November/December — 2005

Volume LI No. 6

EDITORIAL 2 End-of-Year Note to Our Readers • Leo Haber ISRAEL 4 The Israeli Withrawal from Gaza: Pre-History and Prospects for Peace • Barry Rubin 8 Thoughts on Hanukkah: The Jewish Wars of Liberation • David Rodman 11 Do Mainline Protestants Want to Supersede Israel? • Abraham Cooper/Harold Brackman 17 The Speech that a Survivor of a Suicide Bombing in Israel Was Not Permitted to Deliver • Tzippi Cohen ARTICLE 19 On Hamas “Freedom-Fighters”: The View From International Law • Louis René Beres ESSAY 21 Svengali, Another Byword in the Lexicon of Jewish Villainy • Milton Kerker 24 Discovering Oneself: Kabbalah and Psychoanalysis • Stanley Schneider/Joseph H. Berke 28 Freud’s Jokes...and Jewish Problem • Harold Ticktin FICTION 31 The Little Bear • Richard L. Liboff REVIEW ESSAY 33 America Has Been Good to the Jews • Leonard Dinnerstein 36 Joseph Tenenbaum’s Unique Memoir • Arnold Ages POETRY 10 In The Snow With Horses (For Robert Marchand, Chi Kung Teacher) • Morissa Lou Williams 18 A Season Of Skinny Candles • Marge Piercy 20 The Evil Spirit And My David • Rena Lee 30 Adam At One • Mark Budman 35 My Lost Aunt • Si Wakesberg 38 Dandelions Grow At Dachau • Gerald Bosacker 44 Chanukah • Julia Watts Belser BOOKS AND AUTHORS 39 Survival in Shanghai • George Jochnowitz 41 Promising Too Much, or Seeking in the Wrong Place? • Joel Streicker 43 A Comprehensive Overview • Gilbert Rosenthal INDEX 45 Midstream Index 2005 — Volume LI