Edition #45/5-2004
May 17, 2004

Dear Friend,

Generally, editorials appear a day or two after major events, and the op-eds lag by a couple more days. The last major event was the Likud defeat of Sharon's plan, and the one before that was the Bush meeting with Sharon. Little has happened in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since then to arouse U.S. editorial writers (Iraq has taken top priority!), so this issue deals with the aftermath of those two events.

Sincerely,

Arthur S. Obermayer

Likud Rejection of Gaza Pullout

• Uri Avnery, "Sharon May Have Helped Create a Monster - Israel's Settler Movement", Los Angeles Times, May 5, 2004
• Thomas Friedman, "Tyranny of the Minorities", New York Times, May 16, 2004
• "Sharon's rejection / After Likud's vote, a need to patch up the road map", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, May 5, 2004
• "Sharon's Poor Judgment", Boston Globe, May 6, 2004
• Uri Dromi, "Why did Sharon set this Gaza trap for himself?", Miami Herald, May 7, 2004
• "Back to the Road Map", Boston Globe, May 3, 2004
• William Safire, "The Comeback Likudnik", New York Times, May 5, 2004

Bush-Sharon Meeting and Related Subjects

• Saeb Erekat, "Why Did Bush Take My Job?", Washington Post, April 25, 2004
• Stephen Zunes, "The Middle East at a Crossroads: Bush endorsement of Sharon proposal undermines peace", San Francisco Chronicle, April 26, 2004
• Martin Indyk, "The Day That Bush Took Gaza", Washington Post, April 25, 2004
• Walter Russell Mead, "Why They Hate Us, Really", New York Times, April 21, 2004
• H.D.S. Greenway, "Sharon's plan dooms Mideast to more conflict", Boston Globe, April 23, 2004
• Edward A. Gargan, "West Bank's great divide", Newsday, April 25, 2004