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Can Israel and her neighbors get off the treadmill of attack and counterattack? A leading Israeli, experienced in both war and diplomacy, argues that the end of the cold war [...]

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Washington last week with a carefully thought-out plan for peace and reform. In earlier telephone conversations with President Clinton he had made clear that [...]

One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate, by Tom Segev, translated by Haim Watzman (Henry Holt, 612 pp., $35) One Palestine, Complete is the latest contribution to [...]

IT TOOK ALMOST a month for the Western press, in the form of the New York Times, to catch up with the 'clarification' (i.e. retraction) by General Dmitri Volkogonov of [...]

Abu Nidal: A Gun for Hire, by Patrick Seale (Random House, 340 pp., $22) PATRICK SEALE is, let us say, highly informed about and closely connected to Syria and its [...]

The article questions if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu can negotiate for peace and reform. Netanyahu had made clear, in telephone conversations with U.S. President Bill Clinton, that the personal security of Israelis is his priority in negotiations with Palestine and Syria. He asked the Clinton administration to adapt itself to his style of negotiating. He plans to demand reciprocity, which will require concessions from Arabs in return for concessions from Israel. The negotiations will see Netanyahu enter into dialogue with Palestine leader Yasir Arafat and mark out a firm position on six issues such as that only Arafat is responsible for bringing an end to terrorism on the West Bank and in Gaza and that Jerusalem will never be an Arab capital and only Jordanians can have access to the Muslim holy places.

Focuses on the Arab-Israeli conflict in the Middle East. Plans for peace; Objections to comprehensive settlement; Absence of consensus among Arab powers toward solving the Palestinian problem; Effects of the United States-Soviet relations on the peace plan.