Ariel Center for
Policy Research

A JOURNAL OF POLITICS AND THE ARTS

NATIV   ■   Volume Fourteen   ■   Number 3 (80)  ■  June 2001   ■  Ariel Center for Policy Research

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Aborting the Danger in its Incipient Stage

Editorial

Yitzhak Klein

Israel’s War with the Palestinians: Sources, Political Objectives and Operational Means

Articles

Charles Selengut

Religious Visions and Sacred Terror: The Case of Islam

Raphael Israeli

Peace, Peace and No Peace

Gerald M. Steinberg and Aharon Etengoff

Nuclear Programs of Arab and Islamic States: Capabilities, Strategies, and Implications

Joseph Farah

How Islam Plays the Press

David Bukay

The Politics of Oblivion and Brain Permeability: The Israeli Left

Robert Wistrich

In the Eye of the Storm: Israel, the Palestinians and Some Hard Truths

Raya Epstein

Judaism's Encounter with European Culture and Totalitarianism – (II)

PART II

THE ARIEL CENTER and THE ISRAELI LEFT
Edited by Yona Hadari

Ideological Debate

Zev Zahor

Ariel Center - The Radical Right Under the Guise of Pseudo-Research

A.

Shmuel Katz

Zev Zahor: No Guise and No Research

B.

Zev Zahor

A Hopeless Debate Between Mutes

C.

Yona Hadari

Comments on Zev Zahor's Reply

D.

Zionism versus Bolshevism: A Struggle for the Soul of the Jewish People - Winston Churchill on the Jews

Document

"A Jewish Democratic State?" - Will Morrisey on Jewish Statesmanship: Lest Israel Fall by Paul Eidelberg ■ "The Betrayal" - Ohad Kamin on The Black Book edited by Aharon Amir

Book Review

The Arts ■ Editor: Moshe Shamir

Shulamit Hava Halevy  ■ Yehuda Steinmentz  ■ Rammi Ditzany 

Poetry

Yehezkel Brown - Youth in a Village

Fiction

Oded Mizrahy - Ben Yoseph is Still Alive ■ Ida Zurit - Reality and Invention ■ Aharon Amir - The World of Rolan's Poetry

Essays and Reviews

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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