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31. Rabin, interview, Jerusalem Post International Edition, week ending Oct. 16, 1993. Usher, MEI, Jan. 6, 1995.
32. Derek Brown, Manchester Guardian Weekly, lead story, Oct. 1; John Battersby, CSM, Sept. 28; Ethan Bronner, BG, Sept. 28; R.W Apple, NYT Sept. 29; David Shribman, BG, Sept. 29; editorial, WP weekly, Oct. 2-8; Reuters, BG, Nov. 5, FT Nov 6; Serge Schmemann, NYT Nov. 5; Clyde Haberman, NYT Nov. 6, 1995; Glenn Frankel, WP weekly, Nov. 27-Dec. 3; Stephen Howe, NS, Nov. 17,1995.
33. Barzilai, Ha’aretz, Oct. 24, 1995.
34. For documentation, see chapter 3 and references of note 12, this chapter.
35. Loren Jenkins, WP, Apr. 17; Glenn Frankel, WP, Apr. 18, 20; Robert Pear, NYT Apr. 19, 1988.
36. Sciolino, NYT, Nov. 6, 1995.
37. Kifner, NYT, Apr. 23, 1988. See chapter 8, and, for more detail, Necessary Illusions.
38. Ibid., citing NYT, Apr. 6, 8, 1988.
39. Serge Schmemann,NYT Nov. 5; Baram, Graham Usher, MEI 3 Nov. 1995.
40. David Shribman, Peter Canellos, BG, Nov. 5,1995.
41. Kristol, WSJ, Dec. 13, 1973. Lloyd George quoted by V.G. Kiernan, European Empires from Conquest to Collapse (Fontana, 1982), 200. Churchill, Andy Thomas, Effects of Chemical Warfare (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute [SIPRI]; Taylor & Francis, 1985), chapter 2. For quotes, see my Turning the Tide (South End, 1985), 126; Deterring Democracy, chapter 6. For some Theodore Roosevelt samples, see David Stannard, American Holocaust (Oxford 1992) and Finkelstein, Rise and Fall. Peretz, p. 199.
42. Laqueur, NYT Magazine, Dec. 16, 1973. Wheat prices, Emma Rothschild, ibid., Mar. 13, 1977. Wisse, Commentary, May 1988; Janet Tassel, “Mame-Loshn at Harvard,” Harvard Magazine, July/Aug. 1997.
43. For a sample from a broader spectrum, including the left, see Necessary Illusions, 315f.; Towards a New Cold War, chapter 8.
44. Bar-Illan, director of Communications and Policy Planning in the office of the Prime Minister, interview with Vidor Cygielman, Palestine-Israel Journal (Summer/Autumn 1996). Among his other noteworthy observations is that Lebanon “has been able to attack us and make our lives intolerable for more than 15 years,” a statement that might not be easy to match in the annals of apologetics for state terrorism.
45. Bill Freund, The Making of Contemporary Africa (Bloomington: Indiana, 1984), 270. For further discussion of the Bantustan model, see Reinhart and Benvenisti, op cit., and Norman Finkelstein, “Whither the ‘Peace Process’,” New Left Review 218, July-Aug. 1996.
46. Asher Davidi, Davar, Feb. 17; Michael Yudelman, “Labor government ready to take on Labor unions,” JP, Nov. 26, 1993. Ya’akov Yona, “The Peace Process as an Obstacle to Employment,” Ma’ariv, Jan. 19, 1996. On the use of transfer threats to undermine labor organizing, accelerating since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) agreement with Mexico (illegal, but “tolerated” by the administrations from Reagan through Clinton), see Cornell University labor economist Kate Bronfenbrenner, “We’ll Close,” Multinational Monitor, March 1997, based on the study she directed: “Final Report: The Effects of Plant Closing or Threat of Plant Closing on the Right of Workers to Organize.” The study, conducted under NAFTA rules in response to labor complaints of violations (upheld after a long delay but with trivial penalties, as is the norm), was authorized for release by Canada and Mexico, but delayed by Clinton’s Labor Department.
47. See Ronen Bergman and David Ratner, “The Man who Swallowed Gaza,” Ha’aretz Supplement, Apr. 4; David Hirst, “Shameless in Gaza,” Guardian Weekly, Apr. 27; Judy Dempsey, “Poor pickings in Gaza for Palestinian entrepreneurs,” Financial Times, May 3/4, reviewing also Israeli economic sabotage; “The Netanyahu Government will pay the PLO about [$1.5 billion] a year,” Nekuda, April 1997. David Bedein, “So much for promises,” JP, Feb. 4, 1996.
48. IMF, David Gardner, FT. Mar. 7, 1997. UNRWA, Reuters, NYT, May 27; Peter Kiernan, MEI, June 27, 1997.
49. Gabriel Kolko, Main Currents in American History (Pantheon, 1984), p. 47.
50. Dayan, Herzog, quoted from internal discussion in Beilin, Mehiro shel Ihud, p. 42.
51. See World Orders, Epilogue, citing Report on Israeli Settlement, March 1996; Chronology, Palestine-Israel Journal, Summer/Autumn 1996. Nadav Shragai, Ha’aretz, Mar. 3, 1997. Beilin, quoted by Tikva HonigParnass, News from Within, April 1997. See also Kollek, in cited note 22, this chapter.
52. See World Orders, Epilogue and section 10.2 for some major elements.
53. Aluf Ben,Ha’aretz, Feb. 7, 1995. For information and background, see Israel Shahak, Ideology as a Central Factor in Israeli Policies (Hebrew), May-June 1995.
54. Kaddoumi, interview, Frontline (India), May 30, 1997, at the NonAligned Foreign Ministers Conference in New Delhi. El-Abayad, Embassy of Egypt in Washington, letter, National Interest, Summer 1997.
55. Yossi Melman, “Dunam after Dunam amounts to a Billion,” Yom Rishon, Apr. 20, 1997.
56. Avi Shlaim, op cit., p. 491, citing Israeli state archives.
