February/March 2003

Volume XXXXIX No. 2

ARTICLE: FOUR VIEWS ON MIDDLE EAST POLICY 2 Dissent in the North American Jewish Community • Michael Benazon 5 Only Resolve is Respected • Mark Silverberg 11 Gracious Dialogue • Wallace Greene 13 Anatomy of an Illusion: The Israeli-Palestinian Two-State Solution • Eric L. Rozenman ESSAY 19 From Damascus to Jenin • Elliott A. Green 22 Protecting B’Tselem’s Righteousness • Gabriel Danzig ISRAEL 25 The American-Israeli Relationship in the Lebanon and Gulf Wars • David Rodman MIDRASH 28 Genesis 9:12-17 — “Look to the Rainbow” So Why Did The Sages Say “Don’t Look?” • Lippman Bodoff ARTS AND LETTERS 31 On Shylock: A Reassessment of Shakespeare’s Tragic Jew • Allen A. Lang 34 Jewish Performers and Composers • George Jochnowitz FICTION 36 The Once and Future Queen • Linda Weiser Friedman POETRY 10 In The Market (a segment from “A Captive of Jerusalem”) • Rena Lee 12 Rebekah, the Womb and Paradise • Mel Belin 18 The Worst Thing • Eric L. Rozenman 33 Isaac’s Hand • Alyssa A. Lappen 46 Esther Ha-Malkah • Yehuda Khaver BOOKS AND AUTHORS 40 Islam and Dhimmitude: Where Civilizations Collide, by Bat Ye’or • Paul Fenton 42 Ladies and Gentlemen, the Original Music of the Hebrew Alphabet, and Weekend in Mustara, by Curt Leviant • Morris Moskowitz; Arnold Ages 44 Fake-City Syndrome: American Cultural Essays, edited by Kate Gale and Charles Rammelkamp • Jack Fischel LETTERS TO THE EDITOR