Q. What are the `big bang' and `little bang' scenarios in Israeli politics? Q. ...broad security/political ramifications for the Sinai-Gaza border arrangement?
Q. ...the strategic and tactical gains and losses of the settlers and the security forces? Q. ...future stages of disengagement on the West Bank?
Settlers Fail The Acid Test: There was a lot of hate up there on the roof. Hate for the soldiers, hate for the police, hate for those who don't agree with them. When they sang Hatikva, I stood below and was ashamed.
According to recent news reports, the Israeli government has approved construction of a new Jewish settlement in the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City. Is this true?
Heading into the actual removal of settlements from Gaza and the northern West Bank, the most recent Peace Index survey conducted by the Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research at Tel Aviv University found that 57% of Israeli Jews support disengagement
Q. How do the religious settlers look at their relative success or failure in stopping the disengagement? Q. Why are the French, the Russians, and the Spaniards proposing international conferences to discuss an Israeli-Palestinian peace process after disengagement?
Q. How do the religious settlers look at their relative success or failure in stopping the disengagement? Q. Why are the French, the Russians, and the Spaniards proposing international conferences to discuss an Israeli-Palestinian peace process after disengagement?
FOUR VIEWS OF SHFARAM: Leading Israeli analysts weighed in on last week's terrorist attack by a right-wing Israeli settler against Israeli Arabs in the town of Shfaram.
Q. ...intel failures re: recent killing of Palestinian Israelis by an IDF soldier? Q. How will Binyamin Netanyahu's resignation affect disengagement and its immediate aftermath?
Beginning in the 1970s with the birth and emboldening of the settlement movement, Israel has gradually created a new transportation grid in the West Bank.
I. New Bills and Resolutions II. House ForOps Disengagement Hearing
A Minyan For The Muslim Quarter: The Local Planning and Construction Committee in Jerusalem last week approved plans to build a new Jewish neighborhood inside the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City.
Q. How do you explain the Sharon-Chirac "honeymoon"? Q. What is the prognosis for disarming Hizballah, as France, the US (and UN) demand?
