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Volume 36 , Issue 5
December   2003
Rachel by Cindy Corrie

Rachel Corrie went to the Occupied Territories believing in (1) the right to freedom of the Palestinian people based on the relevant United Nations resolutions and international law; and (2) exclusive reliance on non-violent methods of resistance. On March 16, 2003, Rachel was crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer while trying to prevent the demolition of the home of a Palestinian pharmacist, his wife and three young children near the Egyptian border. She was 23 years old. Her mother wrote this issue of The Link.

Volume 36 , Issue 4
October -November  2003
Why Do They Hate Us? by John Zogby

Practically all polls show that Americans are less esteemed by the world community today than ever before. Why that is is the critical question. Is it because, as many U.S. commentators suggest, non-Americans envy our power, or our way of life, or our technology? Or perhaps they revile our culture as they see it filtered through our movies and television? John Zogby, president of the international polling firm of Zogby International, looks at all these possibilities and concludes that none of them is right.

So what is the answer? While Zogby's polling results may surprise many Americans, they will not come as a surprise to the rest of the world, and certainly not to the people of the Middle East.

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Volume 36 , Issue 3
July -August  2003
In the Beginning, There Was Terror by Ronald Bleier

“Blowing up a bus, a train, a ship, a café, or a hotel; assassinating a diplomat or a peace negotiator; killing hostages, sending letter bombs; massacring defenseless villagers — this is terrorism, as we know it. In the modern Middle East it began with the Zionists who founded the Jewish state. “ Author Ronald Bleier meticulous documentation includes Livia Rokach’s “Israel’s Sacred Terrorism,” which is based in large part on former Israeli Prime Minister Moshe Sharett’s diary.

Volume 36 , Issue 2
April -May  2003
Political Zionism by John F. Mahoney

This issue studies political Zionism from its origins under Theodor Herzl, traces its evolution from the early 1900s, describes its successful strategy of finding a world power patron, and documents its influence over U.S. foreign policy.

Volume 36 , Issue 1
January -March  2003
Veto by Phyllis Bennis

Security Council resolutions have condemned, deplored, demanded, denounced, and urged Israel to change, desist, withdraw, or comply in matters pertaining to military conquest, occupation, settlements, the status of Jerusalem, human rights, and assaults on civilian populations. Thirty-four times, the United States has used its veto to shield Israel, standing alone ten times as the only nation not voting “for.”

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