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Reports that Jewish liberalism have recently resurfaced in the U.S. Establishment of the Jewish charity to extend assistance to the suffering victims of the Third World; Support provided by Jews to Palestinian nationalism and universal liberalization; Cognitive dissonance fostered in American Jews by the gap between their inherited political ideas and their situation; Re-establishment of Jews as sovereign people, by the creation of the State of Israel, sanctioned by the United Nations.

Discusses the threat posed by Rabbi Meir Kahane to the Israeli government. Influence of Kahane on the country's political culture; Views of Kahane on the equality of rights between Arabs and Jews; Achievement of the Jewish state with respect to the relationship of nationalism to democracy.

Focuses on the declaration of a new alliance in the Middle East. Fear of rising Arab nationalism; Information that the alliance unites Turkey, Iran, Ethiopia, and Israel; Stability of most alliances in the Middle East; Statement that alliance is based on peripheral doctrine; Impact of the peripheral doctrine on political decisions of various countries; History of military relations between Iran and Israel; Information on the Iranian revolution of 1979; Statement that the peripheral school in Israel's intelligence community and academia had long maintained that Persian nationalism; Intervention of the U.S. in the Arab-Israel peace process.

Focuses on the emergence of ethnic politics in Israel; Call for a strike by the Arabs on grounds of discriminatory treatment meted out to them in Israel; Views of an inherent problem which is deeper than discrimination and ethnic self assertion; Reference to Israeli-Palestinian relations on the West Bank; Refusal of the Arab states to accept Israeli statehood; Views that Israel must share cordial relations with the Palestinians; Israel has been liberal in its attitude towards Palestine; Resentment among the people of the West Bank on being ruled by Israel; Reference to obstacles to the Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank; Nationalism of the Jews and hostility of the surrounding Arab states.

Focuses on relations between Arabs and Jews in Israel. Effect of the killing of 13 Arab citizens by the police; Views of Arabs that the Jewish state considers them enemies rather than citizens; Views of Saleh Tarif, a member of the Druse minority, on the equality between the Druse and the Jews; Hope of Tarif that Arab Israelis will find their national identity by aligning with the Zionists.

Reflects on the speech given by Pope John Paul II in Jerusalem, where he envisioned a future in which there will be no more anti-Jewish feeling among Christians or anti-Christian feeling among Jews. Assessment of the public response to the speech, which was contrary to Israeli commentators' anticipation of dissent; Shift in the policy of Israeli press following the speech towards solidarity; Support for the reconciliation speech from Israel Prime Minister Ehud Barak; Resistance to the apology from orthodox Jewish nationalists.