Middle East

Feature

Land battle: Settlements and Middle East peace

Attacks on Israelis inside or emanating from the West Bank are now almost nonexistent. Peace efforts are focused instead on settlements—because the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a conflict over land.

by Lara Friedman
News

Presbyterians find common ground on Mideast: Committee members displayed "mutual forbearance toward one another"

Books

Brokering Mideast peace

By Philip C. Wilcox Jr.
News

Carter says Gaza residents are treated like animals: Two-year-old blockade "an atrocity"

Books

Pens and Swords: How the American Mainstream Media Report the Israel-Palestinian Conflict

reviewed by Walter Rodgers
Impressions

The arms deal: More weapons for the Middle East

by James M. Wall
Books

Power, Faith, and Fantasy

reviewed by S. Mark Heim
Impressions

Bombing a peace plan: Sharon: man of war

by James M. Wall
Feature

Whose land is it? Apartheid in Israel/Palestine: Apartheid in Israel/Palestine

by Jonathan Frerichs
Impressions

TheBush-Sharon scheme: Calling for Arafat's ouster

by James M. Wall
From the Editors

Small carrot, no stick: A road map to nowhere

Feature

Palestinians push reform: Curbing corruption

by J. Martin Bailey
Cover Story

Salty solution: The fight over water in the Middle East

by James L. Hecht
Feature

Reckoning with Israel: Thorny issue for mainline churches

by Chris Herlinger
Impressions

Sharon’s plan: Like U.S. strategy against Native Americans

by James M. Wall
Cover Story

State of siege: Conflict at the Church of the Nativity

by Trudy Bush
Cover Story

After the assault: Report from the Jenin Camp

by Marthame and Elizabeth Sanders
Feature

Speaking up for Israel: Revisionists need revising

by Arnold Jacob Wolf
Impressions

Blind eye: The assault on Jenin

by James M. Wall
In the Lectionary

Thirst quencher: John 7:37-39; Acts 2:1-21; Psalm 104:24-34, 35b

In the original Christian Pentecost are seeds of a universalist impulse, a catholic principle.

by Maureen Dallison Kemeza