Edition #55-3/2005
April 20, 2005

Dear Friend,

Editorials during the past few weeks have dealt primarily with the Gaza pullout, Sharon's plans for 3,500 new settlement units and Palestinian problems.

It has been many weeks since my last issue, but I have included only the more recent articles here.

Sincerely,

Arthur S. Obermayer

• "No should be no", Baltimore Sun, April 8, 2005
• "Ranch Dressing: President Bush is right to rejoin the Mideast peace process and uphold the terms of his road map", Houston Chronicle, April 12, 2005
• Jackson Diehl, "Sharon's Gamble Rides on Bush", Washington Post, April 11, 2005
• Hadi Jawad, "Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process: Bumps on the 'road' It's the settlements", San Francisco Chronicle, April 12, 2005
• David Akov, "Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process: Bumps on the 'road' It's the violence", San Francisco Chronicle, April 12, 2005
• "Freeze this settlement", Washington Post, March 26, 2005

Gaza Pullout

• Trudy Rubin, "Bush's words of support are not enough", Miami Herald, April 17, 2005'
• Jim Hoagland, "Balancing Act in Gaza", Washington Post, April 14, 2005

Palestinian Problems

• M.J. Rosenberg, "Getting over Yasser Arafat: A struggle for Congress", Chicago Tribune, April 13, 2005
• Charles A. Radin and Sa'id Ghazali, "Backing seen weakening for Abbas", Boston Globe, April 5, 2005
• Jeff Halper, "A Palestinian prison-state?", Boston Globe, April 11, 2005