Essays published by Helena Cobban in Boston Review
since early 2002
Please note that nearly all of these articles contain considerable amounts
of material from interviews and other information gained during on-the-spot
reporting trips, as well as analysis and reflections:
- this one
, Nov-Dec 2006, on the 33-day war between Israel and Hizbullah
- this one
, May-June 2006, on the January '06 Hamas electoral victory and its possible
consequences
- this one
, Jan-Feb 2006, which was part of a broad forum on
Exiting from Iraq
- this one
, April/May 2005, on the history and current standing of Hizbullah
- this one
, spring '04, on Gaza and Sharon's plan to disengage from it
- this one
, late '03, on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
- this one
describes a late-2002 visit to Syria
- this one
describes encounters in Israel and Palestine in Summer 2002
- this one
, spring '02, explored post-genocide issues and policies in Rwanda.
(In the following issue, Ken Roth and Allison Des Forges
challenged
my reasoning, and I got to
respond
.)
- this one
, late 2001, argued the case against a binational-state outcome in Israel/Palestine.
This was a contribution to a broader discussion in that issue. My
views later evolved.
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