VOL. XLIV

No. 20

14 May 2001

The Political Scene

The commission appointed last October by President Clinton to investigate the causes of the al-Aqsa intifada has now given its report to the Israelis and Palestinians, together with its recommendations for ending the continuing violence in the occupied territories.

Mitchell Reports

As hopes faded that the recent Egyptian-Jordanian initiative can end the violence in the occupied territories after an Egyptian-Jordanian summit in Sharm al-Shaikh on 6...