YEAR IN REVIEW 5748 YEAR IN REVIEW

"I'm willing to talk peace,
but there aren't any Palestinians to talk peace with!"

ISRAEL'S POLICY of beatings to quell the Palestinian uprisings
was excoriated in the international press, typified by this editorial
cartoon by Paul Conrad in the Los Angeles Times.

`THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST' was the focus of intense controversy when the Martin Scorsese
film opened this summer despite widespread protests and boycotts from Christian fundamentalists, some of
whom sought to blame Jewish businessmen for the film's release. William Dafoe portrayed a very human
Jesus.

MEDIA

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1988

TED KOPPEL took ABC-TV's "Nightline" to Jerusalem for a week,

dramatizing and elucidating the conflict between Jews and
Palsestinians and offering television at its best.