elections and the campaign in Iraq are more important" - interview with Zalman Shoval




 

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