Ariel Center for
Policy Research

A JOURNAL OF POLITICS AND THE ARTS

NATIV   ■   Volume Eleven   ■   Number 4-5 (63-64) ■  September 1998   ■  Ariel Center for Policy Research

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Israel: Five Years to Oslo: Notes on Demoralization

Current Affairs Digest

Arnon Soffer

Population Dispersal – The Next Zionist Challenge

Articles

Raphael Israeli

The Israel-Jordan Agreement – A Missed Opportunity

Alexander Bligh

Jordanian-Israeli Strategic Partnership in Historical Perspective

Angelo M. Codevilla

Missiles, Defense and Israel

Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.

The AEGIS Option: How to Provide Near-Term, Cost-Effective Missile Defense to Both Israel and America

Moshe Yegar

The Bible in the Arts Festival in Prague 1995

Eliav Shochetman

Who is Really Responsible for Not Preventing the Murder of the Prime Minister?

Moshe Gilboa

The African Giant: From Military Rule to National Reconciliation

Fit for Every Soldier's Kitbag – Eviatar Ben Zedeff on Science, Technology and Battlefield by Azriel Lorber ■ Judea and Samaria New Research – Ehud Netzer on Judea and Samaria Research Studies Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Meeting 1997 by Yaakov Eshel

Reviews

The Arts ■ Editor: Moshe Shamir

Aharon Amir ■ Ruth Netzer ■ Orzion Bar-Tanna ■ Raphael Israeli ■ Moshe Shafrir

Poetry

Hillel Weiss – Ram Caught in a Thicket ■ Benyamin Gallay – Kaddish ■ Reuven Ben-Yoseph – On the Poetry of Rammi Ditzany ■ Esther Silber-Vitkon – The Poetry of Miriam Godal

Essays and Reviews

Yaakov Orland – The Land of Israel ■ Yitzhak Lamdan – Letters

Document

Prof. Edward Alexander, Dr. Yoram Beck, Dr. Aharon Ben-Ami, Ephraim Ben-Haim, Prof. Yosef Ben-Shlomo, Prof. Yirmiyahu Branover, Prof. Louis René Beres, Dr. Netta Kohn Dor-Shav, Prof. Paul Eidelberg, Prof. Emil Fackenheim, Prof. Harold Fisch, Naomi Frenkl, Dr. Giora Goldberg, Prof. Raphael Israeli, Shmuel Katz, Aron Pappo, Prof. Eliav Shochetman, Prof. Shlomo Sharan, Dr. Martin Sherman, Prof. Ezra Sohar, Yoash Tsiddon-Chatto, Dr. Laurence Weinbaum, Prof. Hillel Weis, Gen. (res.) Rechavam Zeevi

Editorial Board

Editor: Arieh Stav ■ Associate Editor: Baruch Koroth ■ Copy Editor: Esther Keren ■ Managing Editor: Itta Horol ■
Publishing Director: Leah Kochanowitz ■ Subscription Manager: Eli Maislish ■ Production: E. Oren, Ltd.

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