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From Challenge # 79 May-June 2003

In This Issue 

 

CHALLENGE attempts to grasp the post-war reality. Our editorial disputes the Great Expectations on Israel's Left, which trusts the makers of a new Occupation to bring about the end of an old. Both Occupiers offer Democracy on Bayonets, but only the bayonets are real.

 

Baghdad proved to be No Stalingrad. We examine the battle that never was and why it wasn't: the analysis applies beyond Iraq to the entire Arab world.

 

A few days after the Iraqi leadership evaporated, the Veto Theatre held an event at Tzavta in Tel Aviv. Thirty performers cast bunker-breaking barbs, from the Bible, classical Greece and contemporary drama, against America's theatre of lies.

 

The economic plight of Israel has grown so desperate that the new Finance Minister, Binyamin Thatcher (né Netanyahu), is attempting by legislative fiat to over-Turn labor agreements, transforming the country into a paradise of Social Darwinism.

 

If you want to examine whether a nation's courts operate on ethical principles or merely serve the regime, the best test is conscientious objection. What grade shall we give Israeli courts? From the case of Schein (1983) to Zonschein (2003), it is F for Flunky.

 

Turning to more principled matters, What's New at Sindyanna of Galilee? The fair-trade company has established new contacts and received new orders (and new ideas) for its olive oil products, thus helping the Palestinian economy in Israel and in the West Bank. (See also the Sindyanna website.)

 

We hope our readers had a happy, hopeful and resolute First of May. WAC's event took place just before we went to print. Please see the WAC website for pictures.

 

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