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  A Peace Plan for Disaster

  Yasser Arafat is the one who gains the most from the Geneva Understandings. The State of Israel is the prime loser. During the past months, and especially after the acceptance of President Bush’s “road map” to peace, Arafat was urged finally to take concrete and serious steps against terrorism. Has he done anything to fulfill…

  By Arthur Cohn

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• Letters

  November 7, 2003

  Students Making Grade On Israel Advocacy I am a student at Rutgers University, and I am unhappy with the grade given by opinion writer Natan Sharansky to me and my fellow activists in our efforts to support Israel on campus (“Tour of U.S. Schools Reveals Why Zionism Is Flunking on Campus,” October 24). Hillel at…

  Nov 7, 2003 | 5 min read
• Opinion

  Making Unemployment Work for the Jobless

  Since 2001, 2.7 million manufacturing jobs have been lost; the number for the last two decades is 5 million. Economists have offered a whole slew of explanations for the rapidly shrinking American workforce, from a slow economy to jobs moving overseas, rising health coverage costs and economically driven shifts away from labor-intensive production methods. The…

  By Robert Caplan Oct 31, 2003 | 4 min read

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• Jodi Rudoren This is my last column as editor of the Forward

  

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• Rob Eshman I have the answer to Jon Stewart’s toughest question about Israel

  

• Nora Berman ‘Eddington’ is full of conspiracy theories but it’s not about Jews. Or is it?

  

• Dan Perry Recognizing a Palestinian state is a great way to doom Palestinians

  

• Emily Tamkin Is starvation in Gaza really Israel’s fault? The facts are clear

  

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  The Iraq Syndrome

  On Sunday, the Baghdad hotel housing many of the top occupation officials was pummeled by rockets, and gunmen assassinated one of the capital’s three deputy mayors. The next day, suicide bombers attacked the Red Cross headquarters and four Baghdad police stations, killing at least 34 and wounding more than 200. The violence is designed to…

  By Ari Melber Oct 31, 2003 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  Geneva Agreement Repeats Oslo’s Mistakes

  The Geneva Understandings, the agreement reached recently among a group of dovish Israeli politicians and Palestinians, repeat the mistakes of the 1993 Oslo accord by requiring Israel to make dangerous concessions in exchange for unverifiable Palestinian promises. But the Geneva agreement is even worse than the previous peace initiative, because it comes after 10 years…

  By Morton Klein Oct 31, 2003 | 3 min read
• Letters

  October 31, 2003

  Mixed Marriage Advice I am normally a big fan of the Ask Wendy advice column, so I was very startled by her uncharacteristically stern response to an interfaith family in the October 17 issue (“Is It Time To Let (Bigoted) Bygones Be Bygones?”). I am the adult child of a Jewish-Christian intermarriage — Jewish Orthodox…

  Oct 31, 2003 | 5 min read
• Opinion

  Trivializing Mahathir’s Antisemitic Message

  At a time when even such publications as The New York Times and Financial Times clearly understand the significance of what took place in Kuala Lumpur, it is astonishing that the Forward chooses to trivialize it and to some extent rationalize what happened (“Mahathir’s Message,” October 24). Even many leaders who have failed to see…

  By Abraham Foxman Oct 31, 2003 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  The Third Way in Iraq

  The explosive wave of violence that tore through Iraq with such sudden fury this week has brought America, the Middle East and the democratic world to the edge of a dangerous precipice. The Bush administration policies that led to the current state of affairs were flawed from the outset, and continuing along the same path…

  Oct 31, 2003 | 3 min read
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  The Blame Game

  Any person of decency must be deeply alarmed by the dramatic resurgence of antisemitism — both verbal and violent — as a force on the world stage. After a half-century of decline, the last three years have seen a sudden turnaround. Synagogues firebombed in France and the Bronx. Prominent intellectuals casually tossing off theories of…

  Oct 31, 2003 | 2 min read
• Opinion

  Marrakech Expressions

  Yes, I know there are important things, perhaps even cataclysmic things, happening in the world. But here in Marrakech their urgency somehow recedes. A well-informed guide delights in a receptive client; ours is a fountain from which everything pours out: political history and art history, sociology and archeology, economics and agriculture, irrigation systems and theology….

  By Leonard Fein Oct 24, 2003 | 4 min read
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  Mahathir’s Message

  In a world that seems to be getting gloomier and more frightening by the day, the Malaysian prime minister’s keynote address to a world Islamic summit last week must stand as a milestone of sorts. The prime minister, Mahathir Mohamad, one of Asia’s longest ruling and most popular leaders, delivered on October 16 what sounded…

  Oct 24, 2003 | 4 min read