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One Year of Yasser Arafat’s Intifada: How It Started and How It Might End

October 1, 2001

The first anniversary of the current Palestinian Intifada was marked on September 28, 2001, throughout parts of the Arab world. The date was chosen to correspond to Ariel Sharon's visit to the Temple Mount one year ago, when he served as head of Israel's parliamentary opposition. Because of the alleged proximity of his visit to the Al-Aqsa Mosque (he actually did not get near the Muslim shrines), the Palestinians called their uprising: the Al-Aqsa Intifada. But clearly this name was chosen in order to mobilize Arab and Islamic public opinion for a more general struggle over Jerusalem rather than over the Palestinian cause alone.

Israel is Not the Issue: Militant Islam and America

October 1, 2001 | Amb. Dore Gold

After the September 11 terrorist assault on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, many American analysts have been seeking to understand the source of the intense hatred against the United States that could have motivated an act of violence on such an unprecedented scale.

Have the Palestinians Abandoned a Negotiated Settlement?

September 6, 2001

Tremendous intellectual energies have recently been expended in trying to ascertain why PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat refused President Clinton's proposals for Israeli concessions at Camp David and in subsequent negotiations.

Russian Policy Toward the Middle East Under Yeltsin and Putin

September 2, 2001 | Dr. Robert O. Freedman

Journalistic License: Professional Standards in the Print Media’s Coverage of Israel

August 15, 2001 | Jeffrey Helmreich

Why Israel Rejects “Observers”

August 1, 2001 | Saul Singer

Israel Looks Over the Horizon: Responding to the Threats of Weapons Proliferation

July 1, 2001 | Prof. Gerald M. Steinberg

“Aid for Peace” — An Exhausted Paradigm?

June 15, 2001 | Saul Singer

Untenable Linkages: Tying a Cessation of Palestinian Violence to an Israeli Settlement Freeze

May 15, 2001 | Amb. Dore Gold

Civilizational, Religious, and National Explanations for Ethnic Rebellion in the Post-Cold War Middle East

April 30, 2001

CIVILIZATIONAL, RELIGIOUS, AND NATIONAL EXPLANATIONS FOR ETHNIC REBELLION IN THE POST-COLD WAR MIDDLE EAST

April 11, 2001 | Jonathan Fox

Failure of Perception and Self-Deception: Israel’s Quest for Peace in the Context of Related Historical Cases

March 15, 2001 | Joel Fishman

Apocalyptic Fears Now; Unforseen Risks Tomorrow: Israel’s Poorly Predicted Future

March 1, 2001 | Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld

The Conflict Between Israel and the Palestinians: A Rational Analysis

February 15, 2001 | Professor Yakir Plessner

American Evenhandedness in the Mideast Peace Process: Lessons from Camp David II and the Al-Aqsa Intifada

December 15, 2000 | Saul Singer