MER Article Sharon and Eitan After Sabra and Shatila Ariel Sharon: “These Years Have Been Exciting” What is your assessment of the week? Victory, defeats, the end of a career, of an ambition? You can make the assessment yourself; there is no doubt that it was tough, but the fact is that I am still a government member. Is that so important? Very im (Author not identified) • 3 min read
MER Article The Kahan Report: Mossad and the Massacres The final report of the Kahan Commission shows the extent to which the Lebanese Phalangists and Major Sa’ad Haddad’s “Free Lebanon” forces are little more than hired hands in the eyes of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and the intelligence agency, Mossad. The Israeli government decides and the Phal Konrad Ege • 4 min read
MER Article The Kahan Report: The Commission and the Evidence I will begin at the end; I am not satisfied by the report of the commission of inquiry.... I have great respect for the three members of the commission. They did an excellent job. The conclusions were reached according to their conscience and understanding. They added honor to Israeli democracy and Uri Avnery • 16 min read
MER Article The Kahan Report: Banishing the Palestinian Ordeal If politics is the art of the possible, then the impact of the Kahan Commission Report has to be understood as “beyond politics,” Israel’s final victory in the Lebanon war is not the expulsion of the PLO or even the extension of its sovereign reach to challenge Lebanese territorial and political ind Richard Falk • 14 min read
MER Article Jansen, The Battle of Beirut Michael Jansen, The Battle of Beirut: Why Israel Invaded Lebanon (London: Zed Books, 1982). Ibrahim Abu-Lughod • 2 min read
MER Article Zionism Good and Bad Jacobo Timerman, The Longest War (London: Chatto & Windus, 1982). Zachary Lockman • 27 min read
MER Article New Data on Palestinian Workers in Israel A survey covering the inhabitants of the territories who work inside Israel, conducted by the manpower planning section of the Department of Employment, reveals that in 1981 some 76,000 of them were working in Israel. In 1971, the equivalent figure had been 21,000 and in 1975 it had been 66,000. Acc (Author not identified) • 1 min read
MER Article The Peace Now Demonstration of February 10, 1983 This account by Shulamit Har-Even appeared in Yediot Aharanot on February 14, 1983. It was translated from Hebrew by Israel Shahak. According to Shahak, who was present at the demonstration himself, the pro-Sharon crowd was made up of West Bank settlers (“Gush Emunim types”) and young yeshiva studen (Author not identified) • 8 min read
MER Article Divisions in the Kibbutz Israel’s kibbutzim, each a block of neat cottages built round a communal dining room, have always concerned themselves with more than the shared tilling of soil pioneered by Jewish settlers in 1911. Since the prospect of a spring election appeared in the autumn of 1982, kibbutz members have been pre Elfi Pallis • 5 min read
MER Article Israeli Economy Struggles for Appearance of Solvency In a year when much of the world endured a protracted economic crisis, and Israel itself was politically torn by the invasion of Lebanon, that country&rsquos economy appeared deceptively unruffled. True, inflation rebounded to a near-record level of 131.5 percent, [1] but most of the country’s citiz Joe Stork • 7 min read
MER Article "There Is a Basis for an Israeli-Palestinian Strategy of Joint Struggle" Daniel Amit is a physicist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is a founding member of the Committee Against the War in Lebanon and its predecessors, the Committee in Solidarity with Birzeit University and the Committee Against Settlement in Hebron. During the 1982-1983 academic year, he is Ei The Editors • 20 min read
MER Article Iron and a King There is a new wisdom, already becoming conventional, which explains Israel’s invasion of Lebanon and the attendant massacres of Palestinians and Lebanese by reference to two crucially interconnected developments in Israel: the “orientalization” of Israeli society and the rise to power of the Likud Kenneth Brown • 29 min read
