JPS Current Issue

Articles

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Popular Culture, Relational History, and the Question of Power in Palestine and Israel

Rebecca L. Stein and Ted Swedenburg

Perspectives

P. 21

Hamas after Shaykh Yasin and Rantisi

Khaled Hroub

P. 39

Elusive Ingredient: Hamas and the Peace Process

Beverley Milton-Edwards and Alastair Crooke

Letter from Damascus

P. 53

Syria under pressure

Anders Strindberg

Report

P. 70

Art under the Siege

Kamal Boullata

Special Documents

P. 85

The Sharon Unilateral Disengagement Plan

Institute for Palestine Studies

Recent Books

P. 108

Katz: Women and Gender in Early Jewish and Palestinian Nationalism

P. 109

Karmi: In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story

P. 110

Monk: An Aesthetic Occupation: The Immediacy of Architecture and the Palestine Conflict

P. 112

Ben-Yehuda and Sandler: The Arab-Israeli Conflict Transformed: Fifty Years of Interstate and Ethnic

Reviewed by Nur Masalha

P. 114

Bowker: Palestinian Refugees: Mythology, Identity, and the Search for Peace

P. 115

Pearlman: Occupied Voices: Stories of Everyday Life from the Second Intifada

P. 116

Amiry and Hadid: Earthquake in April

Reviewed by Dick Doughty

P. 118

Rubenberg: The Palestinians: In Search of a Just Peace

P. 119

Taha: The Palestinian Novel: A Communication Study

P. 121

Long: Imagining the Holy Land Maps, Models, and Fantasy Travels

P. 123

Queen Noor: Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life

Arab Views

P. 124

This section aims to give readers a glimpse of how the Arab world views current events.

Compiled by Editorial Staff

From the Hebrew Press

P. 126

This section includes articles by Israeli journalists and commentators.

Compiled by Editorial Staff

Photos from the Quarter

P. 134

This small sample of photos, selected from hundreds viewed by JPS, aims to convey a sense of the sit

Quarterly Update on Conflict and Diplomacy

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Quarterly Update on Conflict and Diplomacy 16 February - 15 May 2004

Compiled by Michele K. Esposito

Settlement Monitor

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Settlement Monitor 16 February - 15 May 2004

Edited by Geoffery Aronson

Documents and Source Material

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International A1. International Crisis Group, “Identity Crisis: Israel and Its Arab Citizens,” Amman

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A2.British Former Senior Diplomats, Open Letter to Prime Minister Tony Blair on British Policy on th

P. 175

A3. Amnesty International, Report on House Demolition and Destruction of Land and Property in Isra

P. 180

United States B1. Former U.S. Diplomats, Open Letter to President George W. Bush, 4 May 2004

P. 181

B2. Victor Gilinsky, “Israel’s Bomb,” Letter to the Editor (New York Review of Books) concerning Avn

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B3. President George W. Bush, Remarks to the Annual AIPAC Conference, Washington, D.C., 18 May 2004

Chronology

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Chronology 16 February-15 May 2004

Compiled by Michele K. Esposito

Bibliography of Periodical Literature

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Bibliography of Periodical Literature

Norbert Scholz

Letters to the Editor

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