Ariel Center for
Policy Research

A JOURNAL OF POLITICS AND THE ARTS

NATIV   ■   Volume Fourteen   ■   Number 2 (79)  ■  March 2001   ■  Ariel Center for Policy Research

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Sharon’s Main Objective: The Elimination of the PA’s Military Potential

Editorial

Aharon Levran

The Decline of Israeli Deterrence

Articles

Shmuel Katz

Textbook for the Ninth Grade: “The Twentieth Century” – A Substantial Contribution to the Distortion of History

David Pryce-Jones

Muslim Immigration and the West

Ezra Sohar

Bill Clinton: "Israel's Greatest Friend in the White House"

Aharon Dolev

Daniel Barenboim: The Failure of Sycophancy

Irving Kett

The US, Israel & Oil

Yehezkel Dror

Jewish Zionist Tasks Awaiting the Prime Minister

Eliav Shochetman

“He Who is Compassionate to the Cruel Will Ultimately Become Cruel to the Compassionate” – Contemporary Lessons from an Ancient Midrash

Sarit Yalov

Regards from the GSS, Platoon D (or: What If Yigal Amir Had a Girlfriend Like Tinkerbell?)

PART I

THE ARIEL CENTER and THE ISRAELI LEFT
Edited by Yona Hadari

Ideological Debate

Editorial

Foreword

A.

Yona Hadari

Comments

B.

Editoria

Peace Process or Strategic Abuse

C.

Yigal Elam

Their Sacrilegious Hearts

D.

Martin Sherman

His Sacrilegious Heart

E.

Yigal Elam

Response to Martin Sherman

F.

"Legality Without Realpolitik" - Yossi Barnea on Oslo: A Formulation for Peace from Negotiations to Implementation by Yair Hirschfeld ■ "A Manual for Our Times?" - Laurence Weinbaum on PHILO Atlas Handbuch fur Judische Auswanderung Preface by Susanne Urban-Fahr

Book Review

The Arts ■ Editor: Moshe Shamir

Yaffa Zins  ■ Elhanan Nir

Poetry

Haim Altholz - A Dog Named Bobek

Fiction

Avinadav Vitkon – A Non-National Poet ■ Yoseph Oren – Israel’s Army in the Eyes of Our Literature ■ Miriam Godal – On the Poetry of Esther Zilber-Vitkon

Essays and Reviews

A.D. Gordon - A Letter from Deganya to Berlin

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: Noah Eitan ■ Managing Editor: Itta Horol ■
Publishing Director: Leah Kochanowitz ■ Subscription Manager: Eli Maislish ■ Production: E. Oren, Ltd.

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