NATIV - Contents - March 2003

		Ariel Center for Policy Research
A JOURNAL OF POLITICS AND THE ARTS

NATIV ■ Volume Sixteen ■ Number 2 (91) ■ March 2003 ■ Adar II 5763 ■ Ariel Center for Policy Research

TABLE OF CONTENTS

The Editor and his Guests: David Bukay ■ Steven Plaut ■ Raya Epstein ■ Paul Eidelberg ■ Yohanan Ramati ■ Tom DeLay		Current Affairs Digest
Ariel Sharon – The Scapegoat of Jewish Self-Hatred: The Case of Gerald Kaufman (M.P.)		Editorial
Eliav Shochetman	Weighing the Risk to the IDF Soldiers in Their Efforts to Protect the Enemy’s Civilians	Articles
Rachel Ehrenfeld	The Palestinian Authority – A Study in Corruption: Where’s the Money?
Itzhak Bam	Euthanasia for the Demarcation of a Residence Zone
Menashe Har-El	The Shaping of Jerusalem’s Landscape – The Hills and the Desert – by the Israelites in Biblical Times
David Rokéah	Ancient Brigandage, Jewish-Pagan Relations, and the Contest over the Land of Israel
Yosef Oren	Amos Oz: A Story of Love and Darkness
Bush’s “Road Map” for the Middle East ■ Notes on the Document by Elyakim Ha’Etzni ■ Survey on the Issue of a Palestinian State by the Geocartography Knowledge Group		Documents
Research by Yona Hadari	THE ARIEL CENTER and THE ISRAELI LEFT Yechiam Weitz vs. the Editor	Debate
Steven Plaut	Scoop! Jesus Christ Arrested by Belgian Prosecutors!	"The Wise Men of Chelm"
Reuven Ben Yosef ■ Moshe Ganan ■ Miriam Godall ■ Stanley Mann ■ Paul Verlaine		Poetry
“The Integrated Jews” – Mira Jungman on Assimilation in Pride by Ofer Schiff ■ “The Formation of a Jewish Diaspora” – Yosef Govrin on The Jewish Nation of the Caribbean by Mordechai Arbell ■ “Permissiveness – The Raison D’être of the Liberal Outlook” – Ezra Sohar on The Struggle Against Childrens’ Violence by Chaim Omer		Book Reviews
Contents of the next issue Synopses in English		Nativ
Prof. Edward Alexander ■ Dr. Yoram Beck ■ Dr. Aharon Ben-Ami ■ Ephraim Ben-Haim ■ Prof. Yosef Ben-Shlomo ■ Prof. Louis René Beres ■ Prof. Yirmiyahu Branover ■ Dr. David Bukay ■ Dr. Netta Kohn Dor-Shav ■ Prof. Paul Eidelberg ■ Dr. Raya Epstein ■ Prof. Emil Fackenheim ■ Naomi Frenkl ■ Dr. Giora Goldberg ■ Prof. Raphael Israeli ■ Shmuel Katz ■ Dr. Mordechai Nisan ■ Aron Pappo ■ Prof. Shlomo Sharan ■ Dr. Martin Sherman ■ Prof. Eliav Shochetman ■ Prof. Ezra Sohar ■ Yoash Tsiddon-Chatto ■ Dr. Laurence Weinbaum ■ Prof. Hillel Weiss		Editorial Board
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